Why is fantasy stuck in the dark ages? When we say fantasy, that conjures images not just of wands and wizards, but also of swords and shields, of horses, gowns, armor, royalty, cloaks, daggers. In short, by default, we think of a historical setting. This is not going to be an exhaustive history of the genre. This is going to be extremely abridged and skewed for the purposes of this video. So before fantasy was the genre that we recognize today, stories about magic would have been predominantly fairy tales, fables, legends. Fairy tales and legends were conceived of long ago and passed down. Stories sort of outside of time and place with no particular reference to specific kings or specific places or specific geopolitical markers. Fairy tales often begin once upon a time, which seems to suggest that it was a time long ago. How long ago is unclear? In fact, the era in which the story is to take place by this opening is largely rendered irrelevant. A time is all we are given. All it can tell us is that it is not this time. Enter Tolkien. Okay, I'm skipping over a lot here. Certainly before Tolkien, we had things that would be regarded as fantasy. There were Elizabethan plays such as Midsummer Night's Dream or The Tempest. We had books such as Let in the Mist. There were authors such as Lewis Carroll and J.M. Berry who are definitely playing with fantasy in their work. So while there were magical and fantastical stories before Tolkien, the literary genre, as we know it today, a whole section of the bookstore dedicated to fantasy, capital F, awards dedicated to the genre of fantasy, capital F. The origin of this can mostly be traced to Tolkien. And Tolkien's books, unlike some other examples, were unexpectedly popular. Tolkien inspired imitators for decades. If one was writing fantasy, Tolkien was the guide, the gold standard, and still is for many. So in essence, Tolkien's ideas and preferences were what shaped the genre as a whole thereafter. And Tolkien was inspired specifically by Legends and Myths. Indeed, the project of Middle Earth and the stories that take place within was in essence to provide England with a mythic tradition of its own because Tolkien felt that there wasn't one really that that was lacking. He wanted England to have a mythic tradition that was akin to the mythic traditions that he so admired from other cultures. So this being the origin, the granddaddy of them all, it's unsurprising that all of fantasy thereafter has, whether consciously or not, likewise followed in this sort of mythic tradition. So let's talk about tropes and narrative conventions. What does it mean to be writing something in a mythic tradition? Is that necessarily built into the tropes that we associate with fantasy? Is it inextricable? What are some essential fantasy tropes? What I'm going to call necessary fantasy tropes, and I'm sure people will disagree with this list, but the function of this list is to kind of essentialize what is necessary for something to be regarded as fantasy at all, like the most core definition. So I think magic that is regarded as given in the world of this story, people know of it and expect it in the world of the story, magical creatures. There's something, there's nothing inherently magical about a horse with a horn or a giant lizard with wings that can fly, but these creatures don't exist in our world, so they are the very least speculative and oftentimes authors will also attribute to them other speculative magical properties. A magical object or artifact, so swords, necklaces, rings, wands, etc. Objects that are imbued with magic, either by a magic user or by the universe, some like vague unknowable magical force, something like that, and magic users. In stories where magic is not necessarily universally accessible to everybody, which is kind of a newer idea in fantasy anyway, you have a subset of characters or people, or a particular race that has access to magic, individuals like wizards or witches or mages, as well as entire species like fairies or elves. So those are what I regard as kind of necessary tropes for something to be regarded as fantasy. You don't need to have all of them, but you I feel need to have at least one of those things in some way for your work, for the work to be regarded as fantasy. But there are a ton of tropes associated with fantasy that go beyond that. So I have made a list of what I'm calling adjacent tropes that are non-essential, but nevertheless prevalent in fantasy. The chosen one. Many fantasy stories have a protagonist that was born in obscure mysterious circumstances, and they discover that the fate of the world actually rests upon their shoulders. Now obscurity and mystery of this kind is not as realistic or believable in an age where births are documented and tracked so meticulously, and one's birth entitling one to great power also is not as realistic in an era in which we at least purport to value meritocracy, which leads me to royalty. It seems rare to find a fantasy world that doesn't have at least something similar to, if not outright named as a monarchical system or some kind of hereditary power structure. Fairy tales tended to have royalty, often as a mechanism for reward.  Myths often also served the function of justifying the existence of this hereditary rule. So this royal family is in fact special because you see great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granddaddy was given this magical sword, and therefore he's worthy and therefore so is everybody that came after him. And magic is often hereditarian stories. So a world built around the existence of magic might tend to link that with hereditary power. So you inherit the magic power, you also inherit the structural power. Quests. Many fantasy stories involve long, long journeys where a character or a group of characters have to travel vast distances and encounter various challenges along the way. Again, a journey like this is rendered pretty unnecessary in a world in which you have access to fast travel, trains, cars, buses, airplanes. Lastly, training in hand-to-hand combat. Often fantasy protagonists are either valued for their already great skills in hand-to-hand fighting or they are shown to be training and developing those skills over the course of the story. Again, these sorts of skills are rendered redundant in a world where one has guns, tanks, bombs, drones. Neither of these lists is intended to be exhaustive, but I think if we take a look at these lists side by side, we can begin to see where the problem lies. The necessary tropes don't really contain anything that would be a problem for a modern setting. However, the adjacent tropes would be very difficult to include in a modern setting. Based on this, it would seem it is a preoccupation with a particular form or style rather than the substance of fantasy that is at fault for this stagnation and this perpetual lack of advancement in fantasy worlds. Okay, I see you typing away furiously already. What about standpoint? What about flintlock? What about urban fantasy? Okay, so let's talk about those. First of all, the fact that these exist, that a name is given to them as like a whole subgenre that you have to specify that suggests that this is a deviation from the norm. These subgenres are titled specifically after the level of technology or the type of technology in their world, which seems to suggest that by default, fantasy means that it takes place in a less technologically advanced world. If your story takes place in a world that does have technology that advanced beyond the middle ages of the Renaissance, then it can't just be labeled fantasy, then it must be categorized by this deviation and instead labeled as urban, as steampunk, as flintlock. So flintlock, this just means that your fantasy world discovered and figured out how to use gunpowder. That's literally all that that means. Likewise, steampunk is just alternate history, where instead of progressing technologically the way that we did in the real world, rather technology went the route of steam and analog power. And urban fantasy, interestingly, this tends to indicate that your fantasy does not take place in a secondary world at all. It takes place in our real world, but with magic added. Sometimes there's a portal fantasy aspect to it where people from our modern world are transported to a secondary-ish world, but it still includes the existence of our modern world in the premise. Again, this is not meant to be an exhaustive list. There are other subgenres, and there are a ton of tropes associated with these subgenres. What I mean to highlight is this preoccupation with technology. These major subgenres aren't named after types of magic. They aren't named after the types of narratives. They are specifically calling out the level of technology in the world of the story. They tell you nothing about the type of story that it's going to be. Or do they? As I said, there are a lot of tropes associated with each of these subgenres. Could it be that these tropes arise out of the constraints and by the challenges presented by this level of technology being present in the world? So I'm planning to do a whole separate video about the topic of world building. This video is not that, but briefly, worlds do or they should define the types of cultures, the types of beliefs, the types of peoples that populate them. The fact that the type of technology present in a fantasy world is sufficient to tell you a great deal about the type of stories, the types of narratives, the types of tropes that you're going to find in them is indicative of this. Now I won't argue that that is the sole reason for certain tropes becoming prevalent in these subgenres. There are narrative conventions that crop up simply due to tradition or the success of a work leading to its replication by successors, you know, just like with Tolkien. He was so popular, so everyone imitated him. If a particular author wrote a story that was steampunk, flintlock or urban and it was really popular, people might copy other aspects of it. Preferences just sort of mutually rowing out of reader seeking stories for their tropes and then those tropes becoming ingrained because they are so popular and so then readers seeking them are creating a sort of feedback loop with the authors writing them, etc. But I do think that it is telling that these subgenres are ultimately defined by the level of technology present in their worlds. And everything else that falls under these umbrellas is convention, is trope, is tradition, but is not the defining feature of any of them. It is the level of technology. So are there any examples of fantasy books that demonstrate technological progress that aren't steampunk or flintlock or urban? The Green Bone Saga is the first that comes to mind, for me anyway. If you don't know anything about the Green Bone Saga, I highly recommend you look it up and you read it. I love it, but for context, for what I'm talking about right now, if you've truly never heard of the Green Bone Saga, because you've been living under a rock, the Green Bone Saga, by fondly, takes place in an entirely secondary world that is in its level of technology, at least where the saga begins, is sort of like 80s, 90s. Not a one-to-one, but sort of around there. And then as the story goes on, then the technology advances kind of at a similar pace as from the 80s through to the 2000s. The main protagonists are in a part of the world that is heavily inspired by Asia, but it is a secondary world. It is actually invented places that is not supposed to be a magical one-to-one comparison with an actual Asian country. It is made up just in the way that Middle Earth is made up, and the people and the culture and the magic and the history and everything is made up for this secondary world, just as it would be for a swords and sorcery type world. But it takes place in a setting that is most similar to, like, again, 80s, 90s, 2000s of our modern world. And the plot contains the protagonist of the story, the specifics of this. People are going to argue about this, but it's reminiscent of sort of mob families, crime families, syndicates, organized crime, this sort of thing, in an Asian-inspired setting, which then also then the world expands to show you other parts of the world, other countries that are adjacent to this country that, again, are not any one-to-one. They aren't specific countries from our real world, but they have their own invented cultures and languages that might be reminiscent of various places in our real world. So now that we've set up what the Greenbone Saga is, an argument could be made that this is urban fantasy. However, as I said before, typically urban fantasy does not take place in a secondary world. Typically, urban fantasy takes place in a magical version of our real world. The Greenbone Saga takes place in a wholly secondary world, entirely different geography, entirely different history, entirely invented from whole cloth. Likewise, I alluded to the fact that urban fantasy as a sub-genre has its own established tropes and conventions, and the Greenbone Saga doesn't really contain these. And when the Greenbone Saga has been listed in read-alike-type suggestion videos and lists, the read-alikes given for it, tellingly, have not been urban fantasy books. They have rather been non-fantasy stories like gang and mob fiction, crime family fiction, syndicates, espionage, things like that. Greenbone defies category, because fantasy as a genre is resistant to the idea that a world in which its stories take place could be modern. Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson. I only read the first era of Mistborn, but my understanding is that Era 2 of Mistborn, which is the second trilogy or I guess Quartet now, takes place many years onward from Era 1, but still in the same world. And that the world in the interim has progressed technologically, placing Era 2 more in the Flintlock era. While I have been told that I would not like these books, I would not enjoy them, and that I should not read them, I do vastly approve of this in concept, and I wish more fantasy worlds did this. Can't go without mentioning First Law by Joe Abercrombie, my truest love. The World of the First Law by Joe Abercrombie. The original trilogy takes place in a world that's, you know, swords and shields, axes and armor, hand-to-hand fighting, and gunpowder has just been kind of discovered, and they're just experimenting with figuring out its uses. In the second trilogy, The Age of Madness, this takes place several decades after the original trilogy, and it's taking place in an era that is somewhat similar to the Industrial Revolution. So what's my point? Why am I talking about any of this? Why does it matter? Again, I'll be talking more about world building in a whole separate video, but I think the two reasons that this bothers me so much are, one, it's limiting. There's so much less variety in fantasy because the entire genre is limited to pre-industrial, pre-gunpowder environment, and frankly it gets old, reading about the same sorts of settings over and over again that can really only differentiate themselves in aesthetics. Second, it hurts the believability of the world building. In a standalone, this doesn't matter as much because you're probably not going to be covering that a huge span of years, but longer fantasy series, particularly crafted fantasy worlds and have a lot of books taking place in them, the idea that they would remain forever unchanging, that they would always be in this perpetual state of pre-industrialization. That is neither believable nor interesting. Again, the idea that the Mistborn trilogies would show significant technological advancement between the two trilogies is absolutely fantastic and should be the norm. Personally, I would like to see more authors do what Fonda Lee, what Joe Abercrombie, what Brad and Sanderson have done, namely allow their worlds to progress. If we can invent secondary worlds that largely resemble medieval and Renaissance Europe, why can't we invent secondary worlds that resemble Europe post 1900? Better yet, why not fantasy worlds that resemble any and all parts of the world post 1950? I would love to see the world of the Witcher 500 a thousand years onward. Tell me about the private companies and government institutions that are putting their ties to the legendary era of the witchers on their websites. Robin Hobb write me another trilogy about the six duchies in a thousand years, and tell me about the corruption and the bureaucracy of the mutual defense pacts and agreements that are between them. Patrick Rothes actually just finished Dorsif Stone. Don't worry about anything else. Anyway, the point is I want to see fantasy authors stretch the limits of what the genre can do and engage in the thought exercise of how magic would affect the formation of more modern governments and institutions, how magic would influence the development of technology, how magical races would and contribute to tensions in a global economy. But what do you think? Are there actually a ton of books that do this already and I just don't know about them? Or do you prefer fantasy remain in this kind of like stagnant pre-industrial state? What are your thoughts? I would love to know. And if you think that this is a problem but I have completely missed the reason why this is a problem, I would love to know that too. But in the meantime, if you haven't already, read The Green Fund Saga by Fonda Lee.


Have a welcome back to theCUBE's cover of DockerCon main stage. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We're here with Chubhub Rao, senior manager, product manager at AWS and the container services. Chubhub, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Hi, thank you very much for having me excited to be here. So Ashley, we've been, we're doing a lot of coverage with AWS recently on containers, cloud native, microservices, and we see you guys always at the events. But tell me about what your role is in the organization. Yeah, so I did the product management and developer advocacy team in the AWS container services group where we focus on elastic containers. And what I mean by elastic containers is that all the AWS opinionated out of the box solutions that we have for you, like ECS and AppRunner and Elastic Beanstalk. So where we bring in our services in a way that integrates with the AWS ecosystem and my team manages the product management and speaking to customers and developers like you all to understand how we can improve our services for you to use it more seamlessly. So I mean, I know AWS has a lot of services that have containers involved with the Manus Vada integration within the cloud, it's cloud native, Amazon is cloud native, it's going to get at AWS. If I was a new customer, where do I start with containers? If you had to give me advice and then where I have a nice roadmap to grow within AWS? Yeah, I know that's a great question. A lot of customers ask us this. Do you recommend that the customers choose whatever is the best fit for their application needs and for their operational flexibility? So if you have an application which you can use a pretty abstracted like end-to-end managed by AWS service, we recommend that you start at the highest level of abstraction that's okay to use for your application. And that means something like AppRunner where you can bring in a web application and run it like end-to-end. And if there are things that you want to control and tweak, then we have services like ECS where you get control and you get flexibility to tweak it to your needs. Be it needs of like integrations or running your own agents and running your own partner solutions or even customizing how it scales and all the characteristics related to it. And of course we have, if a lot of our customers also run capabilities.  So like application needs, the operational, how much of the operations do you want us to handle or how much of it do you want to actually have control over? And with all that, like the highest level of abstraction so that we can do the work on your behalf which is the goal of AWS. We always hear that all that heavy lifting, undifferentiated heavy lifting on you guys handle all that. Since you're in product management and I have to ask the question because you guys have a little bit longer view as you have to think about what's on the roadmap. What type of customer trends are you seeing in container services? So that's, we see a lot of trends about customers who want to have the plugability for their services of choice and our EKS offerings actually help in that. And we see customers who want an opinionated, give me an out-of-the-box solution rather than building blocks and EKS brings you that experience. The newest trends that we are seeing is that a lot of our customer workloads are also on their data centers and in their on-prem like environments be it branch offices or data centers or like in other areas. And so we've recently launched the anywhere offerings for you. So EKS anywhere brings you an experience for letting your workloads run in an environment that you control where we manage the scaling and the orchestration and the whole like monitoring and troubleshooting aspects of it, which is the new trend which seems to be something that the customers use as a way to migrate their applications to the cloud in the long-term or just to get, you know, they're the same experience and the same like constructs that they're familiar with come onto their data centers and their environments. You know, Shuba, we hear a lot about containers becoming standard in the enterprise now mainstream but customers when we talk to them they kind of have this evolution. They start with containers and they realize how great it is and they become container full, right? And then you start to see kind of them trying to evolve to the next level and then you start to see EKS come into the equation. We see that in cloud native. Is EKS a container? Is it a service? How does that work with everything? So EKS is a Amazon managed service container service where we do the operational set up, you know, upgrades and other things for the customer on that we have. So basically you get the same properties APIs that you get to use for your application but we handle a little bit of the integrations and the operations related to keeping it up and running with high availability in a way that actually meets your needs for the applications. And more and more people are dipping their toe in the water as we say with containers. What are some of the things you've seen customers do when they jump in and start implementing that kind of phase one containers? Obviously there's a lot of head room beyond that. As you mentioned, what's the first couple of steps that they take they jump in? Do they, is it a learning process? Is it serverless? Where has the connection points all come together? Right, so I want to say that no one solution that we have fits all needs. Like it's not the best case, the best thing for all your use cases and not for all of your applications. So how it all comes together is that AWS gives you a great ecosystem of tools and capabilities. Some customers want to really build the, casual themselves with each of the Lego block and some customers want it to be a ready made thing. And I want, one of the things that I speak to customers about is to rethink which of the knobs and controls do they really need to have? Because none of the services we have is a one reader. Like there is always flexibility and ability to move from one service to the other. So my recommendation is to always start with things where Amazon handles many of the heavy lifting operations for you. And that means starting with something like serverless offerings. Where like for example, with Lambda and forget we manage the host, we manage the patch and we manage the monitoring. And that would be a great place for you to use ECS offering and basically get into an experience in a couple of days. And over time, if you have more needs, if you have more control, if you want to bring in your own agents and whatever else you have the option to use your own EC2 instances or to take it to other parts of the AWS ecosystem where you want to tweak it to your needs. Well, we're seeing a lot of great traction here at DockerCon and all the momentum around containers. And then you're starting to get into trust in security supply chain as open source becomes so more exponentially in growth. It's growing like crazy, which is a great thing. So what can we expect to see from your team in the coming months as this rolls forward? It's not going away anytime soon. It's going to be integrated and keep on scaling. What do we expect from the team in the next month or so, a couple of months? Security is our number one job. So you will continue to see more and more features capabilities and integrations to ensure that your workloads are secure. Availability and scaling are the things that we do as keep the lights on. So you should expect to see any, all of our services growing to make it like more user friendly, easier simple ways to get the whole availability and scaling to your needs better. And then like, very specifically on a touch on a few services, AppRunner. Today we have support for public facing web services. You can expect that the number of use cases that you can meet with AppRunner is going to increase over time. You want to invest into making it AWS end to end workflow experience for our customers because that's the easiest journey to the cloud. And we don't want you to actually wait for months and years to actually leverage the benefits of what AWS provides. If you look at ECS already launched out, like, you know Fargate and Fargate and anywhere to bring you more flexibility in terms of easier networking capabilities more granular controls in deployment and more controls to actually help you plug in your preferred solution twice. And in ECS, we are going to continue to keep the Kubernetes versions and bring simpler experiences for you to use. A lot of nice growth there containers, EKS, a lot more goodness in the cloud. Obviously we have 30 seconds left. Tell us what you're most excited about personally and what should the developers pay attention to in this conference around containers and AWS? I would say that AWS has a lot of offerings, but you know, speak to us, like come and come to us with your questions or anything that you have, like in terms of feature requests, we are very, very eager and happy to speak to you all. You know, you can engage with us on the containers roadmap, which is on GitHub or you can find many of us in events like this AWS summits and in our DockerCon and many of the other meetups. I'll find us on LinkedIn, we are always happy to chat. Yeah, always open, open source. Open source meets cloud scale, meets commercialization, all happening, all great stuff. Shubha, thank you for coming on theCUBE. Thanks for sharing. We'll send it back now to the DockerCon main stage. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. Thanks for watching.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebrakes.com 22, 23, Penini select, basketball just sold out. This is a six box half case break package number eight, which is the second half, and of course, all cards shipped. Here are the customer names, all the way down there. So here we go guys. So again, it is six boxes. These are the remaining six from the case. Akbaji, with scopes. Funkero base, Funkero base again. We got Johnny Davis, tri-color.  Number to 149, Lamello Ball, who I believe got a nice little max contract today. This is Charlotte Hornis Relic. You got a KPJ for the Rockets. Adam Coberman to 175, and a little teaser, Caleb Houston for the Atlanta Magic. A little patch autograph, Magic of Sean Matic to 99. Paul Pierce, or sorry, Paul George I should say, to 99.  And Johnny Davis to 249, very nice. Washington Wizards, Greg. You got a little Chet right there as well. Tri-color for the Thunder, Thunder's David B. You got a next box. And we have a De'Aaron Fox, a little tie-dye, out of 25, 23 out of 25. That's a Sagamurna King, Sean Matic. RJ Barrett, Paolo base, and Wiggins to 49. Little throwback patch for the Timberwolves. We got De'Aaron Fox, to 149. Dyson Daniels, Jayden Ivy, Christian Wood for the Mavericks. Kaihoon, and a Jalen Green at 49 in flight for the Rockets. That's enough for you for the cover man. Marty Smith, Walker Kessler Silver, and Jeremy Solchan, Relic. And a Dike here, Trey Young. All right, so there you go. Here's the first two boxes here. Next two boxes, Marjon, there for the Bucks. Brian, Trey Young, to 99. Scotty Barnes, and Ty Ty Washington, to 299 for Houston. Houston is out in cover minute 249. And Jason Terry to 199, X Factor Autos. We got Devin Vaso to 299, Washington and Malcolm Brown. All right, next box. Brandham, Red, to 199. Jamal Murray, Crew Holiday, and Zach Randolph, how about that? That's cool. Grizzlies, to 99. Grizzlies, that is Jerry. And then Jovic, blow to 249. The world peace to 199 for the Lakers. Lakers is Ken Bong, nice Chet Silver. All right, last four, two boxes here guys. All right guys, here we go, last two boxes. Kegan Murray Silver, and then Jamal Murray to 99. Jake Laravia, to 65, Sochan, Paul George, to 299. Lake Wesley to 49, nice three-color patch there. San Antonio Spurs, who has the Spurs? William does. Benedict Matheran, and a Jamal Crawford, one-of-one. In-flight, how about for the Clippers?  Look at that. Bet you didn't expect that. Got randomized the Clippers, which weren't the biggest team at all, by far one of the worst teams, but still. Got a one-of-one, that's hilarious. Congrats man. Yolkich, to 75. Can't wait to see that. And Anthony Davis. All right, last box. Christian Braun, Dyka Kawhi Leonard, man, Clippers. How about them Clippers, to 99. De'Aaron Fox to 49, X Factor Autos, very nice with the Sacramento Kings, going to Shawn Matic, Jovic Garellic, Ami Heat, Inku, we got a Johnny Davis Red, Greg with that one, with the Wizards to 199. Stocks right here. Wow, and a Penny Hardaway. Color wheel, these are super short printed, these are like, one in a few cases. And Orlando Magic, Shawn Matic, there you go man. That is sick. Solid hit right there, nice second half too. Palo Bancaro, John Morant, Sparks, Johnny Davis. Dyka Deonis to 175. Clay, little Pony, and then Patrick Baldwin Jr. Alrighty folks, and there you go. So second half had some pretty nice stuff. Little throwback, Zach Randall, Metta World Peace, Johnny Davis, Kayla Bustain, Jaylen Green. But here towards the end we got a color wheel, De'Aaron Fox, Lake West, and then a one-on-one in Flight Jamal Crawford. So pretty solid there guys. Thank you guys so much again, this was the only six boxes remaining. We had no more in stock for the time being, but hopefully we'll get more at Jasper's Case Breaks.com.


Team keep it clean. Team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and Finally today has come and his is finally official Finally flakko got asked straight up about Lamar Jackson Finally, we got to get a flakko response straight up about Lamar Jackson finally We're done It's officially done. We are done. It's done done done done done and I'm so happy about it It was nice.  We knew that we knew that this ain't no surprise This ain't no shocker. We already knew this we knew this and we said this already, but Flakko got to say it himself officially And he said it too. Yeah, I like I said, I think I think flakko subscribe man That look that the Joe flakko guy that comes through on here That might actually be flakko for real that really might be him because flakko even said it himself He even said You all y'all already know how I am he said y'all already know who how I am and I've been saying that too I said we we already know how flakko is. He don't get into all the drama and all that stuff You don't be getting into all that man, but My fault line of my fault everybody that's coming through I appreciate y'all man For those of you that are new for those of you that are old me I'm engraving vids. It's my youtube channel engraving vids and I'm a Ravens fan But on here we just talked football period and we talk about every team Recently it's been a lot of Raven stuff because there's been a lot of stuff going on even though it hasn't really been much going on But it's been a lot going on because the media tried to create something that was really nothing But anyway, make sure you subscribe to the youtube channel turn the notifications on leave a like on the video click the thumbs up button We got 32 people in here, but only 17 likes y'all click them thumbs up man. Click the thumbs up It's OTA's day man. Everybody's back. Everybody's coming back. It's OTA's time man My boys say Hulk smash the like button appreciate that man So I won't follow on Twitter too because YouTube sometimes they just don't like you getting your notifications for when we go live So follow on Twitter. So you never miss not one single video. That's important. But anyway So Flacco clear he said he never had a grudge with what's up? Hey, what's going on Kishon? No, you're not late.  He said that somebody did say it's all the front and Inside Flacco could still be a little upset. He could still be a little like man. These dudes really drafted somebody I guess my time in here is almost up, but a lot of people wouldn't be able to just Step to the media and be like Okay, yeah, I mean they wouldn't be able to do what Flacco did today Even if they are mad inside they wouldn't be able to hide it like that or you did get the notification this time Okay, see that's YouTube. They flaky like that. They flaky But I love how he handled it. I love how he spoke about it. I love just Everything about it.  We knew he was gonna do that and he did it I'm glad he did it. I'm glad it's over. I'm glad it's done Um Flacco he and he also said that he's gonna help Lamar Jackson out. He's welcomes him with open arms He said he said he said all of us are in the room together. He said all of us are in the room together Why wouldn't he help him out? Why wouldn't he I love that man and Just I love from the first day of OTAs when they had the video It was 10 seconds, but that 10 second video it just made me smile so much man It made me smile. It made me feel warm inside actually too. It really did because it had it was y'all know what video I'm talking about y'all already know the clip. It was the clip of flacco Lamar Jackson and RG3 RG3 had the biggest smile on his face. I ain't seen him smile that much since his rookie year in DC I ain't seen a smile that much, but maybe he's glad to just still be in the Maryland area Shout out to RG3 But he had a huge smile on his face Flacco looked happy Lamar Jackson had a smile on his face too Everybody everybody looked happy everybody looked like okay. Everything's good. Everything copa static whatnot. Everything is fine So yeah, he walked over and high-fived him and Lamar Jackson He high-fived him whatever and didn't hit him on his helmet. Oh that made me so I didn't it was just 10 like 10 seconds But it was great. It was great. It was great They didn't even have to edit all they had to do put some music in it and slow it down And that was it that was it they had to do no special editing They had to chop nothing up it just slowed it slowed it down and put some music on and that was it No, it's perfect, man. It was perfect. I didn't see the John Brown catch my flacco. I'm not getting all too I'm not gonna get hyped over over OTAs I don't want y'all to get hyped over OTAs But I know it's gonna be a lot of hype with OTAs because people just excited for football. So that's fine, but I'm not getting look at that. I just got a notification on my phone chiefs Why receiver Sammy Watkins is dominating in OTAs it's starting it started But I'm not getting all involved in hyping that because it's yeah, it's no defense It's no pads and that's it But I understand why people get hyped for it I understand why people get excited cuz it means football season is that much closer. So we getting there we getting there We getting there So we got about two two and a half months left. Wow We are almost there y'all we almost there appreciate y'all team keep it clean coming through man He said they running read options for RG3 and Lamar Jackson. I mean no shocker there. No shocker But flacco. Oh, you got that same notification? Yeah NFL update, right? Yeah, man. You already know what time it is We're gonna get into all that later 80 93 make sure you come through later Now what else was I getting ready to say oh We talked about the grudges we talked about flacco talked about Lamar Jackson. I really forgot now I really forgot You would have kept Terrence West over Dixon. Well, Terrence West is obviously more reliable than Dixon And they they said that Dixon showed that he got some some burst or whatever, but I'm not again I'm not getting into all of that man. I'm not getting into all of that night I'm not when I say getting into I'm not getting into all the hype not getting on into all the hype because It's we got a while to go man. We got a we got a long ways to go man Ken of Dixon. Oh, he said what do I expect out of Ken of Dixon? I don't expect anything out of Ken of Dixon And when I say that it's just that what he's been over the past two years He's made me not not expect anything out of him if we can get him if we can actually get him this season That would be nice because when he played for us before he looked decent He let me look all that because he ain't really have time to look all that because he was gone Because he was gone. He got injured. He got suspended all that stuff But I'm not expecting anything out of him because of what he's been these past two years I hope he because everybody loves him. Everybody loves Ken of Dixon guy. I'm still waiting to see him But I just I hope the best for him. I hope he can stay healthy and hope he can stay clean I hope they ain't he ain't got no PD problems. Hope he ain't got no injury problems this year I just want to do to stay stay clean man. Oh, but y'all can't probably catch the ball We saw that and I meant to talk about that in the stream yesterday, but I never got around to it the whole brashar Perry man catching I think it's just That people took the picture they put it side-by-side with Jaleel Scott. I think and I think I feel like people were just over over hyping stuff man over hyping stuff How do we know Alex Collins didn't have a fluke year like Justin four set? We don't we don't and we won't know that until This year we won't know till this year. So we'll see we'll see if it was a fluke even though Justin four set some but something that somebody brought out was that a Justin's first four set when he had his go-off year He had Gary Kubiak Gary Kubiak left scheme changed and that was that so that could be another factor Offensive line could be a factor There's just so many different factors But we'll see cuz he's gonna have Alice Collins is gonna have the same offensive coordinator His offensive line should be even better even though they were pretty good last year even with all the injuries Apparently that he caught that pass. Okay. See thank you. Thank you Marcus because people were just they were hyping that up Man, they were going out of control over that and they were just hyping it up to the point It's like come on y'all y'all like really this is what y'all doing. What's up Thomas? Collins didn't even run behind yonder like exactly offensive line should be like 20,000 times better man I keep saying it I keep saying that shout out to my boy meet you said he felt like it was a take But now I think this is a this could be one of the best offensive lines that we ever had in Baltimore It could be I think so Devon Bush said he haven't seen Tim White. No video. No talk. I'm getting scared. He's forgotten He ain't forgotten. He been out there. He just not number six anymore. He's number 14 So I caught that either today or yesterday. I'm like, okay, Tim White changes numbers Last time we had to receive a changes number it was Beshaw Perry man. It didn't go so well for him So I hope it ain't the same case But yeah, Tim White is number 14. So you when you look at the videos and stuff you see number 14 That's him. I think I found that out on on Instagram because they tagged them I think and then and I clicked on the tag and it was Tim White Political questions if it's about that whole NFL with the knee thing I'm just tired of that. This ain't a political channel. So we ain't gonna get into it But I'm just I'm just tired of this thing. It's it's just annoying. So, yeah, no, yeah, no, no political stuff We just oh Yeah, shout out to my boy JB smooth with the hashtag stick to football That's that's the thing on here. We stick to football the political stuff We we try to stay out of all of that because I don't yeah, that's this ain't the place for that We stay neutral here and that's it so That's that man But yeah, I appreciate y'all. Thank y'all for coming through Flacco man. Thank you Flacco. Thank you Flacco. Who should be on the Madden cover? Not not not one Raven I don't want no Raven on there. No Ravens. No Ravens on the Madden cover. Leave that Madden cover for all other 31 teams No Ravens. Don't put them on there, please Anybody else though anybody else who was on last year was last year the Brady year or was that the year before? Was last year Brady? I think it was no no Lamar Jackson. No, we don't want it What's up, man? He appreciates you man. Oh, it was Brady. Okay Well, I guess the curse he didn't end up getting hurt. No. He oh, yeah He got his love. He got his thumb lacerated or something like that, but Ended up losing the Super Bowl too, but he didn't really get hurt So which Lamar went to the stillest since this is last year till he retires Oh, you think Ben's only gonna be one more year. Okay. Oh, they just get back to smash my football punchman I hope so man. Hope so I missed those Ravens man. I Missed those where the Ravens new pieces added for one year went running with Flacco for the future Lamar Jackson Well, Crabtree, I think for one year. I think depending on how he plays it could end up being for one year But he could end up staying and it could be like nice little transition It just depends on so much depends on how this year goes because they could end up keeping Flacco they can end up keeping them if they end up keeping them then Lamar Jackson will still be waiting and We'll see so John Brown was signed for one year Willie Snead was signed for two years Crabtree was technically signed for three years, but they could cut him after after this year and still be fine And then you got all nothing after that but young receivers for sure I'm in his contract to be up if he even makes a team Max Williams his contract to be up even if he even makes a team Nick Boyle His might be up to after I think next year I think maybe But if he even makes a team So, yeah, man, it's and The other wide receivers Chris Moore, he will still be there next year Tim White is an undrafted free agent. So it just depends at a boy Joe He undrafted free agent for those guys not even locks to make the roster But the only guys that you will still have will be lastly Jalil Scott Chris Moore and Willie Snead so we'll see we'll see we'll see how everything goes still is need to grab Lamar I can I believe they traded our best wire receivers Montague's Brian was definitely not your best wire receiver. I'll take a Antonio Brown and juju over Montague is Brian any day because those dudes are consistent Those dudes are monsters and those dudes don't play scared Montague is Brian is a nice receiver He got height speed. He can catch he can make plays. He can do all that stuff But when he gets scared, he just takes himself out of the games and he just looks he looks like a punk sometimes Man, he just looks so scary. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is He just looks so scary. And it's kind of weird to see it.  I don't know. But anyway Appreciate you. Sorry, Wani came just at the very end. We about to get off of here now But thank y'all for coming through. Thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe Tell your friends to subscribe to tell your friends family whether they ravens fans or not if they just love football I love talking football and love actually hearing their voice heard during the live streams and stuff Tell them to come through man.  Oh, that's not good to hear Everybody to come through man. Appreciate all y'all. Thank you to everybody. Thank you for every like Thank you for every subscription every comment every live stream comment every Twitter every tweet every Instagram message Everything thank you all for everything. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all and I'll see y'all later on maybe in about in about an hour So thank you. Love y'all. I'm out man


So a few days ago, I made a video where I talked about how I was going to distro hop from Arch to fedora and I Tried to make it clear in that video that this was for a good period of time because I was Sick of messing up arch and I take full responsibility for my arch system Crapping out on me and I will continue to do that, but I wanted a stable system I was just ready to stop the madness that sometimes comes with arch So I hopped to fedora and there were a few How shall we say snarky comments in the comment section of that video claiming that I would never make it more than a day on Fedora well Here I am like five or six days past that and I'm still on fedora. So Nana Nana boo boo I can't believe I just said that I did just say I Should edit that part out, but I probably won't anyways The point is is that I'm still on fedora and I'm learning some Interesting things I talked a little bit in that video or maybe it was a video after that about how I had gotten away from the idea Or the knowledge of how to actually build packages because I was so reliant on the you are I never had to actually build anything for myself And you are helper just did it for me, right? So over the last few days I've built more packages on Linux than I probably ever have before Because not everything is in the fedora repositories. It's not the you are unfortunately And while I have been somewhat impressed with what is in the fedora repositories There's just some like I said stuff that's just not there So I've had to build quite a bit of stuff but fedora does have a solution for the things that aren't in its repositories and that is called COPR now COPR stands for community projects and when it was first introduced to me I was introduced as the AUR of fedora and in some ways It is like they you are but on fedora in other ways. It's not really they you are in fedora First of all, let's just talk about what it is and then we can talk a little bit about what it isn't what it aims to do is give you access to a community maintained repository or actually a whole bunch of repositories of Software that is never going to make it into the Main fedora repositories so things that are actually Compiled by the community so in that way it's very similar to the AUR, right? That is a collection or a repository of software that is put together by the community and that's exactly what COPR is it is a collection of software put together by the community and Similar to the AUR you're going to find a lot of Libraries on COPR. These are libraries that are maintained by the community that really don't need to be included by Fedora in their repositories and just like they you are you'll also find a lot of software that is Very niche so it's not really needed by a lot of people therefore again not ever going to be put into the main repositories That's the kind of gist and the similarities you're going to have with the AUR You're going to have a wide selection of software according to the COPR website, which I can actually show you right here There are 19,074 projects on COPR now That is pretty impressive. That's a lot of software. I would bet and I have no Backing evidence to support this claim But I would bet that the vast majority of that software is probably lot libraries for software Development I could be wrong about that But from what I've seen like so for example if I search for Rofi emoji here and that will take a minute to come up That's one thing you'll notice about it is that it's very very slow to search But that's kind of beside the point if you see the results when they do come up You'll notice that they are very much Software development related. I mean if you were to look through the AUR You'd probably see that the vast majority of the stuff in the AUR is also software development related just because it's easier for The community to maintain a whole bunch of libraries than it is to have a small group of people at the door to do it So now that that's up you can kind of like I see you can see there's a whole bunch of Python stuff here and stuff like that one thing you don't see actually is Rofi emoji. That's not actually there and That's where we're gonna start talking about the differences just a little bit.  It's not that big now and Like I said, the vast majority of stuff you search for on it is not there Unfortunately, that's just kind of the way it is. I've searched for Rofi emoji. I've looked for NC spot It's stuff like that's there now. There are some exceptions to this. So like uberzug is there so if you don't know what uberzug is that's a plug-in or a Terminal tool that allows you to view images inside of a terminal It's useful for things like Ranger and stuff like that where you can view images inside of Ranger So there are some opportunities for just regular people who use fedora to use the copr and find software that they need So those are golden opportunities because they don't happen all that often Unfortunately, the other place where copr kind of differs from the AUR is that it's not a single repository when I was first introduced to the copr I was really excited because I thought it was like, you know, it can a fedora maintained repository a fedora hosted repository that is maintained by the community like it's Place where people like pool all the software and you can just go there and it's like there you are That's not the way it works. Really every single thing you're looking at here is hosted on their own repositories And when I say hosted I'm not really taking like where the software resides But each one of these is their own repositories. So if you want to add this you do pseudo DNF Enable oh, excuse me pseudo DNF COPR Enable and then the username of the person who's who's created the repository and then the name of the Repository and then you hit that and then you could do pseudo DNF install Whatever it is, right? So for example the uberzug I don't really remember who the username so you just do user and then the name of the repository was uberzug Like so I'd hit that and then I could do after I that was done you could do pseudo install uberzug like so Because it was adding it added that repositories to your list of sources Now if that seems familiar to you, that's because it is familiar to you because if you've ever used Ubuntu Prior to the snap days and you've added a PPA That's the exact process of adding a PPA in Ubuntu You add the repository then you can install the software. That's exactly the way the PPAs work The difference between this and PPAs is that people host their own PPAs It's usually on their own web server as far as I can tell COPR is hosted by Fedora like people will put their repositories on Fedora's or the in this place the Fedora info crowds Website and there's their web server. That's where it's hosted So that's a little bit different than PPAs But the process of adding them is almost exactly the same now Maybe there's some technological things underneath it that are completely different. That's probably the case but the user-facing actions of Doing this is exactly the same as same as PPAs and if you've ever used the PPA You'll know that it has inherent problems So one of the problems and it's the biggest problem is that by doing it this way a lot of the software that you're going to encounter is Really out of date like I'm talking about years and years out of date because the person who created the repository no longer maintains it and It doesn't matter that Fedora hosts the stuff You still have the same problem with people as you do with PPAs in that people will create a repository for pieces of software that They need which is usually the reason why someone would create would create a repository and then they just ignore or forget about it You know in that piece of software will never be updated again now. There is a Mechanism on CPR where it actually builds the software, right? And one of the reasons why that's interesting isn't necessarily because it does anything for the user You still have to get it on your computer, but all it is interesting from a User or consumer perspective in that you'll find a lot of projects that failed to build So whether they're not there to old the build or they rely on a library that is out of date or too far ahead Whatever may be the case you'll find a lot of software that is considered failed And you won't be able to download it or get it to work on your computer So those two things where either the software is significantly out of date or you find packages that just won't run It's pretty common. I've come across several of them that are in that case one of them actually being uber-zug one of the Repositories that I found uber-zug on that was two years old and it wouldn't run because we relied on Python Libraries that were much older and we're farther ahead than that now another aspect of this whole thing being like PPAs is that anyone can create a repository therefore if you search for uber-zug multiple people have uploaded repositories with uber-zug on it and Which one you use is kind of hit or miss because you kind of got to go through them all to find one of them that will finally work and that is kind of a big downside because it takes time to Go through those things now I can hear the people out there who don't like the AUR Already saying well Matt you have out of date projects on the you are all the time. That's absolutely true But the AUR has a very good moderation team that does a good job of marking packages as out of date so that happens all the time And because there's so much software on the AUR You are almost certainly presented with the most update up-to-date stuff when you search for it Because there's just so much stuff there You're never going to find a situation in the AUR where you don't find the thing you're looking for or at least it's going To be very very rare now the whole point of this was I wanted to see if the C OPR Was comparable to the AUR and the bottom line is that it's just not it's just not anywhere close to the AUR And anyone who tries to tout it as a replacement for the AUR is just lying to you because it's just not now It's possible Maybe even likely then There are aspects to the C OPR that i'm missing so maybe it's good for Developers in a way that is just not good for me It's 100 percent possible that if you need a whole bunch of libraries for your fit you for your development project The C OPR is a great place to get it but for mainstream Software that is not available in the main repositories of fedora It's not the greatest thing because just a lot of the stuff isn't there and you can't really blame it It's nice that it exists It's just if you go into it with the expectation like I did of it being a good replacement for the AUR I wasn't expecting one-to-one. I was the AUR is gold standard You're never going to find something that is as good as the AUR But I was expecting it to be at least in the same ballpark. It's not unfortunately. It's just not so that is the C OPR I Like I said, I'm glad that exists and I think that it has potential But it also has some of those same pitfalls that ppa's do And that's just kind of disappointed so that is it for this video if you have comments about this You can leave those in the comment section below If you want to follow me on twitter you can do so at the linux cast you if you want to follow me on Massa on or any of my other social media networks you can do so those links are in the video description below Right below the like button As they say If you want to support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the linux cast you are welcome to do so I truly do appreciate everybody who does support me on patreon and youtube It is just continually blowing my mind that people support me In whatever manner that they can so I really truly do appreciate it and I never have the appropriate words or the Significant amount of words that I would need to say thank you as much as I Need to so thanks everybody for your support. 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Escape with us now to New Orleans during Mardi Gras behind the gary of which lies a nightmare world of terror and death, as John and Gwen Bagney tell it in The Man Who Stole the Bible. I didn't mean to steal the Bible, that wasn't my intention. Well, I've never taken as much as a towel or an ashtray out of a hotel. And if I'd known the night of terror would lead me into, I'd never have taken it at all. Mardi Gras in New Orleans, a gay time, a lot of laughs if you're in on it. But me, I was stuck in a stuffy hotel room waiting for a call from the boss. And the sound of all those people out in the street having fun got on my nerves. Operator. Operator. Operator. Come on, operator. This is Mr. Cummings, room 302. What have I happened to that bellhop I sent for? Would you speak louder? I can't hear you, sir. I said this is... Just a minute. Operator. Operator. What was it you wanted? A bellhop. I wanted him to bring me something to read, anything. You said half an hour ago, he was on his way up. Has he answered your call yet, Mr. Cummings? No, he has not. Well, I'm sorry, sir. The hotel's so crowded. The Mardi Gras, you know. It's almost impa... Operator. Oh, nuts. I paced back and forth wishing the boss had called me so I could get out of the room.  He's that kind of a guy who expects you to be on tap all the time. There was no radio in the room and nothing to read. I went through all the drawers hoping somebody had left behind a magazine or a seed catalog, anything. And then I found it. The Bible. The Gideon Bible. For years I've seen them in hotel rooms, but I've never paid any attention to them. Now I opened the book. First Samuel chapter 19. I lay down in the bed and started to read. A knock surprised me. I'd forgotten about the bellhop. I got up to go to the door and I realized I had the Bible in my hand. It's a fine thing when a man feels embarrassed, caught reading the Bible, but that's how I felt embarrassed. I stuffed it under the pillow and went to the door. When you sure took your time... Oh, I thought it was a bellhop. Who are you? I was detective. Sorry to disturb you. Well, it's all right. What's the matter? Seems that the woman I had this room before you lost her pocketbook. She thinks she left it here. I'm sorry. There's no pocketbook here. Well, I'd better take a look. Well, I'd have seen it if it was here, but come on in if you want. Thanks. See, there's no pocketbook in here. Yeah, but she's sure she left it here. I'll have to go through everything. Look, there's nothing in there but my stuff. You have to... Well, it's a matter, don't you want me to look for it? No, it isn't that. I just don't like people going through my things, that's all. Look, she had some money in it. Now you wouldn't want me to say you refused to let me look around for it, would you? No, I'm sorry. Go ahead. But I've been through all those drawers already. Well, I just take another look. It doesn't seem likely that the maids would have overlooked it, but once in a while something gets left in a drawer. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, but there's nothing in there. No, I guess you're right. That's amazing that things people leave behind in hotels. Yeah, I guess it is. Yeah, nobody else been in here, have they? No, nobody. Can't even get a bellhop in here. You've been out of the room? And look, I'm not responsible for anything that was left here. No, of course not. Well, I'm sorry to have bothered you. No, I'm sorry. Oh, say, tell that bellhop to get up here, will you? Yeah, I'll tell him. Good night. Who is that strange guy? That I suppose all house-dicks are. I don't know why I've never had anything to do with one before this. I laid down again and went back to reading the Bible. Once I got used to the old-fashioned language, I found it pretty interesting. The story of David, anyway. A guy being chased by everybody, not knowing who his enemies were, every minute expecting to get killed. I was down to the part where David's wife puts a dummy in his bed as a decoy to save his life when I was interrupted again. This time I automatically stuck the Bible into the pillow and went to the door. Hello? Well, hello. I'm having the most awful time. I've tried and tried, but it just won't work. And the room's so stuffy. How's that? The window in my room, it won't open. Would you open it for me? Oh, sure, sure. Just show me which room is it. Right next to yours, just around this corner. Room 300. I have the same trouble on bus as the windows never open. It drives me mad. You can see how stuffy the room is. This window? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it did. Yeah, so does this one. I can't understand it. You're sure you're trying? You don't think I'd come to your door and ask you to come over here if I didn't need something, do you? It's been done. I won't argue with that. But now that you're here, do you like to have a drink? For your trouble, I mean. No, no, I don't think so. You can watch the parade much better here than on your side of the building. No, no, I can't. Listen. What's the matter? I'm sorry, I gotta go. That's my phone. Wait, don't go. You can have the call transferred here. But it's silly to go all the way back. Oh, Cummings. Oh, yes, sir. Yeah, I've been waiting for your call. Now, look, I covered the whole territory down here. Things looked pretty healthy. You see, the main difficulty has been... I stared at my briefcase. I'd left it on the dresser. Now it was on the bed. And everything had been pulled out of it. The closet door was ajar. The drawers and the bureau were open. My Gladstone apparently hadn't been touched, but everything else had. I heard the boss talking trends and business conditions. My mind was on a girl who wanted a window open. A window that wasn't stuck while somebody searched my room.  There's no reason now for me to stay in the room. I gathered up my stuff and I took the Bible from under the pillow. Funny, I'd gotten interested in it. I wanted to go on reading it. So I stuck it in my top coat and walked out of the room. On my way to the elevator, I got a sudden impulse. I stopped in front of room 300 and knocked. Oh, excuse me, where? Nobody here now, mister. The lady checked out. Well, that's impossible. I was just here. I didn't know anything about that, but she checked out a couple of minutes ago. I gotta clean it up after her right now. I'm gonna be glad when Marty draws over. Everybody goes crazy. Hotel goes crazy. People check in, check out. And steal everything that ain't tied down. Steal? I said steal. Ashtrays. Wouldn't be surprised if they take the beds next. The pocket suddenly felt like a pound of uranium. I wondered if the cleaning woman could read the guild on my face. Thought she put her wastebasket down in the hall and went back in to clean the room. For a second, I considered taking the Bible back, the room 302. Maybe I would have if it hadn't been for the discarded book jacket in the wastebasket. It was gaudy, red, and yellow. I grabbed it up, put it around the Bible.  Show this gentleman to 506. Oh, checking out, mister Cummings? Try it. Let me see. You were in room 302. 302. Oh. What's the matter? Oh, mister Cummings, I've had so much trouble over that room. I was supposed to hold it for a lady, but you can't keep rooms vacant during Mardi Gras. I gave her the room next to you, but she kicked my crazy to the manager. Next to me? Mm-hmm, yeah. Room 300, she checked out just a few minutes ago. Well, I don't know what this is all about, but there's something peculiar going on in room 302. Peculiar? Yeah, I didn't mind the house detective coming in to look for the person. I didn't like having my stuff searched while I was out of the room. Search? That's right. I said searched. Mister Cummings, you say the house detective did this? Yeah, he said the woman who had the room before me left the person. Oh, but that's impossible. Now, what do you mean? Well, a man had the room ahead of you. Yes, I'm positive of it. Just the moment I had the bed just the right here. Mm-hmm. Yes. Mm-hmm. And Mr. Gregory. Mm-hmm. Now, the house detective isn't on duty today, but when he comes in tomorrow... On duty? Well, then what was he doing in my room? Today, mister Cummings? Of course, the day tonight. A tall guy with black hair. Oh, there's some mistake.  He's home sick. It had the makings of an interesting little intrigue. But I left the mystery of room 302 with the room clerk and went to the cigar stand. It was eight o'clock. My train wouldn't leave until midnight. Hey, yes, sure what'll it be? Cigarettes or cigars? Cigars. Three coronas. No, no, no. Make it sick. Always like to sell cigars. Men don't smoke cigars like they used to. Cigarettes, that's the fashion today. But give me a good cigar every time. Somebody's having a good time. Oh, they all have a good time during the carnival? Say, I wonder where I could check my bag and briefcase for a little while. You're going to see the parade? Well, I thought I would and mill around a little bit. I've got a couple hours to kill. Well, I'll be glad to keep it for you. I'm on duty till midnight. Would you? Well, that's mighty nice of you. Oh, don't mind at all. Mardi Gras, something to see. You shouldn't miss it. If you'll have more fun if you're in a costume, the hotel's got it for rent. No, no, no. Thanks. I'll go as I am. He stuck my stuff under his counter and I elbowed my way across the crowded lobby to the street door. Through the glass, my eyes met the eyes of another man, the tall man with black hair, the man who had said he was the house detective. I swung the hotel door open. I had a few questions on it. I asked that boy, and Mardi was swallowed up in the crowd. A big hand clapped me on the shoulder and a voice boomed in my ear. There you are, sinner. I whirled around and looked into the mask of a laughing, red-faced devil. Don't try to evade me, sinner. I've come to collect you with my nice, shiny pitchfork. But when the devil comes for you, your time is up. All I could see in the mask was a pair of eyes. They were green eyes, and they were laughing. And the devil threw his arm around my shoulder and urged me along the street. I balked a little. I hadn't had any to drink, and it wasn't kind of silly, but before I knew what happened, the clown grabbed my other arm. Let's take the sinner to the fiery burden. And the two of them, the devil and the clown, were propelling me down the street toward a parked car. Come along, sinner. Fire him for the burden. Wait a minute. Push him in, clown. Get it, sinner. Hey, you guys, let me out. Where are you going? All right, let's have it. Bye, boy. Hey, you're not drunk. Don't waste time on him. Look, I don't know who you are. He hasn't got it on. What did you do with it? Where is it? I told you I haven't got it. That's just to let you know we're not playing. Come on, let's take it again. Where's the Bible? Look, I tell you I haven't got it. I had it, but I guess I lost it. Lost it? Where did you lose it? I don't know. Don't do that, sinner. Look, I'm telling you the truth. I haven't got it anymore. All right, you haven't got it. But you'll tell me where it is you understand if I have to kill you to find out. What are you stopping here for? Well, a crowd. I can't get through. Come on, let's get moving. Get out of here. Well, what do you want me to do? Drive over? Look, fellas, a shot. Drunk and outside bear opened the back door of the car and started climbing over us. Nothing would stop them from weaving through. They thought it was fun, pushing and shoving each other.  And suddenly I knew this was escape. I climbed out of the car. I ran blindly away from them. I saw a cab at an intersection. I ran out, opened the door. And there he was, in the back seat, the phony house detective. I slammed the cab door and bolted across the street. I was a policeman on the corner directing traffic. I ran up to him. Hey, hey, where do you think you're going? He's trying to kill me. You gotta help me. Kill you?  The devil. He's after me. The devil you say? Yeah, and the clown, too. Not Mickey Mouse. I mean it. I'm serious. You're drunker than you look, son. I haven't had a drink.  And why would they be doing that? Because they want the Bible. The Bible? Yeah. Look, you see, I stole the Bible and here they come down. Who? The devil and the clown across the street. You gotta get me out of it.  Oh, now, sure. Now, take it easy. Oh, there you are, sinner. Come on. What are you trying to do? Get us in trouble? Trouble? Sure. He's going to miss the party. Don't listen to them. This young fella claims you're trying to kill him. Me? Oh, no, not me. But if he doesn't get to that party pretty soon, his wife will kill him. He'll come and got a wife. There isn't any party. They're lying, I tell you. Now, you'll be all the good boys. Now, move on. Go someplace else and settle your squabble. I gotta keep this traffic move. Please, officer, please. The policeman said, come on. Officer. Now, beat it. Now, go on with it. I demand to be arrested. I demand it. Go on, I said. Now, go on.  What? If he wasn't Mardi Gras, I'd run you in. And you want to arrest me? Okay. But remember, I didn't want to do it. But that's a dirty Yankee trick, striking an officer. All right, young fella, that does it. You're under arrest. We'll return to Escape and today's story, The Man Who Stole the Bible in Just a Moment. For Friday Night Entertainment, packed with something or other, we heartily recommend Rayburn and Finch, those two unpredictable record rascals who make merry Friday nights on most of these same CBS radio stations. Right now, the melody-minded monkey-shiners are up to their elbows in a contest. They're determined to give away discs by the thousands. Also, a few automobiles and some trips to New York. Enjoy the music and get in on the contest details tomorrow night. You'll have fun trying, more fun winning. It's Rayburn and Finch on CBS Radio Friday Nights. And now, we return you to The Man Who Stole the Bible, tonight's story of Escape. I sat in the drunk tank in the New Orleans jail and tried to figure it out. Who were the devil in the clown and the phony house detective? Why was the Bible so important that they'd even kill me to get it? My bags were back at the cigar counter in the hotel. My train was scheduled to leave at midnight. How was I going to get out of New Orleans? Already, it was 10 o'clock and as long as I stayed in jail, I'd be safe. But that didn't last long. I was there a half hour when a cop came for me and took me to the death sergeant. Yeah. Here's your person belonging to Cummins. You're released. You can go now. Try to behave yourself. We're pretty busy tonight. Released? Yeah. You knew you were a looking guy? Cold pepper decided not to press charges against you. You knew what you could get for striking an officer? But aren't you going to hold me? Your fine's been paid. Now go on. Get on out of here. And keep out of trouble, will you? But I am in trouble. That's what I tried to tell the cop, but he wouldn't listen to me. I had to hit him. My fine. Somebody paid my fine. Yeah. Yeah, that's been paid. But who? Who paid it? I don't know who it was. He didn't give me no name. He just paid it. Was it a man in a devil's costume? Huh? Or a clown? Oh, now look. What did he look like? How do I know what he looked like? He was an ordinary looking guy, tall, big, and he had black hair. He was a detective. The who?   I had my leader come into the station and she moved so quietly. She was a nun, and she was talking excitedly in French. I wasn't paying much attention to her. I was thinking instead of my own problem. The house detective had paid my fine. He wanted me out of jail. He wanted me loose on the street. Why? And the devil and the clown. Are they with him? Were all of them waiting outside that door for me? When I please, I wish I could help you. But I can't understand the word you're saying. Oh, English Kate. She speaks a little English, sister. Oh, pardon, monsieur. Un masquerade. Costume. The people think masquerade. No masquerade. Huh? Look, I think she's trying to say that people on the streets think she's wearing a masquerade costume. Merci, merci bien, monsieur. I am loose. You mean lost? Oui, monsieur, lost. I am expect at convent au Vieux Carré. Oh, the Vieux Carré? That's the French Quarter, eh? Exactement, oui. I try for taxicab. The crowd, how you say, push me around. Pouvez-vous envoyer un de vos gendarmes? What? Gendarmes. Oh, she wants you to send a policeman to help her get to the convent. Oui, monsieur. Oh. Well, I'm sorry, sister. I'd be glad to. But I ain't got anybody in right now. If you don't mind sticking around for a while, I'll be... Sticking around. The sergeant, the prefect, says he's sorry and if you'll wait, there's no one available right now to help you. Wait a minute. The nuns stood there, frightened and bewildered, out of place in the police station. But for me, it was a miraculous break. Sure, I could walk out of that police station with her. And if they were waiting outside, waiting to get me, I could walk right by them. They wouldn't dare touch me as long as I was with the nun. I could take her to the convent. Once there, I'd be safe. Je suis désolé, que puis-je faire? I'll take the sister to the convent, sergeant. Well, it's OK with me if it's OK with her. Merci, monsieur. Merci mille fois. As she walked out of the police station, I was wrong to help her, yes, but also to steady my own fear. Any minute, I expected to see one or all of them, the devil, the clown, the house detective. But they weren't in sight. There were people milling about on the street, but not the three I feared. And strangely, not finding them there frightened me more than ever. I found a cab and gave the driver the address of the convent. The nun and I didn't try to talk. I realized this whole thing was difficult for her, and I didn't feel like talking. Too much had happened to me for one night. The cab pulled up in front of an ancient building in the French Quarter, crumbling cement and wrought iron work. We got out and I walked with her to the big front door. The nun raised the knocker, and I knew I'd been had. You! What is wrong? Fingernails! Red polished fingernails! You're not a nun! Where've you been? Harry, boys, he's wise. It was the devil and the clown. They yanked me into the house. And the girl stared at her. Back in the police station, I hadn't really looked at her face. Her black robes had spelled freedom to me. That's as far as I thought. But now I knew I'd seen her before.  And her hair had been blonde and long. And she wanted a window open, a window that wasn't stuck. You've given us a lot of trouble. I'm sorry, but I don't... Get very patient. Now we want the Bible. I told you before I don't have it. You had it? I had it. Yes, I had it. I took it. I don't know why I took it, but I lost it. Who sent you to get it? Oh, man, Lim. All right. Who you working for? Poloni? Look, look, look. There's some mistake. I'm a salesman. I sell washing machines. You're lying! Look, I tell you... Where's the stuff? Has Poloni got it? What stuff? I don't know any Poloni. Ouch! You're slapping me around for it. That won't get you any place. Oh, won't it? Let me talk to him. Look, if you're covering up for Poloni... Who's Poloni? I don't know any Poloni. Poloni wouldn't take a beating for you. I tell you...  We'll pay him nothing. You'll hand over that Bible or tell us where the junk's stashed or so. Help me.  So that's what it is. Dope. Yeah, Mr. Innocent. That's what it is. Dope. Harrowing and cocaine, a hundred grand worse. Stop it. You kill him, we'll never find it. Listen to me. What's your name? Konings. You work for Poloni Cummins. Nobody but Poloni knows about that Bible. You came to hijack the stuff. Tell you... Don't know Poloni. Stop lying. Poloni knew our carrier was hot. But he had to drop the stuff somewhere in New Orleans. You're wasting your time, baby. I'll make him talk. Are you gonna talk? I do.  You've got to believe me. He hit me with the gun. I tried to keep my eyes open. I hang onto consciousness. Across the room, I saw the door open and in it stood a man with another gun.  The phony house detective. Was his name Poloni? I didn't know how long I was out. When I came to, I was lying on a bed. My head was throbbing.  It was a cold cloth on my eyes. I tried to think. Why did I hurt so? Oh, yeah. The Bible. They wanted the Bible. But I didn't have it. That was a good thing.  And then I smelled something. A strong cigar. It burned the inside of my nose. I rolled over to get away from it and opened my eyes. The devil and the clown were gone. So was the girl. I was alone with the phony house detective. All right. Let's not waste any more time. What did you do with the Bible? Where are the others? They've been taken care of. Look, you took the Bible that belongs in this room. Now what did you do with it? Yeah, room 302. What am I doing back in the hotel? You have no right to touch that Bible. Now think, what did you do with it? Where is it? Oh, look, I told them. I must have lost it. I don't know. I got it. The gentleman who left his suitcases with me. Mr. Cummings. Come on in. Who are you? I run the cigar stand in the lobby. I saw you bring Mr. Cummings in. If you don't mind my saying, so quite tight. I'm going off duty in a little while and I thought he needed his things. You see, he checked them with me. Thanks. I almost forgot. Here's his book. No, don't leave the book. I don't want the book. You can have it. I'll take the book. Don't give it to him. All right. Thanks for your trouble. Don't mention it. Hope he feels better tomorrow. At last, the Bible.  You know, that's a pretty clever stunt, covering the Bible with a whodunit jacket. Oh, look, Poloni, I don't know. I swear I just took it. Poloni? No, not Poloni. Let's see. Third book, second chapter. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, chapter one, two. Yes, here's the address of the warehouse where the stuff is. I don't understand. If you're not Poloni, who are you? John Stang, United States Treasury Department, narcotics division. Tea man? Well, I thought you... Look, you made my job very difficult tonight, Mr. Cummings. We traced the narcotics carrier all the way around the world of New Orleans to Room 302. But when we arrested him, he was clean. He didn't have the evidence. Room 302 was the link. The girl, Frenchie, was to take this room, and I would have followed her to where the evidence was stashed. It was as simple as that.  Oh, why didn't you tell me you were a government man when you came in tonight to look for the pocketbook? How did I know that you weren't a new member of the mob? Look, take my advice, Mr. Cummings. Quit stealing things out of hotels. Oh, look, I never stole a thing in my life before. This is the first time... But there's one thing that I can't figure out. Why did you steal a Bible? You're not going to believe this. Well, honest, I just wanted to finish the story. You have just heard Escape, produced and directed by William N. Robeson. Tonight's original radio play, The Man Who Stole the Bible, was written by John and Gwen Bagney.  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