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Hi Jerry. It's good to connect with you today. Same here. I want to talk about membership and ownership. These are two concepts that you and I talk a lot about in our conversations. And I want to just toss out the understanding of membership in the language of consciousness. You know that I do a lot of work with the technologies of consciousness. And in terms of full consciousness, membership is something that rises when we bring awareness into what's called relational intelligence. So when we're aware of our connections with the world, when we're sensing the world, we are in relational consciousness, there's a natural rising of a sense of membership. And you can see this when you take people to other cultures. And people in other cultures are much more friendly than we are. And the sights and sounds and smells are very exciting. And people start to feel their environment. They suddenly feel at home like they belong. And they can't quite explain it. But if you've ever been in one of these situations, you know that when you start to feel that sense of membership, your entire world view changes. What you value changes. How you interact and exchange with other people. That begins to change. And in the world we're in right now, people in general, modern cultures are very linear. They're not really feeling the world. They're following internal strategies. And this has had a huge impact on how we live and relate.  Yeah, it's funny because economy and ecology both come from the same root word, oikos, which is the management of the household. The household itself. And the earth as our household or just our household. And somehow we've broken way far away from that. And we've managed to create what George W. Bush was explicitly calling an ownership society. This was a big good thing that he was selling. He said everybody should have a house, everybody should have all these kinds of things. At this point, past 2008, we're busy trying to unwind the global financial debacle. Now we're moving right into a student loan crisis because there's apparently a trillion dollars worth of student loan debt out there that's waiting to burst.  There's all these strange things about the ownership society that we've been not only sold, but we've somehow managed to export to the rest of the world. So much of the world sees the U.S. as a role model. And back in the 80s, they thought we were all like the drama series Dallas. Now they all think we're like friends or Seinfeld or something else who actually knows. But this whole notion of buying and owning things separate from everybody else outside of the neutrality is now pervasive in many different places and changing cultures worldwide. So I think this is, it's very deeply rooted. We have managed to consumerize not just consumer packaged goods, but every sector of society. And I love what you say about membership because I think we're trying to find our way back to it. So what does it mean? Well, what membership means, let me start by saying a little bit about what it isn't, the state of ownership. When we put out on a global scale that having things, owning things has primary value, you know, we've spread that cultural idea around the world. It drives people to focus on the thing, on the physical thing, on having, on competing with other people. So we begin to push other people away and we try to climb to the top of the pile. And so you cannot possibly have membership. In terms of consciousness, let's come back. So in other words, our ownership societies are actually changing our state of consciousness. So membership technically is a state in which you belong to something bigger instead of having everything belong to you. So it's turning this paradigm of I've got to have it inside out. And could you belong to your community? Do you belong to the earth? And it's literally a different state of consciousness where awareness is active in a whole different part of the brain, and it's driving different behaviors and different connectivities. So membership is collectivity, it's collaboration. You give because you're going to receive instead of just taking, taking, taking, which is what we do. There are so many delicious ironies here because in consumerist society, the thing that most people hunger for is a sense of connection to something bigger. Hello. We've managed to cut that thing away. We've managed to tear it down and it's right there. It's right there if you start seeing the world a little bit differently.


SEGA DRUNK! Here's a weird one, it's Cosmic Spacehead for Sega Genesis, a remake of an NES game Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade. And this one also came out for DOS, the Amiga, Game Gear, and Master System, and this game is just odd all around. It's made by Codemasters, so it got one of those weird cartridge shapes on Genesis and Mega Drive anyway, and in PAL regions it was later paired with another Codemasters game on the same cartridge, Fantastic Dizzy. Cosmic Spacehead starts out as one of those oddball point and click adventure games, and you just kind of figure stuff out on your own as you go. You use the D-pad to move the cursor around the screen, which is always kind of goofy on a console game, but it works well enough here. And there's five actions at a time to choose from, and you pick up items, talk to people, mess with your surroundings, and figure out what the hell is going on. You play as this little guy from the Planet Linolium, yes, Planet Linolium, who accidentally crashes into this new alien planet he's never heard of called Earth. He makes his way back home and nobody believes this crock about this crazy new planet he's found, so you gotta head back to Earth, this time with a camera ready to provide sufficient proof for your people back home. The problem is, you don't have a way of going back, you don't have a camera, and you don't have any money. You start out in this area on Linolium, select the pick up option, and pick up these two things lying here, a Lino Dollar and a Teleki. You proceed to the left, and suddenly you're in a platforming stage, yep that's right, you don't just magically end up in new areas, you have to earn your way there by platforming and dodging enemies, and I'll expand on that more a bit later. You make it to the new area, and hey here's a slot machine, might as well spend this dollar I found. Sweet, fifty more dollars. Talk to this guy over here who mentions a bumper car race, but you need a drivers license to compete and you don't have one. From there you head over to the post office, get some pictures taken, and get a passport which unlocks the next area.  This game is just a little weird, and slightly unintuitive, so you really gotta try anything and everything in order to proceed with the game. To add to the bizarre nature here, once you receive your drivers license, your name on it is Larry Flint? Larry Bleepin' Flint?  What is with this game? That's something you'll be saying throughout Cosmic Spacehead, for better and for worse. For one thing, this may seem like a random mashup of two different genres, point and click adventure and platforming, but they fit together really well. So beyond the game's humor and style, this game is definitely unique in that sense as well.   If you can't kill anything, that's fine, really. But if the game has such lousy platforming that it doesn't give you an adequate opportunity to avoid enemies, then that's a problem. You do at least have plenty of chances to earn extra lives by collecting 10 of these Cosmic Candy things, and they're pretty easy to get, so the game is at least forgiving in that sense, and there is a password system here as well. In addition, certain areas have teleport keys that allow you to bypass the platforming sections so you don't have to go through them every time to return to a previous area. Now this game may sound boring to some of you, but there are some things that make it worthwhile. For instance, the visual style is unlike any other game I've seen. It's like some kind of proto-invader-zim thing going on, just with the colors and how it's drawn. Also the dialogue here is so strange, it's this unironic 90s style humor, or maybe not, I can't even tell if certain lines are jokes or not, this whole game just has such a strange vibe to it, it almost reminds me of something like Earthbound in a way. There's also minigames that pop up here and there that help add to the confusion, like the bumper car race, and there's also a two-player minigame called Pie Slap, with the same overhead view with four different maps where you just go around trying to hit each other with pies. Sure, okay. Anyway, Cosmic Space Head is a tough one to review, and it's hard to know whether or not to recommend it, because it's like, I kinda wish everyone could play this at least once just to see how weird it is, but on the other hand there's a lot of sitting around waiting for enemies to get out of the way, a lot of confusion, and a lot of instances where you're just saying, what the hell? This is how games earn cult audiences, because this game certainly isn't for everyone, but are you part of that cult audience? There's only one way to find out, and that's to play this game for yourself. I think it's worth trying out at least once.


Hi, you guys. Welcome back to another first impression video. We are looking forward to spring. The Big Five has started to release their early spring collections. And today, they released the NOMI new pattern collection. So we are gonna go take a look at that. If I can find my way there. Shop the early spring, this is us. Okay, great, yeah. So we're looking at NOMI patterns early spring. If you're new here, this is the video series where I take a look at all of the patterns in a particular collection. And I'm just gonna kind of give you the thoughts that kind of jump to mind. We're gonna talk about fit if it comes up, fabrication of course, different options for fabrics and just things that pop in my head as I look through the patterns. NOMI is one of those pattern companies that's particularly unique because all of the designers are like makers and creators themselves. They're not necessarily pattern designers and they are also the ones who are modeling their own patterns. So when I'm coming to look at NOMI, I'm realizing that A, this is not a professional model and that is fine. B, they probably made their own sample. So that does give me, I do play closer attention to fit. Let's just say that. So NOMI is always fun to look at though because I feel like these people are us, right? It's like they're making the clothes that we want to wear. And I end up loving them a lot. They end up being like a little bit kind of on the edge a little bit and I think that's really fun. All right, so first up we have Brittany J. Jones, her Mrs. and Women's romper and jumpsuit. It is a notched collar romper and jumpsuit with an elastic back casing, side pockets, front fly zipper and tie belts. Sizing options are 10 to 18 and then 20 to 28. Okay, interesting size range here. I love how the Mrs. goes to 18. That's sort of rare, I think. But we're still only getting five sizes per pattern envelope. So it's still not their full women's range, but it's also not their full Mrs. range. You know, you're missing six and eight. But it's pretty close. We will look at what the garment measurements are as we get to that page there just to see exactly what the sizing means. But there's our gorgeous cover. Cute bright spring colors is getting me very excited. As the description said, it's a notched collar kind of like wrap style. I think it has a drop shoulder. Actually, I think it's a grown on sleeve. I don't know, this print is so wild. It's hard to tell. Line drawings will help. It does look like we have a bit of a slant pocket here. And then the knee length option. We have a center front seam, maybe, but not up here. Yeah, I'm gonna need to see the line drawings like sooner rather than later. Let's take a look, see if that helps at all. So I think what's happening, is it grown on? Did it say anything about sleeves? It didn't. Okay, so I think it's a Dolman sleeve. I don't think that's a seam right there. I think that's just like a fold. So grown on sleeve, so interesting. And then it wraps. It must have like a hook or a button or something in here. And then there's also still a fly and a zipper so that you can open it up all the way down. What a cute concept. Wow, my mind is like kind of just going. And then we also have, it looks like pleats here. And then this is just gathered because of the belt. And then there's elastic back here. Okay, I'm glad I looked at those soon because that's really helping. So, well now this doesn't look like there's any pleats. So maybe it's just all gathered up with this belt. What an interesting concept. Now she's using some kind of stable weight fabric, maybe even some kind of denim. My mind is going to lighter weight fabrics to get all the drape of this really cool sleeve that she designed. Fit-wise it looks really, really good on her. If I'm nitpicking just a little bit, I'm just gonna say there's a little bit of extra fabric in the thigh.  And nobody would ever notice that but people who so. Plus, if I ever saw her like in person in this, I'm not zeroing in on her inner thigh. So you'd probably never notice it. But this is the back with it has that elastic casing. So it does kind of control the gathers, which I really appreciate.  And then yeah, you can see here the top shoulder seam for the Dolman sleeve. Yeah, there's a little, the pocket is pulling away from the body a little bit. It doesn't seem to me like that's because it doesn't fit. It seems to be a result of having all the gathers at the waistline possibly or even just having all the gathers in the back. Cause the side seam is, well, it might be a little bit angled toward the back. It's hard to tell what this like angle that she's standing at, but, or it could have just stretched out too while she was sewing it. I'm really not getting the vibe that it's like being pulled and strained and that's why it's pulling away from the body. Okay, that's it. We get those few pictures. Okay, so chambray cotton blends and linen blends. I think too, now we've talked about this almost every new season, we talk about the fabric suggestions that they make are based on the season that they're releasing the patterns in, which is for this one is early spring. So they're gonna be making them out of fabrics that are a little bit more stable, a little bit more warm than they would if the same exact pattern were released in the summer, for example, but that doesn't mean you can't make them out of summer, lightweight fabrics, fall, you know, corduroy's and stuff like that or even like winter, like super stiff, like denim or, you know, whatever it is that you would be wearing in the winter, maybe like a stable knit, like a sweatshirt fleece or something. I don't know, I'm thinking way outside the box here, but so even though they just gave us these three, I, again, I'm gonna go back to the fact that I want something where this little drape of the sleeve is really gonna be able to shine. So something a little bit draper, the linen blend might provide that.  So we do have the nine inch zipper and we have some buttons. That must be for the inside to hold it, to hold the wrap down and then some elastic for the back. Here are our sizes. So the body measurement chart goes up to a 50 inch waist, no, sorry, 50 inch bust. The waist is negligible really because of that elastic and then the hip goes up to 52 with seven inches of ease. So pretty roomy in the hip. You shouldn't have to worry about that too much. Seven inches does feel like a very full hip. I'm not seeing seven inches on her right at her full hip. It seems pretty close fitting. Like I was gonna guess, I don't know, three, four, not really getting seven, but maybe she sized down or did some greeting or something like that. All right, so off to a great start. I am obsessed with jumpsuits these days. I just think that they are gonna become a staple in my wardrobe and you're gonna see me in them a lot. Now we have Lydia Naomi's pattern. This is a shirt dress, cargo shirt dress with slightly oversized fit has rounded shirt tail hems, patch pockets with flaps, top stitching and center back box pleat. Okay, and another pink. I think they must have been making these whenever Barbie was like having its moment. Okay, so this is woven, right? Did they, they didn't say knit. Look how interesting this back is. That is really so cool. So another notched collar. This one has a set in sleeve. It looks beautiful. The shoulder length is just long enough for this little baby sleeve cap that she has. And there's a bit of a fold here, but it's not for it being too small. It actually might be just too much fabric in here. We'd have to see her raise her arms to see how low the arm side is, but this from here up looks great. And then we have the yoke with the cool pocket design and then another angled seam with another angled flat pocket. Yeah, she did all the contrasting hem, but the back of this thing, wow, that is so cool. Yeah, let's take a closer look. Yep, the yoke with like the flat felt seam, then this beautiful little box pleat that's stitched into the kind of like low waist seam. Yeah, super, super cute. It's not super fitted anywhere. It's pretty relaxed. And I think that's kind of trending in fashion really, is to not have things be so tight. I think it's kind of like fit and flare. Like we're not really seeing that much lately. Okay, so here's the back. We're gonna do chambray, cotton blends, lightweight denim, linen blends, poplin, shirtings, stretch wovens and twill. Yeah, that pretty much runs the gamut of the mid-weight wovens, right? And then this is eight to 16 and then 18 to 26 on the size range. Finish garment measurements. Gosh, I would base it probably off of my hip because that's the largest part of me. And so the hip goes from 39 and a half up to 56. Another really cute one. That one will be memorable too. It's just these, I always say basics with a twist, right?  Okay, here is Alicia Grace's overalls. Now, truth be told, she's very active on social media and I follow her. And so I've seen sneak peeks of these already. This is not the first time I've seen them, but I did pay attention to how I felt and how I reacted the first time that I saw them. And so I will try and make sure I include some of that here. But this says, a modern take on the classic. This overall features a flare leg with side panel, kangaroo pocket detail, mock fly front and adjustable straps. View B has contrast front pocket and side panels. Only variation from view A. So that's the only difference, I think is what she means by that. And I do remember thinking when I saw this the first time that this bib felt really wide. Normally the bib of an overall is really barely just outside of your bust apex or like, I guess where your nipples are. And so if I made this, I would wanna take it in by, I don't know, an inch on each side, just the littlest bit. So it's not so much covering up the whole body. I will say, I do think it's super interesting how if you look at these from afar, it looks like this, the solid blue part is the pant. And then this part kind of disappears, which gets me thinking about using contrast in a very, very different way. Like if we did denim or chambray or twill or whatever for this and then did some kind of like drapey situation or even like a lace or a see-through, sheer, mash something. It's making me feel like, I don't know, this is just like a playground for like how to mix fabrics cause you're still getting lots of coverage from the front. Granted, your whole side body would be exposed, but you know, there's ways to deal with that, right? So yeah, I think that that is how I would try and make this take, like put a spin on it for myself. But in and of itself, it's a pretty risky garment, right? Are we only gonna get that one photo? Oh no, what is happening? Okay, hold on. They're just putting those up sooner, I guess. Okay. I think it also helps this like dark denim that she used, you can see her top, whereas the other one you can't. And I think that that really helps in overalls too to kind of show that there is like a background to the overalls and it's not just swaddling up your entire body. Hands in pocket pose. So I'm not gonna really assess the fit through the low hip, although it does look good even with her hands in her pockets. I think it's a pretty generous ease and generous fit. And it was kind of hard to see this dark denim though. And then yeah, again, the panel just gives this super, super interesting leg. It's not quite flare, it's not wide leg, it's something all to itself. See how she looks naked here underneath? I know she has a top on, but well, I don't know, but I'm assuming she has a top on. And it kind of just makes your eye only look at this bib and her body kind of disappears and I wanna make sure I can see her body and look at her pretty face and all that. Okay, here's the back. First time I've seen the back and it has a traditional bib. Yeah, super interesting. Now we are getting some wrinkles and folds here, which means that this part is too long for her. And length is one of those things that even if you're grading patterns between sizes, if you're not checking length, then you're missing like half the equation. The waist band does seem to be at her waist, maybe a little bit low. I think her natural waist is around here somewhere, but this could easily be adjusted by just adjusting the straps. So it's not even really like a mistake. I just think, I don't know, she didn't adjust the straps to fit her back. I'd have to be taking a look at the front and the back and everything altogether to see if there's a bigger fit issue here. I don't think so. I just think the straps weren't adjusted properly. And then another full length, so you can see the leg. And you can see this side panel, how wide that is on the side. Okay, and those are the only pictures that we are gonna get. Okay, good, I'm glad we got the back. So chambray, corduroy, cotton blends, denim linen blends and twill. Yeah, I mean, even looking at these line drawings here, that is just, it's getting my mind racing. Whereas the last pattern and even Brittany's pattern, I'm like, yep, make it as is, got it, good. This one, I'm like, what could I do to make this really cool and fun and unique? And something where people are like, whoa, where did you get those? Like think about like crocheted side panels. Something really out there. I hope that you guys aren't like, you know, thinking I'm crazy and instead you're getting inspired. But yeah, that's where my mind is going with these. Okay, we do have an eight to 16 and 18 to 26 size range. I think that was what was so interesting about Brittany's sizing is that it was a Mrs. and women's pattern, but we only got one more size on the plus size, on the women's side. So I think that was why I was like, oh, that doesn't really feel like women's to me. That feels like Mrs. Plus. Okay, so this is super generous throughout. I guess I would base it off of my waist measurement, which the wastes go from 28 and a half to 45. And it looks like there's four inches of ease in the waist. So nice, comfy, loose situation. For the record, there's also 18 inches of ease at the full hip. And so it gets even bigger. Alicia, I think you killed this one. This one is really getting me very excited and certainly will be memorable, which matters. These days I'm buying patterns. I don't go to Joanne anymore and look through the books. I just get what I remember. I'm going in the store and I'm like, yep, I'm gonna get Brittany's, I'm gonna get Alicia's, I'm gonna, you know what I mean? I go through them that way. And then that's it. If I forget, sometimes it's my bad, but most of the time it's, I usually leave behind what things I didn't really want anyways. Okay, now we have Sins of Minnie, his men's vest. Cute. He always has the biggest smile. Love that. Lined front wrap vest has contrast shawl collar welt pockets, inside button closure and back elastic for movability. Shorts have elastic waist with fly front and belt loops, contrast side panel and back welt pockets. See, I missed that there was a vest and shorts. Okay, so a take on, you know, a summer tuxedo, right? Like it's everything but the jacket and the bottom of the pants. What a fun take on men's wear, I think. I'm trying to think of the men that I have in my sewing classes. None of them are quite this stylish. So I don't know that they would go for it, but I would try. I would try very hard. We have the contrast shawl collar. We have a little welt pocket and then we have our shorts. Now, I don't go into detail on fit for men very much because I just don't understand men's anatomy as it relates to fit and pants is one of those things. Like if this were a woman's, a woman wearing a short, I would be like, oh my gosh, look at all these drag lines but I don't know, do they need that? I don't know how it all works, okay?  Instead, I'm just gonna talk about how cute it all looks, which it all definitely, definitely does. Yeah, he put the elastic in the back here. I do kind of wish this were higher and I kind of think that the little, like, you know how most tuxedo vests have that little like slider thing, I don't think it would have been that hard to put that on there and just really take that inspo all the way. And then yeah, we've got our belt loops, the welt pockets are contrast again. Oh, and there's even contrast on the side. Again, another nod to the tuxedo. I get it, I see exactly what you're doing. I'm following you all the way, got it, all the way. Okay, so, yeah, even the line drawings are super cute. I kind of think if you made this for a woman, it would be super cute. You might have to swap out the shorts. Again, I don't fully understand if men's patterns are drafted differently, especially when they're fitted. I don't know how all that works. And then same thing for here, like would you want something that had more room for like boobs? I don't know, but the idea, you could definitely translate to other vest and shorts patterns if this one wouldn't work for some reason. All right, so our fabrics are cotton blends, gabardine linen blends, seersucker stretch wovens and twill lining cotton blends, polyester blends and then interfacing. Okay, and then notions, we need buttons, elastic, a zipper and more buttons. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't say suiting. I guess some of these would be suiting, but I would for sure look at suiting. I would for sure look at like, even like wool. Was wool listed? No, because it's early spring. How cool would it be with like a wool vest and then like a trouser? I don't know, maybe not. Maybe I should stick to women's wear. I'm more confident there. Let me go find something I know what I'm talking about. And then we have Donnie Q, who now his pattern from the last collection is one of those that I distinctly remember. I absolutely adored it and fell in love with it and fell in love with him. So I'm excited to see what he brings now and continues to bring. I'm really glad they brought him on board. So this is a men's jacket and vest. It's a rain jacket. That's a combination of a crop jacket and a vest. Cool. Crop jacket attaches to vest with snaps along the front. It can be worn together or separately. Boxy fit jacket features hood with visor. I'm wondering what that means. Drop shoulder and front snap closure. Vest has front zip closure, includes zipper patch pockets and two sizes of cargo pockets with flaps. Wow, a lot is happening here. So we have these snap away cropped jacket. And I get that most guys aren't gonna wear a crop jacket, but again, if I could talk them into it, I would because look how cool this looks. It just looks color blocked. It doesn't actually look like a cropped jacket. There's another jacket right here. Then you have all these flaps, all these like 3D pockets. You know how they like stand away from the body? Same thing here. And then here's our vest. It does feel a little bit skimpy right here where the like the neckline, I think it's just turned under. I kind of wish there was like a better application for that either, I don't know, a band or a collar or not a collar, a band or a bias binding or something like that to make it just look a little bit more polished. But then you've got all of these pockets as well. You don't wanna wear this going to the movies because you could do like Eminem's right here and you could do pretzels over here and you get all your snacks and they would never know. Okay, yeah, here's a close up. Well, now that I said all that about this finish, it does look better closer than I thought it did. Maybe it's how the zipper stops right here. I'm trying to think on like ready to wear. Is that how it's, I feel like, I don't know, something about this is rubbing me in the wrong way. But this is where the jacket, the crop jacket snaps on. So you can see how that works. Does that bother you guys? Say if you just wear the vest, you can see the hardware and then look, you can just put your keys here. Wow, you really like would never need to carry anything again. Like a bag wise, you would just attach it to your body. Super cool. I also love how he never smiles. I can't help but smile when the camera turns toward me and I'm like, geez, drop shoulder, like he said. This is like an interesting arm shape as well, right? Doesn't it seem to like balloon out a little? And then it's very fitted down here. Oh, this is the hood with the visor. I wanna see that closer. Oh, in addition to this being an outer pocket, it's with a zipper. You can see it here.  Really no shortage of pockets here. Okay, that's it. That's all we're gonna see. So the visor thing, yeah, it looks like something right there is attached. That is super cool. Look at the pockets on the back. One's at an angle. So fun. So, so, so creative. All right, so coated fabrics, meaning not fabrics for coats, but fabrics that are coated with a coating, like to make them rain resistant or whatever. Nylon, water-resistant fabric, and washed, or sorry, waxed fabric. And then for the lining, I think instead of lining, they mean like the vest, I think. Or maybe there's both. And this really is lining. That would be cotton blends, flannel, fleece, polyester. And then a ton of notions. A ton of notions. I did wanna go see, yeah, the little visor thing. Now ladies, are we going to just make the cropped version and leave the vest behind? Are we all just gonna make this as a crop jacket, right? That's what we're doing, correct? Okay, just making sure. Okay, next, we have butte du jour, yes. Oh my gosh. Girls and Mrs. It's really no surprise. She has been making matchy, matchy clothes for her and her daughter for as long as I can remember. So I knew it wouldn't take long for her to convince them to let her release a combo pattern as part of No Me. Nothing like having mother and daughter time and stylus matching coats, slim fit coat features, double brusted closure, wide collar, epaulettes, welt pocket and sleeve band with button closure and belt. It's gonna be really hard to not just look at the girl jacket the whole time, but I am gonna try and look at mom's jacket. We do have this really amazing collar. Look how tall it is in the back. Then you have the like back flap thing, a belt, center back seam with a vent. I'm sure there's some pockets and stuff and it's double breasted, maybe no pockets. Oh wait, there's something there. The epaulettes she talked about. Oh, and then the sleeve detail too. Nice big cuff with a loop and everything. I mean, genuinely could not be any cuter. I do want more pictures. Let me look at the big line drawings. So yeah, we have some kind of detail here with the flap. This seems to be much more full than it appeared in the pictures. We also have welt pockets here, which I didn't even notice. And then the epaulettes are just a tap with a button. I mean, it's a serious trench coat. You know what I mean? This is not gonna just, you whip this up in a day. Especially if you're making two of them, one for you and one for your little. Cotton blends, lightweight wool blends, not linen blends and nylon and twill. And then lining is cotton blends, polyester blends. So you will need a bunch of buttons, a belt buckle and that's it. So it's not super expensive to make. The fabric requirements are for the 60 inch is four and a half yards.   Cause on trench coats, it can or any coat really, it can kind of start to add up. And then it is a coat. It's mostly oversized. So the finished garment measurements, they're not negligible, but they're not super, super important. We've got 10 inches in the bust and then 30, gosh, 15 in the waist and seven, I think in the hip. So very roomy. If you're petite, you could definitely size down. And I wonder, it goes to 14 in the girl's size range. That puts the finished chest at 40 inches. I wonder if people who are super petite, like let's say Mrs. eight and six sizes normally. I wonder, can you guys make the size 14? I've never thought of that before. I mean, it seems kind of weird to be making a quote unquote girls pattern, but I remember people when I was in high school or I remember to the Olsen twins, remember them? They were always like waist stylish for their age. And when they would do interviews people, they would tell people that they would buy women's clothing and have it sized down to their size. So kind of the same thing, but not, I don't know. Great jacket. I'm not gonna be making any more jackets in my lifetime. I don't think not any like traditional ones anyways. I just have plenty and I hardly wear them, but I do really enjoy looking at them. So, all right, Gwen Hang has made a dress. This is retro inspired dress. Has center front zipper, yoke with faux bustier outline. V neck, cap sleeve, princess panel and princess seams. Dress features of Florence Tim and a belted waist. So if you remember Gwen's pattern from last time, you're kind of starting to pick up on her whimsical kind of vibe. I don't know if it's intentional or not, but it definitely kind of toes the line for me between cosplay and fashion. It's always really fun, always really flirty, frilly, all of that kind of stuff. And so it's honestly like really fun to look at. And if you're someone who says, all sewing patterns look the same, then you need to look at Gwen's patterns because they don't look like anything you'll find in the stores, that's for sure. Not from this time period anyways. All right, so we have the V-neck with the zipper front. Princess seams that she's done, like it kind of kicks out like this. And so she's done it in contrast. And I'm 99% sure this is gonna be a pocket, which is super cool. You have this really thick belt, which is super fun. And then even in the back, it kind of cuts away. Then she's added this basically a full circle skirt to the bottom hem of this. Now she is a petite woman. So she's able to pull off these hip accents and this kind of like low, like super low-waisted kind of mermaid situation because she's wanting to add visual interest to her waist and hips. Someone like me, if I put this on, all you would just be like walking hips and butt.  It's all you would see. I think you could probably play around with that a little bit if you added this light blue color up here to the shoulder in some way. I don't know necessarily if it's the sleeve or if it's adding a color of it, but if you put more of this up here, your eye would go up to the lighter color. But it's really cute as it is for those of you who are ruler, like straight up and down or even inverted triangles would look really cute in this. And I really love the front exposed zipper. I've been seeing that around lately. I hope that that sticks around for a minute. Yep, okay. Here's the back. So chambray cotton blends, denim linen blends, stretch woven twill, again, all your mid-weight wovens. That's what we've been seeing consistently through this collection. We've got a exposed zipper buckle and some eyelets. And then six to 14 and 16 to 24 is the size range. I love that because she herself is petite, they're including the lower end of their size range. I think that that, I don't know if it's intentional because that's her demographic or if that's who they hope she brings in. I don't know, but she's petite but they have the petite sizes. I love that. Okay, finished garment, like ease-wise, we're looking at four inches in the bust, two inches in the waist with that belt though so you can make it smaller and four inches, three and a half, four inches in the hip. All makes perfect sense to me for this type of dress. I hope somebody also tries to make it without this little top part. How cute would it be as a, oh no, no line drawings as a strapless situation. I don't know, I just saw that just now and I was like, oh, that's really cute.  I don't know. Again, lots of fun things to do with the contrast panels. Okay, this is the stitch fits off the shoulder ruffle dress in two links with a lined bodice, boning at waist, sweetheart neckline with elastic, optional straps and invisible back zipper. Okay, so what we've seen from her so far is drape and ruffles. She likes lightweight fabrics. She likes drapey things. She likes ruffly things. So that's your vibe. You're gonna wanna pay attention to her for sure. This one's definitely giving me like Carnival Cruise, but the Disney version, right? So Disney Carnival Cruise. This is giving me Disney Princess, but like she goes on vacation to a resort somewhere, maybe even Spain, something along those lines. Really pretty, right? I do love the upper flout. So for those of us that are fuller in the hip and we would wanna draw our eye away from that, you put something really huge up here and your hips go away. I like the mini version with, I do will say I would probably prefer the straps. I'm curious to see if there's any notions in the list in terms of how are we keeping this thing up without the straps? Is there boning? Is there elastic? Like what's happening? There's also like, I think a lot of style lines in the skirt that might be a little bit hard to see from here. There's the back really pretty cute A-line silhouette, adjustable straps even. Okay, and then, so Charmous, crepe, silky types, soft cotton blends. Yeah, you could definitely even go into the world of eyelet. Like if you did the bodice in a solid color, probably white or nude, and then this whole flouncy thing in eyelet, then this skirt in the solid and then this in eyelet, or even like underline this part with the eyelet and the solid, you could definitely get away with using some sheer fabrics for these ruffles. That would be fun. Okay, so two yards of featherweight boning. Okay, great. Both views have the boning, FYI. I don't know that both of them need it, but both of them have it. And then elastic, an invisible zipper, probably on the side somewhere, a hook and eye, and a pair of strap sliders. Okay, so where is the elastic? I guess the elastic is in addition to the boning, which that's kind of nice. Six to 14, 16 to 24 on the size range. We've got three and a half inches of ease in the bust, one inch in the waist, okay, and then six, five and a half or six in the hip. Yeah, that feels fine. One inch in the waist on a drapey fabric feel, feels not great, especially when there's no belt or nothing to cinch it in. I don't know how I feel about that. But if I did add more, it would only be one inch, maybe like half to one and a half inches, but really pretty, really, really pretty for sure. That could also be the great jumping off point for a prom dress, if you want to consider that. Okay, we've got beaute de jure again. This is her second pattern. Okay, oversized button front shirt has drop shoulder sleeves, breast pocket and double layer cuffs. Hold on, we did this. This is her pattern from last time, never mind. That was the fall pattern. All of these are the fault. Wait, is that it? One, two, three, four, five, six, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. That's all we've got. No me, PDF, early spring. Okay, so the search function's not incredible or maybe they're not in PDFs, they're only a paper. Okay, gotcha. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. That's it. Dang. I hope that's not a sign of something bad in that people were just busy. I will say though, it's small, the collection, but it is mighty. I've enjoyed every single pattern. I might not end up needing to buy all of them, like for the jacket, for example, I'm not gonna make a trench coat, but I did enjoy them all for what they are. So that's good. That's a step in the right direction for big five for sure. Wow, okay, so yeah, just eight little patterns. Okay, it is what it is. I'm just surprised. Well, let me know. What did you guys think of the collection? Are you making any of these for your early spring wardrobe? If so, which ones? Did any of the ideas I threw out there spark some interest or inspiration? Did you come up with your own kind of unique ideas that you wanna share with the group? Do all of that in the comment section below. Otherwise, that's gonna do it for me and I'll see you all very soon. Bye.


Ok, so last week I did a video praising Bungie's step forward in storytelling, and the change back to the Destiny 1 weapon system, as well as there finally being a good amount of different content, means that the gameplay of Destiny 2 is in a pretty good place as its second year gets underway. But that certainly doesn't mean it's free of issues. There are, as with any game, a litany of small little nippics I can make, and I think it's fair to say Bungie has left far too many of these linger five years into a franchise, but we're not going to talk about that today. Instead, we're going to focus on just a couple of big, serious issues that still remain with the game, and these are big enough issues that if they were fixed, the game would be immensely more enjoyable to play. Also as a heads up coming in the next week or so, I will be having a video about Rise of the Tomb Raider and Spider-Man, and about how clunky progression systems and bad pacing can ruin otherwise good games, so be on look out for that. I will finally be taking the plunge soon with a video about immigration at the southern border, and one about the prohibition of drugs, gambling, and prostitution. Right from the start, I wanted to do videos about things other than games every so often, and I think it's time. I will keep those in a separate playlist if you're not interested, but overall these will be non-partisan looks at the issues, so if you have any interest at all on this kind of stuff, check it out. Alright, let's get back to bashing Destiny 2 after the logo. Bungie's Desperate Gambit Destiny 2 per se can continue as one of Bungie's greatest and most inexplicable problems, an inability to commit to precisely how social and multiplayer they want this game to be. This problem simply doesn't exist in other games of this nature because most developers fully commit to one or the other experience. Call of Duty is a multiplayer game but it doesn't rely on being a social game, because the gameplay experience doesn't require communication or socialization, the studios who make Call of Duty don't bother investing resources into fully fleshing those systems out. The game isn't an MMO, it doesn't have complex team-based mechanics. All modes can be thoroughly enjoyed with friends, or solo. The best multiplayer shooter of the last 10 years, Titanfall 2, doesn't require team strategies, it isn't an inherently social experience, and the gameplay itself doesn't really require communication, I mean of course it helps, but it's not required. A solo player can turn on Titanfall 2 and get the same experience as a group of people playing together. And reasonably, there are only very modest social systems in that game. There's a kind of clan system that's basically superfluous. But Bungie has created a game that absolutely requires a full, communicating team to complete some of the most compelling content and then did apps of fucking, lootily nothing to facilitate players finding other people to play with. As a result, you are left with the worst of both worlds. A shitty, frustrating solo experience, or a frustrating search for other people to play with. We will be addressing this problem from several angles today, but to start let's use one of the most heavily marketed and promising parts of this expansion. The first new mode Bungie has introduced since Trials of Osiris in Prison of Elders with the House of Wolves expansion 3 years ago. An innovative PvE-PVP blend called Gambit. Now Gambit is a really cool new mode that perfectly illustrates everything great and maddening about Bungie as a studio and Destiny as a game. Before I get to the pitching I want to really quickly praise some things that most players take for granted at this point. Destiny 2 is an absolutely beautiful game that performs amazingly well on console and on PC it looks just insanely good. The enemy design is absolutely great. The AI is extremely good and challenging and the animations of both the enemies and the players is something to behold.  Lots of games run at 30 FPS, but for reasons I don't understand and I'm unqualified to comment on Destiny 2 looks orders of magnitude smoother and more fluid than a game like Bloodborne that's running at the same frame rate. I've got a subscriber who's a game dev though I'm not sure they watched the Destiny videos but if you are watching explain this to me in the comments. The new Tomb Raider is running at 30 FPS and yet to my eye it is frustratingly choppy. Destiny 2 at 30 FPS is simply smooth as silk and of course the gunplay, sound effects, visual and particle effects are as good as ever. Shooting things and popping a super looks, feels and sounds amazing.  Yeah, I'm impressed by shiny things. Before I get to the crushing problems with this really cool new mode let me just get a couple of small nitpicks out of the way too. I think that enemy health is too high and boss health is too low, it just ends up being kind of annoying. They've fixed this everywhere else in the expansion, finally, but in Gambit regular mobs take way too many shots to kill. I'll say it for the 90th time, I would rather shoot 50 enemies once than one enemy 50 times. It just slows things down and encourages passive defensive play and getting to cover which is the opposite of everything that makes playing Destiny the FPS, a breath of fresh air. And I feel like bosses are melted way too quickly and probably have too few mechanics. Maybe it would have been better to have only one 15 minute match instead of breaking it up into rounds. As it stands now it doesn't feel all that satisfying fighting the boss at the end of the match. And as is to be expected in a new mode there are some balance problems with the PvP end of this thing and I'm looking at you sleeper simulant and the fact that invaders don't show up on your radar. But honestly, those things are small and that even if they didn't change it wouldn't really ruin the experience. But I'm quite positive that Bungie will be addressing sleeper simulant. It is absurd. Those are just things that could be tweaked to make the game even better. What can ruin the experience is the same thing that pops up all over Destiny 2 including several really annoying places here in Forsaken. Bungie's contempt for solo players and refusal to give those players in game tools to group up. We'll get into matchmaking problems in other places but to understand the problem here we need to get into what makes Gambit such a fun mode.  And if that's all the mode was then your average call of duty or Titanfall matchmaking system would be fine. But to Bungie's credit the game mode is surprisingly mechanics heavy. You don't just kill enemies. Very much like the bounty mode in Titanfall you need to kill enemies and deposit currency in a bank they're called moats here. But there's more than that. When you deposit higher amounts of moats you send more difficult enemies to the other side to prevent them from depositing moats.  But there's even more.  And they can see through walls and you can't see them.  And there's still more mechanics in the mode.  It is a really cool, really well designed mode that lends itself to all sorts of strategies and teamwork.  For some incomprehensible reason four solo players are often matched against full four man fire teams communicating on mics. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say often?  I had five straight matches at one point with four solo randoms against teams of four.  Now, even though Destiny 1 and, you know, a whole bunch of other smaller games have separate solo queues Destiny 2 launched with no separate queues for groups and solos.  Annoying but not game breaking because while communication can help in the regular Crucible modes it is in an insane almost insurmountable advantage in Gambit because of the way this mode is designed. Solo players have no way to coordinate subclasses.  They can't call out and time their supers. Invading players are invisible on radar and have a powerful over-shield meaning that team-shotting them is crucial. So finding the invader and calling out his location to teammates is all by itself a tremendous advantage. Gambit as a game mode is almost explicitly designed to give advantages to teams that are effectively communicating and coordinating with each other and this advantage is like nowhere else in Destiny's PvP ecosystem.  But here's the thing, when it's four randoms against four other random players or two teams of four against each other those advantages are stripped away and the mode is really cool and an amazing addition to the game. Something for Bungie to be proud of which makes it all the more disappointing because the player experience can be so good when the game is fair and so fucking miserable when one side has a huge advantage and I cannot stress this enough. In order to overcome the advantage that four players talking on mics have against four solo players the solo team would have to be considerably better players which brings us to the real problem here which as we'll see exists all over the game.  In this case, as is the case with raids it's not simply a matter of matchmaking. It's an in game LFG. One where players could go and browse for other players or teams who want to raid or play Gambit or do anything else. A tool that allowed for the fast and simple sending of messages. Preferably messages that didn't require opening two sub menus to read. An LFG where players could filter out by power level or experience or age or mics or no mics. The clunky LFG that currently exists outside of the game in a sub menu of a sub menu on their app isn't good enough because it's an annoying other step between players and the game. And the app might even be fine in most games but not in one that insists on having the majority of its very best content be based around heavy team focused mechanics. It remains very hard to understand. Now Bungie's obviously committed to these team based modes and yet they provide quite literally no in game tools to players.  There is no guild chat on console for some reason. I don't know why. Only recently was text chat on PC. It has no in game LFG, no optional area chat, nothing. Bungie wanted a game with heavy social mechanics but refused to risk anyone actually being social. And the game's problems have an awful lot to do with this. Warcraft makes players social because there are a myriad of in game ways for players to talk and text chat and group. They're simple, one click private chat, team chat, area chat, guild chat, trade chat, group chat, raid chat and matchmaking for almost everything in the game besides the very top tier in game activities which again players can use the highly functional in game LFG for. The extent of Bungie's in game communication tools is the ability to emote at other players. The studio has completely failed at this and as a result the vast, vast majority of their players have never played a raid. And the raids are, without doubt, Bungie's very best content and very possibly, no, in fact definitely the very best co-op multiplayer experience ever produced for consoles. They are meticulously designed, really, really interesting content. And rather than make that content as easy to access as possible, rather than give players a whole bunch of tools so that the only people who didn't raid were people who didn't like it, Bungie has given players zero, literally zero in game tools. For whatever reason it is now clear that an in game LFG is something that Bungie refuses to do, like nightfall matchmaking which we'll touch on later. But there are a host of other ways to make Gambit a reasonable experience without it. There could, of course, be separate cues for teams like in other games or failing that the matchmaking could wait team size first so that teams of four looked for other teams of four first and foremost before then searching for teams of three, two teams of two, a team of two and only after that four solo players. Or failing even that, Bungie could have a skill-based matchmaking system that conferred a significant skill advantage to the solo players. So a team of four would be matched with four solo players who were all better than they were. Something, anything to make this not be a problem. Instead, Bungie's response is to hint that players should try and group up with other players. Without, of course, giving players even one single in-game tool to accomplish that.  Next. The escalation of the Arkans well. When The Taken King launched, Bungie tried to implement fun, mechanics-heavy end-game type encounters on the patrol map. The basic idea and the encounters themselves were very cool.  Destiny 1 only had one landing spot on each planet, and Bungie decided to put the Court of Orcs in a different area of the map. What's worse is the way Destiny instances players is exceedingly annoying. You can be running with three people next to you, enter one of their seamless loading screens last matchmaking hallways, and watch those players disappear only to load into a completely empty zone. To make matters worse, that run through the hall is the matchmaking, so the faster you go, the less time the system has to put you in a lobby. And even worse than that is the opposite. The slower you go, the more time the system has, and the more likely you are to enter a lobby with other players. And low was born, the crawl walk into the zone. Players needed as many as five others to finish the hardest Court of Orcs bosses at launch, but Bungie has a habit of putting you into empty zones. So players, pathetically, figured out that if they crouch walked in, they might, might empty a full lobby. Or not, in which case you ran out, turned around and crouched in again, and again, and again, until you got into a lobby with enough players.  So Bungie did it again with Rise of Iron, except this time they fixed the problem by having a landing zone in the arena and waiting matchmaking to try and put players in full lobbies.       So let's see, no landing zone, check. Crawl walking into the arena to matchmake, check. Empty lobbies anyway at the time, check. Encounters that require five others to complete the highest tier, check. Consumable key to start the encounters, check.  Are you kidding? Why? How?  Your second new super. Yes, Bungie locks the item that gets you a new super into one of its ridiculously badly matchmade patrol thingies. Let's count the ways that this could be fixed easily. Have an end game LFG, allow six man control fire teams, have a landing zone in the arena, simply have it be a separate matchmade activity which would obviously be the best.  It is so, so miserably annoying to walk slow, sorry, crouch into the zone only to see two other people with their menus open waiting.   It's ridiculous that that even happened with escalation protocol and is exhibit A in the Bungie incompetence case. Amazing, just simply amazing.  Moving on. In conclusion. Forsaken is a very good Destiny expansion. All the things that I wish were a thing like separate balancing for PvP and PvE and more build diversity and gear and perks at a crazier are still a problem, but at this point it's clear the game is what it is. Bungie isn't going to make the game complex or deep. It's obvious that one of the most important bedrock design principles at the studio is simplicity. From the story to the UI, from the matchmaking to the playlist to the gear and subclass trees, Bungie is obsessed with the one button press with being the opposite of Warframe. Where Warframe's menus and systems are ridiculously complicated and require effort to figure out, Bungie's design is all about never being confused, never being inconvenienced, never wasting time in a menu, except when it comes to actually getting to play the game. If an activity has even a thin veneer of complexity, Bungie refuses to help its players navigate that, refuses to get out of the way and give people tools and options. The Nightfall Strike is a key way to level your character. It's not particularly mechanically complex. In fact, it's not really any different than regular strikes. It's just a bit harder with tougher enemies and some different choices of modifiers, but it still has zero matchmaking. No, okay, that's not true. There is matchmaking outside of the game. See, I matchmake with randoms every time I do a Nightfall or a raid. I just have to go outside the game to do it, which is an unneeded step. Every time you put an obstacle between a player and an activity, you will filter some out. Some people don't know about the LFGs, some just don't wanna bother and now those players won't play. From the Nightfall to Gambit to the Raids to Blindwell, Bungie's best content is it's more complex content. The only content where you build subclass and gear actually matters. The only content that actually challenges a team that fosters communication, community, friendships, strategies, but Bungie refuses to do what's necessary to make these really great modes as convenient, accessible and enjoyable for most players.  When they realized how few players raided, it was incumbent upon them to provide an in-game LFG.  I raid and Nightfall less now than I did back at the start of Destiny 1. My life has gotten busier and more tiring the older I get. I still wanna play these things, but I don't want to have to do all the work, Bungie, and that is a perfectly reasonable thing because I'm a customer. Bungie keeps making great shit, a rock-solid shooter, one of the most beautiful games out there. Sound design, music, lore, art design, animations, all of it is top notch, the production values are through the roof and their modes and strikes and raids are all really well-designed. But if they continue to refuse to meet players halfway, if they refuse to do everything they can to facilitate players actually playing their best content, then the game will continue to be underwhelming for a lot of players. Every player who leaves the game without raiding is a failure by Bungie. Every week, I don't Nightfall because I don't feel like scrolling down through an app, waiting and hoping someone messages me back is a failure.  Every time I sigh because I matched against the four stacking gambit is a failure. And as always, it's not a failure in the design of the gameplay, it's a failure in the design of getting out of the way so players can play the game. The philosophy around the ways players socialize needs to completely change.  If not, the franchise will shrink as more and more people buy the game but don't play its most compelling content and leave feeling underwhelmed. All right, thanks. See you next time.


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In about 15 minutes, I'll be back with full information about the Equitable Society's fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers. Tonight's FBI file, two tickets to nowhere. Tonight's case from the files of your FBI concerns the criminal activities of an undesirable alien. Before you hear the story behind this crime, though, the Federal Bureau of Investigation would like to make one fact perfectly clear. It does not now nor has it ever worked on the theory that all aliens are undesirable. That way lies ever-deepening prejudice. Aliens to this shore have that name only because they were born in another country and not because they possess any qualities, either good or evil, which are not possessed in the same proportion by any equal number of Americans. The roster of those who have come to this nation from other shores and contributed to our greatness is a long one. There are also those who come to America and refuse to pay any heed to our laws. They would be criminals in any nation because basically the laws of every democratic nation are very similar. This latter type of alien, these undesirable aliens, have contributed their share to our national crime wave, for like our Native American criminals, they too are capable of lying, cheating, and killing. Tonight's file opens in an exclusive cafe located in a large South American city. The head waiter is attempting to prevent a rather shabbily dressed man from entering. My dear man, if you insist on keeping me outside the confines of this cubicle of a nixie... Before you're mornin', I have my order. The last time you were here, you start to dig fine. My dear Rafael, if you do not immediately escort me to Mr. Ludlow's table, I shall be forced to reveal to your employers what I know about you. Call me. I shall take you. There, that's the time. Here you are. Send your money. Thank you. Sorry I made Mr. Ludlow. I'm George Bonnet. Hello. My reason for being detained was very amusing. You see, I... Let's get down to business. Oh, oh, very well. How did you happen to call me? How did you know who I was? Mr. Ludlow, I've been down here from the States now for almost ten years. My contacts are excellent. I pick up stray bits of information about most of the new arrivals, and sometimes that information comes in handy. A shake artist, huh? I rarely resort to blackmail. Why did you call me? Well, I've been thinking about going back to the States now for quite a while. However, I don't want to make the trip unless I can go back and live like I used to. Top cavity. You came to the wrong place to make a fuss. Sir, three months ago, you were shipped out of the United States as an undesirable alien. Look, I don't want to... Mr. Ludlow, any resentment you may be feeling will dissolve completely when I tell you that we can make a deal. What kind of deal? You look like a man to whom the taste of revenge would be sweet. Would you like to outwit the immigration authorities and go back to the States? It cannot be done. Then why not? I'm too hard for anybody to handle. First, for as I'm concerned, you're ice cold. What's your fit? It's a trade secret. Then I don't play. Why not? I don't want any proposition where we get on a boat, go to the coast of Florida, then we swim the last quarter of a mile. That's not for me. Well, it's not for me either, sir. If we go back my way, we go back with passports. Legitimate passports. It doesn't sound right. Mr. Ludlow, I can get passports, but I've got no money. You've got money, but you can't get a passport. It seems to me we ought to get together. What's it going to cost? A port fee, $2,500. I can't pay you until we get back to the States. Well, in that case, there'll be a slight extra charge. The price for the passport payable when we arrive in the United States is $5,000. You made a deal. A few days later, in an FBI field office in the northeastern section of the United States, Agent Paul Auburn approaches the desk of Special Agent Jim Taylor. Jim, I'm in line for congratulations.  But Ethel found an apartment yesterday, and we moved in last night. Fine. Now that you've got the housing problem off your mind, you can start thinking about something else. Is there something else? Oh, yes, the SEC just assigned us to work on a case together. What kind of a case is it, Jim? In personation of a federal official. What's the story? Well, a man named George Monet got a job with the government agency in South America as chief clerk. He was put to work while his application was being sent to Washington for routine checking. Now, in Washington, found that he was a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record. Monet was discharged. However, before he left the office, he managed to steal some official stationery and a book of government transportation request blanks. Now, on one of the letter heads, he typed out a set of credentials, identifying himself as an official of the United States government traveling on an official business. Oh, I see. He then presented his hand to work to the foreign office, was granted a passport without delay, and obtained a visa to enter the United States. Is he back in this country now? Wait a minute, you haven't heard all of it yet. He not only got a passport for himself, but he also got one for a companion who also had forged credentials. That passport was made out toward John W. Smith. And who is John W. Smith? I have no idea, Paul, but they both landed in Miami yesterday on the clipper. Well, they could be a long way from Miami by now. Oh, that I know. Are there any leads at all? Well, we've got Monet's description and his picture. Got anything on Smith? No, no, not a thing. Have you got any ideas on procedure? Yes, I've been going over the passenger list on that clipper they came back on, and Martha Dalton, the movie star, was one of the passengers. Oh, how does that help, Jim? Well, I think there were probably some photographers at the airport from her studio to take publicity pictures. Well, that's logical. So I'm going to try and get a copy of any that were taken and see if Monet and his friends show up in any of the backgrounds. He'll be back in the States again, then. Fine. The land of the free. That's us. Free. Yes, that's right. And we don't have to list any more of those marimba bands. Up here, when you put in a nickel, out comes Benny Goodman. You're right. Speaking of a nickel, our strategic position would be considerably improved if we had a little money. Yes, I know. The operators say how long it would take to locate your girl? No. It's been quite a while now since you put that call in. Ben, I trust nothing has happened to stem the tide of true love. You've been gone for three months, you know. And from the picture you showed me, she's rather attractive. Talk about yourself for a change. Why? We did like you to. Is there any particular phase of the subject you care to have me discuss? You are going to be a lawyer again? That is a decision which has been irrevocably removed from my domain. Did you ever hear of a hoodlum named Gentleman Joe Ferguson? Yes. I used to represent Gentleman Joe till one fateful day when, in order to get an acquittal after a messy affair in which he was involved, it became necessary for me to put a small fix in with one of the jurors. Through some quirk of fate, the fix was discovered and I was disbarred. Uh, telephone's ringing. It must be my call. Yes, that's right. Here's your party. Hello? Hello, kitty. This is Ben. Just a little while ago. Oh, what am I going to see? Well, that depends on you. Look, I need some money. I need care of John W. Smith, Daytona Beach, my western union. Daytona Beach, okay. Good. Uh, honey, have you still got those keys I left with you? Yeah. Good. Now, one of them is for a safe deposit box. That box has a map in it. Map of what? The location of some money that me and Steve buried. Baby, if we dig that up, we're going to be fixed fine. Oh, I care about it. I jump back. Well, I met somebody down there who worked an angle. We both came back together. Is he coming north, William? He thinks he is, but I already made arrangements to have him taken care of. Are those the pictures of Martha Dalton? That's right, Paul. Look at the background of this picture for this class here. Well, that's Monet, all right. I'll take a look at that man standing beside Monet. What? That face looks familiar to me. You may have seen it before on a wanted notice. The last time he was arrested, he was using the name of Ben Ludlow. Ben Ludlow? He was deported, but obviously it didn't stick. I was stationed on the west coast when he was picked up. What was the charge? He and a friend of his named Benson held up a bank messenger. They got over $60,000. What happened to the money? We never found any of it. What happened to Benson? He carried the gun. He's still in prison. Has an alarm gone out on Ludlow yet? Yes. I've already called police headquarters and the alarm went out on Monet, too. How long ago was that, Jim? About an hour ago. Paul, why don't you go over to Ludlow's old address and I'll go to headquarters. If neither of us gets anything tonight, we'll start again. First thing in the morning. Ben, it's wonderful having you back. How do you think I feel? Oh, this was just like old times. Being on the town, closing all the saloons. Yeah. You got your key? Oh, sure. Here you are. He's the one who got me back into the country. But I thought you'd... Did you think I was dead, Miss Wayne? Oh, well... Perhaps I'd better explain. Ben hired some trench and hoodlums in Florida to take care of me, but by some coincidence, they both happened to be former clients of mine. How did you get in here? Oh, that was a simple matter. I told the superintendent that it was Miss Wayne's birthday and that I wanted to surprise take it, eh? I never told your name.  Yeah. I called the long-distance operator and she told me whom you had called. Smart boy. Well, I may get a practice over to do the best I can. Well, what do you want? He wants $5,000 for getting me to passport. Oh, no, Ben, you're wrong. What? When I returned to the scene of some of my former triumphs, I renewed acquaintances with some of my other ex-clients. They told me that you and your former partner had a lot of money put away somewhere. What about it? I want 50% of it. You want 50? Before you answer, let me tell you something. I have a half a dozen letters granted in different places and if I don't maintain my present state of good health for the next 48 hours, the people who find those letters will know what happened to me. You think of everything, don't you? My legal training. Ben, what are we going to do? Well, there's really only one thing he can do. Ben, shake hands with your new partner. We will return in just a moment to tonight's exciting case from the files of your FBI. Now, listen. As the next 60 seconds tick away, several hundred American parents will make a decision, a decision that will vitally affect the whole future happiness and security of their families. What is that decision, Mr. Keating? During the next minute, they will hear about the equitable society's famous fact-finding charge for fathers and mothers. We know from experience that every time we describe this chart, hundreds, sometimes thousands of fathers and mothers say to themselves, that fact-finding chart is just what we need. 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The more you love your family, the more gratified you will be that you decided to get the fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers prepared for you by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. And now back to the FBI file. Two tickets to nowhere. The people in tonight's case from the files of your FBI, the undesirable alien, the disbarred lawyer, the young girl who acted as their accomplice, they may seem to you like unusual characters, people with whom you feel you are unlikely to come into contact during your everyday life. And yet, if that is what you think, then you are deluding yourself because no matter how far you regard yourself as being from the environs of crime, you are actually in its midst. The victims of no more than 10% of the million and a half major crimes committed in this country in the past year were other criminals. In the remaining 90%, the victims were decent citizens. Decent citizens who probably thought that they were far from crime.  Tonight's file continues at the local FBI field office. Well, Jim, it's a bright new day. I hope we get a bright new clue on Monet and Ludlow. I can sure use one, Paul. I stopped by police headquarters. They still hadn't gotten anything. I checked yesterday at Ludlow's old address. The landlady said that he hadn't been near the place. Of course, she may be protecting him. No, I don't think so. When he was arrested last time, she helped us by calling and letting us know when he arrived home. Oh? Oh, I forgot. They both are definitely here in town. How do you know, Jim? I took the pictures out of the airport and showed them to the porters out there. Oh. Which plane did they come in on? They each came in on a different flight. That's what makes my suspicion even stronger, that Ludlow had the money he and Benson stole put away somewhere up here. I think you're right. Hey, Paul. Paul, Benson knows where that money is. I'm going up to prison and interviewing him. I think we have enough to make him talk. I think we have enough to make him talk. Miss Wayne, as an ex-attorney, I wouldn't advise driving over 50. I don't want any of your advice. Mind if I speak to you, Ben? Go ahead.  That's right. Get his slow down. Okay. Uh-huh. Tempers futed. The whole order changes. What does that mean? No, just thinking to myself. People used to pay a lot of money for my advice. Now I find it difficult to give away. Ben, shouldn't the place be right near here? Yeah, yeah. It isn't very far. You know, I think I should take my share of those subterranean pieces of eight and go to Paris. I've always understood that a man of culture is welcome there, especially if in addition he also happens to possess large banknotes. Get his slow down. Okay. All right, now stop. Have we arrived at the pot of gold? Yeah.  Let's start digging. Boy, do you want to go on a treasure hunt? Well, sure, Jim. What's the treasure? It's $1,000. Whoa! Count me in. I was up to see Benson in prison. He drew this map for me. Oh? Yeah. This is where he and Ludlow buried their money just before their arrest. He drew this from memory, so some of the details may only be approximate, but I think we ought to be able to find it. Well, what made him tell you where it was? I told him that Ludlow was back in this country, that he returned here to town. I convinced him that the only reason that he would have come back up here was to get that money. He finally agreed that Ludlow must be double-crossing him, and he drew the map. Good. And where is this place? It's about 20 miles north of here on Highway 1. You suppose Ludlow and Monet are on their way up there now? I don't know, but if they are, I think they'll find a reception committee waiting for them. What do you mean? I called the local police up there and told them to be on the lookout. Oh, I also told them that we'd give them a hand, so come on, Paul. Let's get up there. You found it again? No. No. I think you can count on something worse when one of us finds this hatch of money. Well, what's taking so long? For one thing, that map you're holding hardly looks like one that was made by Rand McNally. We have thus far dug a ditch somewhat resembling the marginal line without finding anything. Oh, we'll find it. No, no, I certainly trust so. I need to think that I did all this work. Nothing. They're both far away from where the exit is on the map. I got it. I got it. Honest man? Ben, when would you mind if I pieced it my eyes on it? Let me see too. 51,000. I never saw a more beautiful picture. Well, I am now affluent enough to live for a while. Wait. What is it? Look, up there on the hill. There's a man standing there. Looks like a cop. Let's get back in the car. Okay. Get him down there. Stay right there. Wait a minute. Wait for me. No, no. This is where we break the partnership. Let's get out of here. And I chased the car, Mr. Taylor, but they got away. Oh, I understand perfectly, Sergeant. Don't take it so hard to get away from everybody once in a while. I fired five shots at them, but I didn't hit with any one of them. Well, wood's pretty heavy up through here. That road curves a lot. You can very well shoot around trees. After I gave up chasing them, I came back here and found that other man. Oh, that's George Monet. Oh. Ludlow wasn't driving the car. Huh? There was a girl with him. Sergeant, you didn't get close enough to get the license on some of the car, did you? No, I didn't. It was just starting to get dark when they drove away from there. And the girl didn't have her lights on. I see. I don't even know what kind of a car it is. All I know is that it's a sedan. I'm cutting through these woods. You say there's no other road they could get to except Highway 56, right? Unless they turn around and come back past here. I don't think it's very likely they'll do that. The minute I lost them, I called our two patrol cars and had them set up a road block on either end of the woods. So we should be here and for one of those cars pretty soon. Not so fast. If they decide to hole up in the woods, we shouldn't have too much trouble going in and getting them. Well, that may take more manpower than we have available, Sergeant. I guess we'll be doing it. Yeah, what is it for? I just took a call. It came in on the two-way for the Sergeant here. Was it from one of the patrol cars? Yes, they reported that a car with its lights out going about 80 miles an hour and headed north on Route 56 just sideswiped the patrol car and broke through the road block. Well, I'm glad the Sergeant knew about this shortcut to Route 56. We saved quite a bit of time coming this way. I wish we knew who that girl is with Ludlow or even what the car therein looks like. Here's the crossroads. Ludlow could have gone either way from here, Jim. Look down there. See that car? Look at it go. It must be Ludlow. Let's see if we can catch him. Jim, according to the map, there's a rise in the road just ahead. Yeah, I see it. I think we're gaining on it. It should be at this speed. Here's the top of the hill. Jim, there's nowhere to be seen. Wait a minute. That drive-in theater we just passed, that's where they must be. Let's go back and see. What's the deal here, Jim? People sit in their cars and watch the movie. The attendant says you didn't see which lane that last car went into. There must be a couple of hundred cars inside this car. Yeah, and the show breaks in three minutes. They'll all be streaming out of here, then. Come on, Paul, let's start looking. You don't understand. Understanding is my business, young lady. Oh, I've seen this. What? I've seen this picture. Now, lean back from a distance. No, I like to... Talk about anything that comes into your mind. Very well. What are you thinking? I hope we'd duck them. What? I said, I hope we'd duck those cars. I remember when I was a little girl. I had pigtails and there was a boy on our block named Tommy Gillan who used to carry my books to school. Go on, keep talking. I don't remember much about the years I went to high school. Well, that's because you don't want to remember. Is this thing over soon? Let's see. Oh, I know she and the doctor get married. But when? I don't remember. Poor darling. Poor, poor darling. They've gone into a clinch. Does that mean anything? Yeah. We're going to finish. I love you, Kurt. Olivia. Hey. What? Two guys out there walking around. What are they wearing you for? We can't take any chances. Put your arms around me quick. What for? We've got to look like everybody else that's parked here. Hey, what is this? Put your hands up and step out of there. Now look, me and my Kurt... You heard me, lad. Now move. All right, Miss. You too. I got nothing to do with him. We just had a date to see the picture. We're making it a double feature now. Come on. George Monet was tried and sentenced to a 10-year term in a federal prison. Ben Ludlow also received a 10-year sentence and deportation. His girlfriend was turned over to state authorities. Tonight's case from the files of your FBI was closed successfully because Special Agent Taylor remembered that the car which had been swiped on Route 56 was a police car and was painted white. In examining the cars at the drive-in theater, he looked for one that had a fresh dent and some particles of white paint in the scratches. That combination, the ability to assimilate facts and later to make application of them in the solution of any crime, is part of the training which every Special Agent receives before he graduates from the FBI Academy. Each of those Special Agents has a big job. This is a nation that at the last census had 140 million people in it. At the present time, there are fewer than 4,000 FBI Special Agents, a ratio of one Special Agent for every 35,000 Americans. For that numerical reason alone, the training mentioned above is an essential part of every Special Agent's equipment. Equipment he is given in order that he may better help protect the property and lives of you, the American people. In just a moment, we will tell you about next week's case from the files of your FBI. But now, listen. Don't forget, the seconds are ticking away. Time is speeding by. So don't delay. Get that fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers right away.  Phone your Equitable Society representative soon, or send a postcard to the Equitable Society care of this ABC station. Your request will be forwarded to the nearest representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Next week, we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an exciting account of crime on the high seas. It's subject to grand larceny. It's titled Voyage of Terror. The incidents used in tonight's Equitable Life Assurance Society broadcast are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, all names used are fictitious, and any similarity they love to the names of persons living or dead is accidental. Tonight, the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner. The author was Jerry D. Lewis. Your narrator was William Woodson, and special agent Taylor was played by Stacey Harris. This is your FBI is a Jerry Divine production. This is Larry Keating speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and the Equitable Society's representative in your community, and inviting you to tune in again next week at the same time, when the Equitable Life Assurance Society will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Voyage of Terror on This is your FBI. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.