I guess we'll start at 12.15, I'm Gigi Barnel, a board member. And I want to welcome you to today's history fight. Tom Weiner is no stranger to this room, because a year or two ago, he gave a presentation on this book called The Sur, which was turned into a play, and a performance of that was filmed. And it's now being shown very locally. He'll talk about that in a few minutes. Tom is a retired sixth grade teacher who taught at the Smith College campus school for 40 years. He's the father of four, a grandfather of four more. We need to get all of these little details in. Today, he's speaking about a different book, photograph letters on wings, how microfilm, the male, helped win World War II. And this tells the story of the one and a half billion letters sent to and from the front in England and America during World War II, tracing the history of microfilm from its invention concurrently with the camera itself in 1839. And it's used in the stage of Paris in 1870 to transmit documents and letters by a carrier pigeon. This book uses many photographs and illustrations to capture the inventions, the process, and the artwork used to advertise the use of B-mail, which enabled many more troops and supplies to be shipped by greatly decreasing the space need for the male. So further ado, thanks for all your time here. I forgot I wrote all that. That's a little bit of my.  You reminded me of that, that's it. OK, so good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me back. Special thanks to George Norton, who was the conduit through especially his wonderful wife, Cindy, working my talk for probably 25 or 30 of those years on the test of music teacher, and every year we did a talent show together, which is a highlight of my campus career. So thanks for coming. Is there anyone in the audience who, before they saw the descriptor, had ever heard of B-mail? So far, that's been on my track record. And it is, as I'm especially the one who found out, I know now, amazing to me, that it's gone completely under the radar. What was it? Yeah, there you go. It's called B-mail, and actually I'm going to read a little bit about exactly that. When I would say B-mail, someone would say, and I'll tell you what they would say. You can imagine. V is in victory. V is in victory. So World War II has been presented through a variety of media in tremendous detail, from the battles and strategies to the lives of the soldiers and civilians who were so deeply affected around the globe. There have been books and films on a wide range of subjects over the 70-plus years since the war ended. It would seem extremely unlikely at this point, but there to be a subject that has not received sufficient treatment. And yet there is at least one. I'm referring to an essential aspect of the war that virtually no one, with whom I have spoken since I learned about it, is familiar, B-mail. When I would tell friends and acquaintances about the book that I was working on, I'd hear email? A book about email? Everybody knows about it. Why waste your time on a book about such a well-known part of our culture? No, I said email. What the heck is that? That the word sounds so much like our widespread email only adds to the misconceptions that surround the phenomenon. To complicate matters further, if you do a Google search, leaving out the hyphen, which you can't include in speech, what pops up first is a website that features this definition. A B-mail account is a second email account just for your voicemail messages. V-mail, with its hyphen placed appropriately, originally called victory-mail, and at first written with the Morse code for V as V dot dot dash, was the means by which over a billion letters to and from the United States, and at least half a billion to and from the United Kingdom, where it was known as air graph, were sent and received during the war years. Pioneered in England in the 30s, it was a system that employed microfilm and the machinery required to reproduce letters in miniature form so they could be shipped safely, securely, and inexpensively, to and from the US and British soldiers fighting throughout the world. When the microfilm letters, and you can see a picture of this 1,600 on a roll, so 1,600 letters would be on something that big, arrived at their destination, they had the equipment already put together no matter where it was within days, Iwo Jima, all the islands in the Pacific, the letters were enlarged and delivered to the recipient so they could be read. In this day and age, where communication is instantaneous, it is hard for us to imagine the importance that written correspondence had for those fighting and those at home during World War II. Knowing that one's letters were going to reach their destination faster and more efficiently as a result of air graph and V mail was a morale booster of major proportions on both sides of the ocean. I was at a museum, a maritime museum in Astoria, Oregon last September and they had a photograph of a ship that had been sunk and they had retrieved the mail and it was a complete water-bottom mess. No one was gonna ever read those letters. Not one letter of this more than a billion and a half was lost because they always had the original. Before it was filmed. So that was another advertisement. Your letter will never not reach its destination. It turns out there was a deeper motive for bringing attention to this virtually unknown and quite intriguing and compelling aspect of history and that's the part about Bill Spied. Man of many careers, from farmer to psychiatric aid at the state hospital to businessman, from bookbinder to teacher of bookbinding, from local historian of Comington to author, had a huge role to play in the effort to get the story of email told. So now I'd like to have you see some of the images that Bill provided for me and others that I got online of what this email actually looked like and what the process entailed along with some other human interest aspects. So if you could start the slideshow. I'm gonna sit down because I'll see it better and I can just give you the high sign on the next sign. Okay, so you heard about this one but this is a picture of the moment when in my 1870, well actually, let me present this the way I intended. Who knew that microfilm was invented concomitantly with standard film in 1839? Now you knew that because it was mentioned. That's okay. Who knew that microfilm documents and letters were attached to the tail feathers of pigeons to break the siege of Paris in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War? Microfilm was a marvelous invention with a fascinating history and the first chapter of the book is the history of microfilm. But thanks to Bill and the internet, I've got all these illustrations that go a long way towards telling the story so we'll go back to telling the story through these pictures. These are all in the book. So the French were so proud of the siege of Paris being broken by this ingenious scheme of attaching documents and letters too to the tail feathers of pigeons as microfilmed-sized documents that they built this incredible statue. The pigeons were flown out in hot air balloons and then flew back into the city. So the hot air balloons there and then if you can see on the corners of the statue are all the pigeons. There's four pigeons below. Irony has its role to play in this story during World War II. No, excuse me, World War I, the Germans, I'm sorry, World War II, when they occupied Paris, they took over the city, saw this statue, destroyed it, melted it down the metal in it and used it for bullets. Petition of the French people in the war. So unbelievable, weird. It's not there anymore. It was the same. It was something that did the statue in the beginning. Yes, it was done by the guy who did the statue in the beginning. Thanks, I'm going to say that. Yep, Bartoldi. Okay, next one. All right, so this was how it started. It started as a British endeavor. And in this book I described the process by which it came to be. There were some incredibly ingenious people. There's also some incredible stories about it in the 19th century. The microfilm being used for pornography. Not surprisingly. And by the time the 1930s rolled around, they figured out they could use it as a way to communicate with ships. And mostly, they've actually, almost all of it was air made. So this picture's a little inaccurate. It maybe started out that way, but the big idea was conserving space on planes. You could put, as you'll see, 1500 or 1600 letters on one roll of film. At least some pictures to show you the difference that made. This talked about the cost of it at that time in England. And this was the beginning of the advertisement. Okay. And who would get involved, but not the Queen Elizabeth, you are mostly familiar with, that's the Queen Mother. And she received the first email that, and she actually, in the next one, you'll see what she wrote in response. But that's looking at, I'm just calling it, it's air breath in England. And the same thing happened for Roosevelt. He was, that's the first email letter that was produced as a result of the inventions. Okay. Now what would happen would be, I actually do have a copy of the letter in the book, I didn't write it as a slide, that Queen Elizabeth wrote in response to this. They'd set up these stations incredibly quickly. This is a whole slideshow that they have on, the internet gave me this show. But that's a V-mail station. And they would set it up as quickly as they possibly could. You'll see some that are way more rustic than that. That's the V-mail detachment. All these people were in charge of getting the microfilm blown off and put it to the right places to get to live. And it was quite an undertaking. Next one. That's an original V-mail stationery. So that's what you had to write it on. All those things at the bottom, which you can't see very well, all the rules, size of penmanship, using the margin lines, you have to really stay within the margin. Originally no photographs could be attached and a lot of people wanted that to change because people were having babies that the fathers never saw. That's one example. Wanting to send a picture of how you looked in your uniform, whatever, I'll get into that in a minute. But this is what it looked like and this is what you had to fill out. It was very, very stylized and uniform. And you can see this is early in the days of it because they had the dot, dot, dot dash. And I had to show a picture of a soldier writing a V-mail letter. They really sold this big time. So this is all part of the advertising, showing someone this is why you do this so your loved one can hear from you. These are the sensors. Censorship was huge. They apparently had five sensors at the start of the war and 2,000 as the war unfolded because the mail volume was ridiculous. And this was true in England too.  Not surprising when the most common was troop location and if there was too much sensitive text and they would just confiscate the letter because at times with the loose lip sink ships, very, very fearful that this could become a problem. They even cut out sections if it was too much of a letter. They take a scissor and cut out part of the letter. That was revealing more than they wanted to share. Excellent. So this is part of the process. This is an operator adjusting the enlarging equipment. This is what they had to have delivered to all the places on the front where they had to blow the letters up. And Kodak was incredibly cooperative. At first, well, they sent out a lot of their operatives to be soldiers. So yes, it took over as it happened with Rosie, all the women. The women were doing all the work on the home front to get this to happen. Next one. And here are some women. This is the one where the film is transferred back to print and this was a huge process they had to cut because they would come out in one long stream of print. They had to cut the individual letters and they had cutting machines that were delivered to the front as well. And they were operated and she's probably on the home front doing it better. New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, those are the three places you mailed your email. It was not in every trust office because that was the way they set up the machinery to take the pictures of it. Next one. That's, you could hold it in your hand, 1600 letters. This was why they did it. Next one. There you see it. So all that mail is in her hand. And then, next one. One box, 47 sacks. Imagine how many people could be, how many troops could be sent in these plans and medical supplies and all the things they needed for the war. Hence the title, How Microfilm Female Helped Win World War II. Next one. So this is each, the facsimile letter reaching the home front, email letters, foster communication, expression, and connection. And that was the big pitch by everybody from the Red Cross to in a few minutes, you'll see all the companies that bandwagon and sent out advertisement to do this. And then each print had to be folded so that the address portion was visible. That's why, any of you remember doing the old air mail letters back in the 50s? Air mail. Yeah, air mail. I had no idea you had to write it a certain way and fold it a certain way. Well, this was as crucial as that. And then put it into the envelopes. Lots of, it's pretty labor intensive. Especially if they didn't have all the machines. Some people didn't have the cutting machines and they were using scissors. So it mattered how much they were able to build it up. Okay. Remember I said some of them were primitive? This is one of the islands in the Pacific.  And then next one, building the station. Happened up immediately. And again, it's amazing to me no one knows about this because this is an amazing undertaking. There's an incredible amount of labor and will and ingenuity. By the way, that station you originally showed was on Guadalcanal. Yeah, Guadalcanal. And the next one. And that's what it looked like when they finally got it up and running. And each part would be a different part of the process. Next one. This was in a Quonset hut. They did the whole thing in a Quonset hut. I'm printing the letters. There was so many facets to this. Someone got the idea that they would use the V-mail to create a newsletter to send all over on the Pacific, the front that was the Pacific. So there's some great little tidbits in here. This is the fourth monthly issue of V-PAC News. We are wondering when we will receive the first edition of the Atlantic News because this is in the Pacific. Or are you fellas too busy over there trying to get your work up to our standards? So there was humor. We understand that Alan Cio is, again, boxing. Alan is beer hard to get up there. And then we would appreciate a few lines each month from ensign Cecilia Simon of our San Francisco station on what is going on there. We understand that eight waves, we love waves more, have been assigned to your station, Ms. Simon, and are wondering if it is not possible to have them transferred to our station. The food is good here. The climate is incomparable, and we have a wonderful movie. So this is the way in which they were making light of an incredibly difficult and very, very painful situation they were all living in. And that was the fourth edition of it. It kept going for them. It started in early 42 and ended in 45. This is a great story. This is a woman who was not sure whether her son was still alive was in the audience. Do you remember back in the day they had newsreels along with movies? And often during World War II, they showed battle scenes and stuff from the France. Well, she was sitting in the audience totally fretting that moment about her son and who shows up in one of the newsreels. They had a newsreel without email. And in the descriptor of all this, she has tremendous relief. She goes up to the projectionist, asks, could you show that again? She wanted to really make sure it was him, but that was her son. Next one. Something's quite a turn. This really seeped into the culture. So it was a female basketball team and it was quite competitive and played around the country. Next one. Okay, so here's the disclaimer. And Bill made a big point of saying to me, I want you to tell people it wasn't perfect. And I got to hear what he meant by not perfect and this expresses it. You're familiar with Sam Sapp, the cartoon character? You probably have to be at least 60 and several of you, a couple of you aren't. But this is what was the downside. I don't exactly know why this happened, but the paper they reproduced the letters on was pretty small. And in a couple of minutes, I'm gonna show you some of the email letters. So, when Sam Sapp received his letter from his family, he was desperate to read it and someone said to him, hey, it's way easier if you have a magnifying glass. Thank you. Oh dear, just the back covers it.  So people made fun of this. It was humorous and you had to be aware of what was necessary. Next one. So here's, oh, okay, we gotta move along. So this is, these are examples of the letters. He got the book of letters, he paid for these for every year, 42, three, four, and five. And I went through them all. There were about 5,000 letters. And these are the ones, this is one to someone's wife. They just got married right before he left. He was missing her desperately. He put down all these things about what size clothing she needed to wear. He was so mindful of her as a person, as a physical entity, green eyes, red hair, vet freckles, next one. This is the advertisement. Kodak created, US government adopts the email. And they were trying to get people to use it. Dear mother and dad, it's a whole thing about your letter will get to me better if you use the email. Next one. They did finally let there be pictures. There were all kinds of rules about it.  And they found out a way to do it so that it wouldn't mess up the machines. And they were able to send photos. It was a big deal when they first created it. Next one. Self-explanatory, it's saying send the email. You show your faith in our troops. Next one. There's the classic. This is one of the first ones that went. A baby he had not seen. This is another one, you're included in my post war plans. To your girlfriend. Next one. This is the racism. Showing the depictions of the enemy. Because in every war, the enemy gets to human lives. And thankfully, we've done a lot of recovery from that. Yeah. Someone write into their mom. And they had to be really mindful about the 12, 13 days. There was a huge, of course, load of mail coming before holidays, Thanksgiving, but especially Christmas. And this was a Mother's Day one that I hope got there in time. That someone who was really artistic. Yep. Next. These are more examples of them. I can't go through them now. There's a beautiful, beautiful writing in a lot of these letters. Very good. Me. This is someone who's saying, how many letters are you going to send to me? So they were going to ask them to mark the days they would write letters. Because it was lifeblood. It was a moralistic lifeblood. And they made a kit. Schaefer made a kit. Remember Schaefer pens? They made a whole kit of how you could give your soldier that and guarantee they'll write more letters to you. And that's the pack of lead envelopes. This is another place that was saying, the next best thing to a leave is a letter. And that was to send more email. These advertisements are really great if you read them. They're just evocative and moving, trying to get people to show their love. That's another one. Keep your email flying and just getting rid of the word letters. Next one. And this one describes, and if I have more time, I'll show you the length of times when you're comparing to a ship. This one right here, 300 miles per hour, 10 miles per hour, which one would you want your letter on? Okay, next. Then someone begging their parents to send them an email letter instead of a regular letter. Okay. Now it's going to be the original cover of the book. Two dads talking about getting an email from their sons. No. The American way works. More letters. Yeah. Is that the last one? Okay. So I'm going to pass these around so you can see them. If you make sure they get back in the envelope, those two, and these two are not in envelopes, you get a field for it. Wow. And I'll stop there. Questions, comments. I'd love to hear from people. Yes. They started these archives when they were. He's in the microphone. Great question. That's what Steve Strymer and I are supposed to do next. Oh. They may exist somewhere, right? Yes. I don't even know the original place because Bill got them. I haven't gone back to the eBay source. I don't know where they all are. He had copies of them. So the government doesn't have them? I never found out. I tried to reach, I reached out to the US Postal Service and asked them if I could come down and give a presentation of the museum they have. And they said, we're back locked for two years of presentations. And that would have been a chance. And I still might be able to see if I can find that more. National Archives? Maybe Smithsonian, there's possibilities. Smithsonian produced all of the footage that actually, those pictures of the work of the process. I was just wondering, what was the route that they took to get them to and from the Pacific? I mean, I'm saying if they... You mean the airline plane? No. You talked about the microphones going to and from England to get to the front of Europe, I presume. How did they get to the Pacific? Just... Both airlines. Just straight out to Hawaii? Yeah. Remember the guy that poised out? Was it Leslie, something that was in Gone with the Wind? Yeah. He was a one... Leslie Howard. Leslie Howard. He became a spy for England during World War II. And his plane was shot down and they lost... That was the one aircraft plane where they lost everything from that. He was on that plane. But it was just regular routes that they would hopefully not pass through the zones where the enemy was waiting to shoot them down. And in fact, they had a training, a facility on Guadalcanal, what was the post-liberation of Guadalcanal, obviously. Yeah. Anything else? Go ahead. So if you were the family one, you'd just send this kind of letter. You'd go to the post office by these forms. Exactly. Do you know the toss money? Yeah, three cents, I think, to send the letter. I can't remember. Maybe you could buy a bunch and read cheaper. But it's all in the book and I don't have their own memoirs. But it was very inexpensive even for them. And then it would be sent to one of the three cities you said... Turned into a piece of microfilm and shipped across the country. What did they do with the original? They saved them all. And that's why I don't know what your question was. Where are these letters? Where are the microfilm copies at? I'm pretty sure they did eventually destroy them because you can imagine where you can keep the two billion letters. Yeah. And was there a financial gain for anybody? No, no one profited from this. It was all the government wanted this to be available. Kodak didn't profit, I think, and they may have taken losses because they had to provide it. The government must have had contracts with them to buy them. So I'm sure Kodak was not losing money big time when their businesses don't read that. Anything else? Now, there's a whole chapter and if I had more time, I excerpted sections from a lot of the letters and it's organized by thematically. It's the last chapter in the book that's called The Voices of Email. There's some incredibly moving ones.  Can you keep trying to find out something? Give us some satisfaction. And I go back and forth because MacArthur writes her back and I have all those letters. And that's in here with David. And then I did them by year and subject matter. So it might be a family member talking about his father's condition on a home front. If you worry about how you don't need to be, looks fine and don't do a top of work. Only fishes and carries home groceries. He takes beautiful long trips through the country, had a good time, free and is well-tanned. Our bathroom is now a keeper of bait line things and awful to look at. This is about his son had written, is dad gonna be okay? He heard like the cow kicked him. And she's saying, not only don't you have to worry but he's sort of reloading off the family now. Another one was Christmas missing his wife, sympathy for his fellows up at the front. I'm wishing I were with you. We have now an enlisted men's club in our own building. We have liquor from Italy, which definitely I do not care for. We ought to have some USO entertainers coming to our club to cheer us up. So I just took little sections that I thought were really evocative and indicative of what people's experience was on both the home front and in the battle front. Yeah. Am I getting close to you? That's great. I'm curious about how much censorship going over on the home front, how much censorship was involved in that email mechanism? They had sensors at both ends. So that's a good question. But there were more sensors at the other end because they had the knowledge and they weren't the ones who were at risk of giving stuff away. But there could be things that the people on the home front were either asking or potentially revealing from other means of communication they might have had. And these are the time when people, there was no phones. In fact, if I had more time than the conclusion, I write about the movie Three Kings. Do you like to see it? It's about the Iraq war. And there's a scene where one of the main characters is captured and he's put in a room with like 600 cell phones. And he calls his wife. This is a true story, based on a true story. He calls his wife up on the cell phone and tells her, I'm in danger. I'm in a prison. She completely is freaking out. So you have instantaneous communication there, which can be obviously wasn't really scary. Here it was at least 12 to 15 days people did these letters. They also sent records, recordings. They've been 78 records, which my son went on to collect the 15 years old. Not those ones, but generally 78s. And that was the only, that was it. So they didn't get to have phone conversations where the guy could have said, oh yeah, we're deep in this spot and we're adding more troops. You know, that didn't happen. But there were things they were worried about. My father was in the station, he stayed sight of this point, but yeah, he went to a booth where he recorded a little 78 disc. That happened exactly. He sent it over to his wife. People did that in Vietnam too. This is scenes from the Ken Burns video that showed him recording one of those. Okay. This is wonderful. What a great job of recovering history with him. And it's just.


Yeah, coming in last year without OTAs, mini-camp and really a full off-season, it was kind of tough, just adjusting. Definitely coming in this year knowing more what to expect and getting a normal season of off-season preparation. It's been very helpful to, you know, pick up the speed and, you know, just get on the same page as everybody on the team. I mean, that confidence always there. You got to play with confidence. You don't play with confidence, then you're losing already. Really just condition, you know what I'm saying? Finish two stripes. So when it's game time and those pads are on, you got to do it in the game. You prep yourself to do it already so you don't have to think about it in the game.  So, you know, it's a blessing to be out here. It's an opportunity to be out here. You know, it's not promised, so every chance I get to come out here I'm thankful for it. I'm not really too sure. That's a question for Vrable and Todd. Y'all have to ask them. It's been good to get a lot of different looks, a lot more looks than I had last year. Especially even if you count LTAs, just, you know what I'm saying? Seeing different fronts, different pressures and, you know, just being more familiar with the defense and how they run plays as well as the details on our offense. I mean, I'm not really too sure. I just do whatever they call it. Comfortable? Yeah, I'm comfortable being out here. Anything. I feel about the same running-wise. You know, same speed, weight-wise I feel good where I'm at. So, you know, as long as I can run fast I'm good with that and then, you know, pick up blocks. Hopefully so. You know, gotta go out and compete. You know, it's a job that's not guaranteed. Go out and compete. And, you know, I'm excited for it. You know, that's one area I do like to take a lot of pride in, a special team. So, I'll definitely try and, you know what I'm saying? Do my best to get that. Not at all. Everything, I did the same stuff I did last year. You know, I understand last year I ended up getting hurt, but it happens. Everybody goes through stuff. It ain't really too much. I could have done on my end whether I've done something different. That's out of my control. So, I just control what I control. Come out here and do my job. Yeah, it's definitely tough.  You know, but at the same time, as long as the team's winning and I'm here helping them meet and doing different things, learning from the guys, sharpening each other. You know what I'm saying? My job is, you know what I'm saying? I'm happy with it. I feel like I've done a decent job. You know, you always do better. It's just tuning in on the details and just trying to, you know what I'm saying? Make the mistakes. Don't do them. Don't mess up over and over again. And, you know, just learn more.


I'm Rusty Kamori and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahou Boys Varsity Tennis Team for 22 years and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my books Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game and many people find it inspiring and motivating and helps you keep the right mindset in dealing with life's challenges. My special guest today has over 150 TV and film credits to her name and she is currently on the hit TV show Magnum PI. She is Amy Hill and today we are going beyond acting. Hi Amy, welcome to the show. Hi, welcome. I know. Thank you. Welcome me to the show. I want to say welcome to the show. Wait a minute, it's not my show. It can be your show, Amy. Now, Amy, I know that you were born in South Dakota. Tell me about your background growing up. Well, I was born in Deadwood, South Dakota, which until that show was on HBO, nobody believed existed. And there were really very few people in town. There was one hospital, one stoplight, and I was on a farm that wasn't a working farm even. My dad worked in a gold mine in Leed, South Dakota. And it was a Finnish farming community. So there were some farms somewhere. And yeah, it was quite lonely. I didn't have anybody to play with. My brother was older than me and he wanted to do nothing with me. And so I had animals and horses and open plane. It was beautiful, but so all I had was my imagination. And that's something I used a lot. I watched TV, did a lot of playing in my imagination, creating characters, storylines. I imagined I was other people and my mother was concerned for my mental health. And then we moved to Seattle when I was six. And that's where I was raised in Seattle. And it was good because there were other people around.  It was another thing to deal with growing up in Seattle. Well, Amy, your mom is Japanese and your dad is Finnish. Correct. What's the most important thing you learned from your parents? Well, I think, you know, my dad was, he had a really good, they both had really good work ethics, which is something that I think I learned early was that the heart of your, you know, if you work hard, you're rewarded. So my dad worked very hard. He was a good person, really a good person. So honest and just a delightful man. But, you know, he was sort of hindered, I think, in some ways by the way he grew up in, in Deadwood. So he didn't have big ambitions. He just had ambitions to make a living. Where my mother, in some fashion, because she was Japanese, she always expected us to do better than she ever did, do better than my dad and her had done in life. So, you know, there was always this specter of failure with her. So I worked really hard, I think, to do well, because I didn't want to fail my mother. Where my father, if I just, you know, survived, it would be okay. But with my mother, who's Japanese, it was like, no, no. So whatever accomplishments I made growing up, she would always be like, well, that's fine.  So when I first got a television show, she said, when are you going to Broadway?  Now, Amy, how did you get interested in acting? How did it all start? Well, it started in Deadwood. I mean, I didn't know I was acting. I just was creating characters and, you know, writing scripts in my head. So that's where it started, I think. And that was always the safe place to go. Even in Seattle, because I didn't, you know, I wasn't really fully accepted by the community of kids because I was. Papa. That wasn't even a word when I was six. But, you know, I wasn't like the other kids.  I created characters I performed for the Italians across the street. And they literally sat in their picture window watching me on the front porch performing. Like I was a television show that was. There for their entertainment. And I thought of them as my audience as well. So it was really, you know, something that just came naturally to me, but I never felt safe telling anybody that I wanted to be. An actor, because I never saw. Well, rarely saw anybody that looked like me on television. Until Nancy. Then everything changed. But by high school, I felt safe enough to be able to. Take some drama classes, get into theater and, you know, within a very short period of time, I was in every play. On stage and then I started doing community theater in Seattle and it was just, you couldn't stop me. And then I moved to after graduating from high school, I moved to Tokyo to go to university. And in Tokyo, I started doing, you know, radio and television and other things. It was great. Well, I like hearing all of that. And, and Amy, how, so how did your role come about on Magnum PI? Well, it's interesting because my daughter and I would visit Hawaii at least twice a year. It was our, one of our favorite places to come visit because we have a lot of friends here and it just felt comfortable.  It's just lovely. So my daughter, her first choice university was University of Hawaii and she got in. And after she got in, we were making our plans to, you know, settle her in fly here, get her into the dorms. And about two weeks before that, I got a call from my agent saying that Peter Lenkoff wanted to have a meeting with me. And I said, Oh, I didn't even know Magnum PI was going to be shooting. I didn't know anything about Magnum PI. I never even saw the first one. Anyway, so I had a meeting with him and he said, yeah, we're doing this show Magnum PI, the reboot. And we're going to have this character who is the cultural curator of the show and blah, blah, blah. Anyway, talk for like 20 minutes. And then he said, are you interested in doing it? And I said, when do you need me? And he says next week. So it was very short notice. And I said, yes. It was easy. That was, that's perfect. I'm glad it worked out like that. And Amy, you know, I was fortunate to go to many, many sunset on the beach premieres.  It's a phenomenon that's specific to Hawaii. And to Hawaii 50 and Magnum PI. It's something that I've never experienced. I've been on other series. I've been to other premiers. There's nothing like this because they have events beforehand where. Fans from around the world will come and you have like, there was a pancake breakfast that you had at wine. My Lana cafe. With some of your fans. And then people are on the beach from all over the world. Screaming and yelling. It's just, it's like the Oscars or so. It's bizarre and wonderful at the same time. So it's good. You get to meet your fans. And the first sunset, nobody knew us because no, we hadn't even premiered the show yet. So they're like, Oh, hi. Who are you? But the second year was really fun because they had seen the show and they knew all of our characters. Now, Amy, how are you guys adapting to the COVID-19 situation on set now? Well, the reason we started in September is that's when I think everybody had figured out what the set protocols would be to make it, make sure that it was safe. Because I think, you know, actors were just as concerned as anybody else that they'd be in a safe environment.  So we were sure that everything had been set. We were sure that it was safe. We were sure that it was safe. We were sure that it was safe in terms of safety and. And it's great. It feels like we're in a, we're in the safest place on the island being on that set. We get tested constantly. We have somebody's. We have those. The hand sanitizer is everywhere. We have masks. You know, we have so much and shield space shields. We are so safe. Except for the actors, you know, we have to be close, but as soon as they yell cut masks, go back on everybody, you know, make sure that we're sanitized and it's fantastic. Oh, that's great to hear.  Why is that? You know, I think that's one of the things that Peter Lenkoff did. Particularly well for our show, at least is cast people that were. Grounded in a sense of reality of their own lives. They're not there. Nobody is there to be a celebrity. They're all there to do a job. Jay, of course, being the star of the show, he's the one who really sets, I think, the tone. And he is so wonderful to work with. He works the hardest because he's in everything.  He naps a lot, you know, between takes and setups, but he's always got a good sense of humor. He's always quick to take care of other people. He's really lovely to work with. And Purdy, Pernitta is all equally because she's British. British people are so easy to work with. They have no ego. They're just so self-effacing and wonderful. And she's also super smart. Both of them are super smart. They work really hard, great sense of humor, lovely people and caring. They care about everyone. Equally, you know, crew, cast, everybody. They love and care. And they are concerned with making it a family. And the rest of the cast is the same. They're all just great people. And we enjoy each other's company. We hang out outside of the set, not right now as much. But, you know, I don't know what to do. Maybe they do, but I'm not doing anything. I still, I still just go home. So, yeah, we're really lucky. No, I like, I like that. And Amy, you know, in terms of your character roles, how much input are you able to give to the writers and producers about how you want your character to be portrayed? Well, sort of, well, it happens sometimes you have a lot of input and sometimes you don't know what they want from you. They don't know why they asked you to be in this thing. Well, they say, we want you.  So in this case, he said, we want you to play this character. So I started creating something. And then when I got to the set, I remember that he changed my name from some Japanese name to a Samoan name. And I was like, well, that's, you know, that's a different person. So sometimes I feel like writers or creators aren't aware of the process of creating a character as an actor. So I had to make a quick adjustment in terms of who I am. And now I'm sort of in that space where it's a collaboration, I guess, when I get a script, it informs me of who my character is more than normal. This is giving me more information.  So I think, oh, I guess I've been in jail a lot. So you find out things and it's kind of fun as an actor to sort of build this person as you go along. I mean, there's a center core of who I am. And in some shows, like when I did Unreal in Vancouver, this character had the same, nobody told me anything. So I had to sort of create my own reality. And then it manifested itself in the script as I went along and I went out. I'm so good. I mean, I watched your featured episode last season where you got kidnapped. You get kidnapped a lot. I do. That was a really cool intense episode and how Kumu was showing empathy for kind of understanding why the kidnapper was kidnapping you. How was it filming that episode? It was good. It was kind of funny. It's kind of funny to me too, because I've never really done a picture car before.  So that was one of the hardest things is like acting and driving at the same time.  And the director kept saying, you know, you're moving the wheel in the awful lot. Just keep your hands on the wheel. Don't move. And I was like, oh, because I'm like, ah, ah. And I was like, that the car would have been like act, would have gone off the road because I was driving so maniacally. And so those are things that are fun, fun as you go. But acting, it's the business and the acting sometimes it's the hard to coordinate. Amy, I also remember watching you on a Seinfeld episode when you played Frank Costanza's a long, love interest, and it was so cool to see you on that. It was great, oh my God. That was a dream, working with Jerry Stiller, and you know what? I think meeting him and working with him was better than anybody else on the show.    And he was so sweet, and he loved rehearsing. He wanted to rehearse all day, because he's older. So he'd say, you wanna do another rehearsal? You wanna rehearse? You wanna rehearse? I'd be like, yes. Because in between rehearsing, he'd tell stories, you know, about the old days. So great. Now, Amy, you know, in my books, Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, I talk a lot about achieving and sustaining success, and you're someone that definitely goes beyond the lines. I mean, your career is amazing, and people tend to define success in different ways. How do you define success? You know, early on in San Francisco, I remember writing a list of goals, and my goals were not around, you know, like financial success or celebrity. It was really around having the respect of my peers as an actor, and I feel like I've attained that. And also, you know, being able to work, and I've attained that. And having an agent, I remember writing that, having an agent who understood who I was, and I had a good relationship with. And you know, it isn't about how much work they get from me or anything, it's just having somebody that I can have a conversation with who knows who I am as an actor and artist, and I have that. So, it's really, for me, success is being able to do the work, having, and if I don't, if somebody doesn't hire me, I've learned now that I can also create my own work by doing the solo shows. So you're not, you're not limited by anything. If you're a creative person, you can do it, and sometimes people want you to do it for them. And it's great. So, I've had a very successful career, and I think though, now that I have a child who is now in college, really the most success I've achieved is, I think, raising a daughter who I am proud of. That's fantastic.  When you reflect back on your career, why are you successful? Well, my success is probably based in, what I learned, well, from my family, my mother, who was always reinventing herself. I mean, she married the GI, the enemy, and moved to Deadwood, South Dakota with him, and had to sort of reinvent herself many times along the way and faced a lot of challenges in her own country in Japan, and then, you know, in her time here in the United States. But when I lived in San Francisco, I studied improv and basically the improv teacher I had had, it's like an approach to life, saying yes to life. If you don't say yes, you'll never see what's on the other side of that door.  If you say no, that's the end of your future. And you have to learn to look forward to that and not fear it, which is another lesson I learned moving forward because you don't know as an actor ever, if you're never gonna, you may never work again ever. Every job ends and you think, okay, that's it. So you have to look forward to what the possibilities are.  I never knew their voice jobs even existed. I didn't know half of the things that I've done would ever come my way, but I've always said yes. And so that's really important. And always the other thing in improv is to be the best person you can be.   You know what I mean? So that's another thing and listening, listening. If you listen, you don't have to act so hard that people, you're informed by what people tell you. So listening is also really important. So these are the things that are keys.  Have you heard the word no? Yes, many, many times. But so I try to approach each audition as a performance in itself. So I go in and I perform and whether they say yes or no, it doesn't matter because I've, you know, I've satisfied my own needs. Yeah, I think that's a good perspective to have because it's all about mindset. I'm always, you know, coaching my players about having the right mindset and looking forward to challenges.  Well, I think in many ways growing up, it's always been not fitting into somebody's idea who I should be. So, you know, growing up in Seattle, I was multiracial and, you know, I don't know how people perceive me but it wasn't always kind. And then when I moved to San Francisco, there was also, you know, some perceptions of why, you know, I always felt like there was a part of me that people couldn't accept. So, you know, you sort of think, well, there aren't real high expectations of me, so what the hell, I'll just do whatever I'm doing. You know, I'm not in jail. Like my mother would say sometimes, oh, I don't know. And I'd say, mom, why are you complaining? I'm not in jail. Because I think in some ways, you know, the expectations of people who are multiracial weren't so good. And then when I moved to Los Angeles, I go to auditions and, you know, directors and say, you don't look Japanese.  But I never perceived myself as somebody who wouldn't work. I knew that I would always have theater. I would always, you know, I just always just kept going. There you go. Yeah. It's the old adage. You know, many times, what do they say? The beginning is who's Amy Hill? Get me Amy Hill. And then I guess who's Amy Hill. Which I don't care. Amy, was there a turning point in your career that really vaulted you to the, that higher level of acting and success? Well, actually, you know, doing the solo show was the big turning point. I think personally, it was a huge turning point because I had taken the power to create in my own hands. And it turned into a huge success and everybody came to see the show. They were all like all the networks.   So, and it wasn't intended that way. I just wanted to tell my story. I had a passion for this story and I just wanted to get it out. And it became a huge success and it led to a lot of opportunities. And the first series that I did, All American Girl came sort of out of that experience. And then it was, you know, just one job after another. It was great. Now, Amy, if you could choose a co-star to work with in the future, someone that you haven't worked with yet, who would that actor be? I'd like to work with Meryl Streep. I'd like to be, yeah. I'd like to hang out with her because I think I've met her. I did a show at Lincoln Center and she came to see it with her daughter. And I think she just seems like a cool person and she'd be somebody who would be fun to play with. Wow, that's well. She's definitely legendary. We need her to watch this show so that we can make that happen. Exactly. And Amy, I want to ask you one more question before we move on. What gives you fulfillment? My fulfillment comes with, I think making someone feel better about themselves in some fashion. So whether it's shows that I've done, performances I've done, things that have been out there. My solo show, when I toured the country and Canada, it really affected people. It made them think about their own lives. It made them feel better about who they were or curious about who they were. So those are the things. I mean, I think there's a part of me that is an activist of sorts. I want to make a difference in the world. Performing is something I love to do and writing is something I love to do. So if I can do it and make somebody shift to the way they think, that's huge. Well, Amy, you definitely go beyond the lines and I want to thank you for taking time in your schedule to join me on the show today. Thank you. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. For more information, please visit RustyKamori.com and my books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I hope that Amy and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence. And to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha.


Charlie Evans i그�ρα, tansakitas iepu. Ngai h soundis pasua tatawi? Aizama mahalit watia pili pa mera eau? Ait pili iepu aerial wisi. Tata mera wisi iepu kaere iepu kaere. Tata wisi iepu kaere iepu kaere. Kau syunai. Mera ipretai oledi. Wisa nowi tataw mahalit. Tu maio te iepu bhungi iipu. Wisi iepu kaere iepu kaere. Aizama mahalit a metri? Aizama mahalit. It's quite a challenge, it's eight days of rallying, and I don't know, just the people you meet, I mean half the people are from overseas, it's fantastic, and I recommend it to anyone that wants to have a go at it.


Family Theatre presents Gene Crane and Gene Lockhart. The mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Gene Lockhart in The Woman's Touch. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Gene Crane. Thank you, Tony LaFranco. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family Theatre urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. This is supposed to be a man's world. But heaven helped the middle-aged widower with two married daughters and an interested neighbor lady. Though said widower has long since reached the age of consent and dissent, his feminine relations and friends flutter about him like anxious hens round a single chick. Such a man is Homer Paul. And such a man has decided to do something about it. Family Theatre presents Gene Lockhart in The Woman's Touch. I'm free. I can keep my house. I can cook my dinners. I've made my bed, and now dog got it, let me lie in it. Well, if that's the way you feel about it, Dad. Thank you. Of course I'm home. Huh? Wouldn't leave my doors unlocked if I weren't home would I? Well, I saw Annie leave by the front door, Po, so I came in the back. Thought you must be home or so are so flushed. You have a fight with her, Po? Ah, look at this house. Oh, looks nice and neat to me. Yeah, that's just the trouble. I no sooner get things fixed the way I like them, than one of my daughters has to come in and change everything around. Why can't they leave me alone? Oh, it's just that they want to take good care of you, Po. Uh, oh my, look at that nice blue vase up there by the clock. But it's lost there. I'll just take it and put it on the book. No, leave that vase alone. Po, you're almost... I almost made you drop it. You women.  Why can't you let my blue vase be? Why can't you let me be? You who, Dad. Ah, there's any. Why did I have to have girls? Why didn't I have sons? Sons that went out and worked all day and let their poor dad alone. Oh, what are you grumbling about now, Dad? Hello there, Mrs. Sowers. Oh, no, wait a minute. I thought I'd stop by with a nice plate of salad for you, Dad. Here you are. Yeah. Salad. Vitamins. Anna's been here, I see. Always put your vase in the bookcase. It's wasted there. I'll put it on the what-not shelf. Now, you see, Mrs. Sowers, you see... Oh, now, Po, don't go getting yourself all excited. Remember your blood pressure. Yeah, blood pressure. Well, none of us are getting any younger. Are you calling me old? Well, no. What in the world does it matter with you today, Father? Nothing. Nothing's the matter with me. I just want to be left alone. That's all. Well, really? And that goes for you, too, Kitty. I'm as young as I ever was. Do you hear? And as good as I ever was. My only trouble is I've got too many women. Too many women trying to take care of me. I can see I'm in the way. But don't bother to wash the salad plate, Father. I'll pick it up tomorrow morning. Wash the plate. I'll... Goodbye. Goodbye. Oh, now it's a real nice salad, Po. Molded gelatin. Molded indigestion. Well, even the cat won't touch it, if it... Ah, yeah, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty. Po, what are you going to do to that animal? I'm just going to feed it to my salad. Here, Kitty. Eat hearty. It's having a fit. That doesn't... I'm going to get away from all this. I'm going to take a trip. A trip alone? Yes, you bet it's alone. I'm going to shoot the words. I'll show them that Po's an old man. I'm going to... I'm going to Chicago. Chicago? A woman! Are these the shiniest patent leather shoes you have in the store? Well, yes, Mr. Po. Are they for yourself? You fit them to my feet, didn't you? Oh, yes. Then wrap them up. This is the usual style hat you buy, Mr. Po. Yes, but I'm changing my style, Mr. Carberry. Now, give me something sportier. Sportier? You? Have you got any objections? Oh, no, no, Mr. Po. But what did you have in mind? There. That derby there. I'll take that. The derby? Yes, the derby. Hi, it's Mr. Po in person. Hello, Bill. Well, I want to turn my car in. I think I've gotten my wear out of it, don't you? I'd say so, yes. Let's see, that's a 37, isn't it? Ah, 38. Mm-hmm. Of course I can't give you much on it, Mr. Po, but on the other hand, your new car won't be out of line price-wise either. You want the most conservative model, of course. How much is that red convertible in the display window? The red convertible? It's for sale, isn't it? Oh, of course, but... That's the one I want.  Now, just let those dishes drip, and I'll take a look over at Po's to see if he's all right. Let's call the girls to get over here. Hurry. Operator, get me Elm 6-8-5-1 and hurry. Oh, dear, the chiefs get nervous. The fire must... This is Mrs. Sowers. Oh, yes, I'm fine. Thanks. It's your father. Your father, his house... I wanted to show you something. A few things I wanted to tell you before I leave, too, like feeding the cat while I'm gone. Leave? But your house? What about my house? It's on fire. The fire chief's car's in your driveway. The fire chief? Oh... Po, are you going out of your head? No, Flossie. For the first time in a long time, I've come to my senses. Why, that red convertible out there, that's mine. Sure. That's right. And look. Take a look at my duds, huh? Derby hat? Look down here. Patten leather shoes. Oh, Po, I just can't believe it's you. Well, it's me, all right. And I'm off for Chicago. All packed. Leaving right now. Now, you just take care of the cat, like I said. Oh, yes. Tell Edna and Annie where I am. Edna and Annie... Good heavens. Now what? I phoned them. Your house was on fire. They'll be here any minute. Holy cats, I'm getting out of here. Oh, no, wait, Po, wait. Wait for what? My daughters and the fire department? I'm leaving while I can. Oh, well, as long as you're so set on going to Chicago, here's an address I wrote down for you in case you get lonesome. Miss Hannah Strong, another woman. She's real nice, Po. That's why I'm going to Chicago, to get away from women. You tell that to Annie and Edna.  That's your problem, Flossie. You started that fire in my house. Now let's see how you can put it out. Of the Middle West. Metropolis of unfriendly guy. Traffic's thick, though. Ah, I have it. I'll go for a walk along the shores of famous Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan. Ah, it's beautiful. Father of waters. Or was it the mother? Ah, inhale this fresh air right off the lake. I can't you get the dampest. I'm all right, officer. I'm just out for a little air. Air, is it?  What for? Now you wouldn't want me to worry about you, would you? We want to take care of our tour, so go along to your hotel now, Pop. Or you'll be warm and safe. Pop. Taxes. Fazed again. I never thought Chicago would be like this. It seems the bigger a city is, the lonesomer you can get. Me, lonesome? Why, that's the reason I left Logan's Port, to get away from people, especially women. I've only been in Chicago three days, and I'm lonesome. See, what was that address Flossie gave me? That Miss Hannah's strong. She's probably an old bat-lax, but tonight, well, any old port in the storm. Yes? Is Miss Hannah strong in? I am Miss strong. You? Is it that bad? Oh, no, ma'am. I mean, Mrs. Sowers gave me your address.  I'm Homer Poe. Thank you, kindly. Give me your hat and overcoat, and go ride in and sit down while I hang them up. Thank you. Flossie wrote me all about you, Mr. Poe. I've been looking forward to meeting you. Flossie wasn't at all sure that you would call on me, but she hoped you would. And so did I. Wow. Well, that's mighty nice of you, Miss Strong. I wish I'd called sooner. When did you arrive in Chicago? Three days ago. Oh, well, I think you did pretty well in calling me as soon as you did, Mr. Poe. Miss Strong, you'd be surprised how roomsome a man can get in three days in Chicago. Did Flossie tell you why I left Logan's Port? Well, not exactly. No, I'll bet she didn't. Anyhow, I'm sorry I didn't phone you before barging in like this. Nonsense. It was a most delightful surprise. You didn't have another date? No. To tell the truth, Mr. Poe, I'm not too interested in you men. You're not? No. Does that surprise you? Well, I thought all women were interested in men in one way or another, either to be taken care of or to take care of them. No, I've managed to get along without them pretty well. Oh, of course I have my friends. But I don't take the masculine sex too seriously. Makes life much simpler. Well, you are different. And you like it? You bet I do. Miss Strong? Hannah? If there's one thing I like better than anything else, it's independence. And it's wonderful to find it in a woman. Well... You know, we're a lot alike, you and me. Are we? Absolutely. And I think we ought to do something about it. Celebrate, huh? What do you say? You show me the town tonight. Why, Mr. Poe, I'd love it. No, that's what I like. No shelly-shallying.  Hey, till you taught me how. And from now on... Well, from now on, it's... it's me bar everything. That was a wonderful dinner, Hannah. I'm glad you liked it. Shall we have our coffee in the front room? Fine, fine. Here, let me carry the tray for you. Oh, thank you. You know, you certainly make a fella feel right at home. I'll move the ash trays out of the way. I'll help. There we are. Didn't drop a thing either. Why should you? Well, if I'd been home back in Logan's port, there it is. And if I'd offered to carry anything like that tray, my girls would have bet that I would have dumped a whole thing on the carpet. Oh, I can't imagine you doing anything like that. You're so sure of yourself. Homer? You've made me that way, Hannah. Here's your coffee, Homer. Thanks. Yep. Yep, you. You do everything the easy way. And still, you accomplish a lot. And you take it for granted that I can do things the same way. Well, can't you? Sure I can, if I'm let alone. Sugar and cream, sugar and cream. I just can't thank you enough for making my month in Chicago so fine. I've enjoyed it, too. I miss you, Homer. But you've got other friends. I didn't give you much chance to see them lately. Oh, they won't mind. They're very understanding. Yes. Anybody could tell you're a happy woman. What a dear thing to say. Well, it's the truth. Why, it shows. It shows in your eyes and your, your ways, everything about you. Or even in this flat. This is a happy place. It's been my home for a good many years now. Dear, do you think you could be happy anywhere else? Anywhere else? Well, I don't know. I hadn't thought about it. I've always lived in Chicago ever since leaving Kentucky. I like it. Why should I leave? I've got a, I've got a bone business back in Logan Sports, Hannah. I have to live there. Homer. Hannah, will you marry me? Huh? Will you marry me? I guess I'm not much to look at. I'm no spring chicken, but... Well, Hannah, honey, well, you're crying. Yes. Did I, did I say the wrong thing? Oh, no. I was so afraid you wouldn't say the right thing before you left. I'm trying to operate it. I want to talk to Mrs. Fawcy Sowers in Logan Sports. The number's out in 627. Well, of all things, congratulations. Take it to them gently. Well, this looks like a party. What's it all about, Fawcy?  Well, I didn't mean to be Annie. I just thought it'd be nice for us to have a little... get together at your dad's house. Dad, it's about Dad. You've heard from him. Well, yes, I have, Edna. You've heard from Dad. Now, Annie, don't get excited. There's been an accident. Oh, I knew it. We never should have let him go off to Chicago alone. We should have followed him and brought him back. No, no, no, no, you're wrong. He's not dead. Oh, Fawcy, don't tell us that. Girls, will you let me get a word in Edgeway? Tell us. Tell us the worst. Poe is... Can you know that all the time? Poe went to Chicago once. In Chicago? Logan Sport isn't the only place that's got nice people. Lonesome. He had us. We took good years. Now, Edna, you're 26, and Annie, you're... It isn't decent of him to marry again. He's forgotten Mother. Oh, nonsense. When a widower marries again, it shows his first marriage must have been a mighty happy one. Nobody'll ever take your mother's place with him. Not even Hannah. Sweet as she is. Hannah. You're stepmother. She's a fine, sensible girl. Girl? How old is she? Oh, I'd say Hannah was 40. And old maid. Maiden lady. And a mighty pretty one. She's had her share of bows, the pick of the men. But she had to wait till Dad came along. I still think you were behind this whole thing, Flossie. This woman is your friend.   It was entirely your Dad's idea. That horrible red car. I didn't know he was getting that car. And I tried to talk him out of going away alone. But that's the way he wanted it. And he's old enough to know his own mind. Not when it comes to women. Especially when it comes to women. I'll admit I gave him Hannah's address in case he needed a friend. A friend. A fine friend. You'd better make the best of things because they're arriving home today, my girls. Your Dad and Hannah any minute. That's why I invited you over. Well... Oh, my hair looking this way. I'd have worn my son's address. Oh, not that she'd make any difference. I'd do it for poor Dad's sake, marrying a woman like that. He'll need all the family backing he can get. I'll help you, pardon me. I'm not, but no one answered. And Poe said to go right on in. Hannah! Oh, so dying. Dear, I can't tell you how happy I am for you, dear. And Poe's a lucky man to get you. Ah, thank you. Oh, no. Well, I know you'll want to meet Poe's girls. Indeed I do. Poe's done nothing but talk about Edna and Hannah. He loves you very much, you know. I'm Edna, Mrs. Hannah. Welcome home. Thank you, Edna. And I'm Anna. You're the one that threw the pace pot on the school door because you didn't like your arithmetic teacher. What? Congratulations. Hey, there you go. Well, girls, what do you think of her? Isn't she a sweetheart? She certainly is.  Yes, you girls always took fine care of your old dad. Now I want you to come over just as often as before. This is still your home, you know. Well, that's awfully nice of you, Hannah. Oh, now this is no way to celebrate a wedding. Folks, I've got a big party ready for you. Oh, that's good. Thanks, Fawzi. Thanks for breaking the news to the girls. You sure did a swell job. Oh, I didn't do anything, Poe, unless it was the opposite. Why, what do you mean? They were carrying on something terrible when Hannah walked in. She heard it, too. But did she get mad? No. In one minute's time, she'll wrap them right around her little finger. I tell you, Fawzi. And there's one in a million. And if it hadn't been for you, I never would have met her. Well, as long as I couldn't marry her myself, I couldn't think of anyone sweeter than Hannah. I hope you'll be very happy together, Poe. Oh, I know that. Now, let's get over to the girls. Oh, I think everything looks just lovely, girls. I know I'm going to be very happy here in a ready-made home. A real home built by love. Understand? Bless your heart, Hannah. They, um, there's just one thing, though. Oh, I know it's silly. But it makes me feel really at home. So I'd had a hand and kind of sort of range in things. What's that, Hannah? This blue vase. What? I'd like to put it right over here. Oh, no. The vase has been a boner contention for years. No woman could leave it alone, not even you. Don't you worry about that vase. I'm glad it's broken. Oh, it's so sweet of you to feel that way. But that settles it. What? What do you mean, Hannah? I'm not going to touch another thing. 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Good morning, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with Stocks. What should I'm here today reviewing FTNT? I did not do anything with this gap today. I took a look at it. And I'm very familiar with usually my opponent in reference to trading when I choose to look at gaps. And this pattern here is something that day traders usually look to buy. But it is not a long. It's not a long, even though the stock's rallying today would never buy this. And I also didn't short it. And it didn't set up right for me. But the bottom line is the stock traded down for like a week and then had a big gap down. And very often traders look to buy these types of gaps to fill the gap. That is not a strategy. There's nothing to fill. That makes absolutely no sense. But I do know what, again, the people on the opposite side of a trade would do. And I know that traders typically would look to buy something like this. This very well could have been a short today, but it didn't set up right. So what is my process in the morning? I get up in the morning and I rate the gap for my 26 point rating system that I also watch for the stock when it opens to set up. And this did not set up the way that I would have wanted it today to convince me to take the trade. I'm gonna go over here. So if you look here, actually at this right in here, this looks like it might hold, but I didn't like the open here. And then you see the flip. So this pop on through is people that shorted this here that had stopped over the high and day traders trying to buy it. They may have bought it here. They may have bought it here. But you see the stock really isn't going anywhere. After this one big pop up here, it's just flat line. This is not the way institutions or institutional money moves the stock. So in other words, what am I trying to say? I'm trying to say that my gap rating method depicts when an institution is gonna buy something or sell it. Institutions are not buying the stock today. I know it's rallied. I know it's green. I know if you bought it at the right place, maybe you could have made money going long it. But the bottom line is that I am looking for institutional money. That's what makes the big moves in stocks and what gives me conviction to take size in my trades. And it gives you mean the accuracy also in the numbers, not only for the entry and the stock, but the target as well. So this flip today, I didn't do this. I didn't do any trades today. One of the things that has experienced has given me is not only a good skill set where I can read something live, which I did today with this gap here and also many gaps, is that also I'm very patient. I'm patient when I don't see something patient, not just for the trade to set up a patient overall in the week or patient on the month, waiting for the good ones, which this was not today. This was not a good long. This was not a good short. This was not anything to trade whatsoever. It was a no play. So it very well could have worked though. It was a valid gap to rate. It just didn't do what I wanted it to do. And as I said before, I know that very often traders will look in this type of pattern to buy it. It is not a good quality buy. One of the reasons that I'm very good at calling good longs is because I know what a good buy looks like and I know what a good short looks like. And if you can't determine the difference, it will be hard for you to have conviction in either direction, going long or short. So I have a high degree of conviction and confidence in what I do based on my gap rating method system and also the skill set and experience I have to read live action, which I did here today. If you'd like more information, you can email me. The next golden gap class is October 22nd and 23rd. If you wanna trade out the rest of the year with me in the fall, it'd be a great class to take to do it. So you get the information, you get the 26 points in the class and you're in the entries and the exits and the targets and when to stay away like days like today. Have a great day everyone. Email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com for more information.


So we went through all the way up to Somewhere here it should say ah stop there So turn to what was called question number nine for some strange reason And I want to show that these two triangles are congruent How I have no idea I'm gonna let the givens guide me and I'm looking for side side side side angle side And angle side angle all that good stuff So it says well Adam what do you think I'm gonna write here? Adam I Think I'm gonna go x y equals.  I would go half mark half mark. Oh Did I just write something down Marcus? I better mark it on my diagram x y Boom boom is the same size as zed why What do I now know now? There's more givens, but also I've just realized the great big triangle Boston is isosceles I'll bet you I'm not looking, but I'll bet you my next line probably wants me to mention something about that Does it oh what ah? This angle is The same size as that angle Because if a triangle is isosceles Alex to side boy I'm watching that even worse of it make it look like it has two hash marks two sides the same means two angles the same two angles The same means two sides the same so I can call this angle Y X X mr. Do Y X W is angle Y ZW and Right now in terms of congruency rules Emily. I'm thinking either side angle side Maybe or angle side angle maybe people come in Well Jordan there's two more lines left and I know my last line by the way is going to be Triangle X W Y Equals congruent to triangle ZW Y. I know that's going to be the case I don't know what I'm gonna put here side angle side angle side angle or angle side or side side Any suggestions? Oh? Have I used all my givens yet?  That's gotta be this line here last given Because I haven't used all the information they gave me and in a court of law Why wouldn't I use the evidence that I had people's exhibit one people's exhibit two so angle X Y W is the same size as angle Z Y W angle X Y W that's this one here is the same size as Z Y W. That's that one there given and Hey, which congruency rule have I forced that into here angle side angle So give yourself four marks one mark for each line if there's two blanks online half mark for each blank Shania are proofs tough. Yes. Ah, but are they also tough to get a zero on? I'm hoping you can all get the givens if nothing else Right and the show So It's a you know Tough to get perfect tough to get blank. Ooh a five marker five lines Shay, what am I gonna write in line one? You don't say I mean don't say yeah AD equals BC Am I gonna move on to the next line? No, I'm gonna write this on my diagram because you try and keep track of all of these in Your head is ridiculously tough AD This is the same length as that and we show length with hash marks. How do we show parallel arrows?  Okay, so I'm gonna go AD is Also parallel to BC parallel is gonna be one arrow one arrow or two arrows two arrows or three arrows three arrows I've made that up whenever no. Oh, come on. I see dead people. I see that I see Except for Adam, I see a Z I'm willing to bet that my next line because I'm saying why would we have to enter this into evidence Adam? The only thing I can think is I've got a set. I'll bet you my next line is gonna be This angle here is the same size as this angle here Angle ADB is angle CBD and Just like last day Matt as long as the D is in the middle in the first one and the B is in the middle on the second one I don't care what you have to see me Why do I know those two angles are the same? What was the Z rule? Alternate interior and I now have angle. Oh, no, wait a minute. I have side angle or Angle side So Emily, I'm either going to go side angle side or angle side angle Hmm. Oh DB equals DB. Oh What did we call this one remember what we actually just wrote?  Which one which rule angle sides angle side angle side or side side side Did you say side angle side? Did you not? Could you do both of those with a bit more volume so I can think you're right? Have some pride hold your head up me. I'm smart side angle side and it's gonna be the last line triangle ABD is congruent to triangle CDB Five marks Last one To do it. I found these last three easier than the other ones. I think they might have been but I think also you're getting better Boston read the first line to me. I'm gonna mark that because it's given ED boom boom equals EF boom boom. Okay, and Then it says Boston angle D equals well This angle right here How big does it? What's the other angle? It has to be the same size as Sorry, what goes here? Why you're saying they're the same because they're the same that's called circular reasoning Why are they the same? Here's your hint Look at the previous line that we entered into it No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not given give is it written here that those two angles are the same What I'm saying is though, why did they need to tell me this? What about this? Let's me make this assumption people Yeah, that's why they had to tell me that otherwise I could not assume line two without them telling me line one was correct That makes sense Good By the way, I repped after school yesterday. I repped two games the day before I repped a game the day before My voice is on its last legs. I'm not on a grumpy mood. All I have right now is loud angry voice So if it sounded like I was getting on your case, I'm actually enjoying teaching you if I go higher and more polite I got nothing. Sorry feels weird Almost sound like mr. Goulet or maybe not quite that bad Marcus, what am I gonna write on my next line? I guess my next given because that's a given Dg equals gf. I'm gonna mark that Dg E123 Equals gf new one two three. Oh Which congruence you rule have I just forced that into here Sierra? See it darn right That's my last line and the statement's gonna be triangle D E g is congruent to triangle F D give yourself a score out of three give yourself a total score out of count them 12 Put your name on it Pass them down to the end of the row and I'll walk down the middle and collect them and the person in the middle We'll put them in a nice neat pop get your calculators out if you haven't already We paused right there last day on our wonderful review of Pythagoras But now we're gonna start to try and get into tougher questions this year as well We're not just gonna say here's a triangle fill in the blanks a little bit But we're gonna start to give you what are called compound diagrams diagrams of more than one triangle of overlapping triangles multiple steps The nerdy cool stuff Let's look at finding a missing leg. So it says find the missing side Example three is this a right angle triangle Sierra So I can use Pythagoras So I'm gonna write down a squared plus b squared Equals c squared what always has to go where the c is the hypotenuse What's the hypotenuse here? I'm gonna have to put the 73 squared right here a and b it doesn't matter I'll put the x squared first because I kind of like to see the x in front and then the 55 squared here now what I need to get the x squared by itself How okay, and again if you can do this in your head showing No work if you just go straight to going x squared equals 73 squared minus 55 squared I'm good with that now we get at our calculator. What does x squared work out to what is 73 squared minus 55 squared? I have no idea 73 squared minus 55 squared equals 2304 Jordan how do I get out of a squared? So when I square root this what do I get Jordan? I think you said the answer didn't you thought I heard it no evenly Wow my friend who made this up clearly Knows more triangles than I do that work out evenly. I never I don't mind decimals I Guess centimeters Devon how much of this do you have to do in your homework?  Would I do that on a test? You always want to show extra work on a test in case you make them a straight I don't get the wrong button on your calculator. I don't notice it I can still get part marks and mr. Do it saw my work that usually on a test I only give a half mark for the answer. I give everything else for the work example for a 5.3 meter ladder is leaned against the wall so that the foot of the ladder is 1.2 meters away from the base of the wall Huh? Devon, what does that stand for?  Where's this? Wow Where's this 5.3 have to go so here here or here? Right there Where's the 1.2 gonna go Jordan? Now we can do a process of elimination if you're not sure Jordan. What are they asking me to find? I'm pretty sure that's where I'm gonna put that's how high yes Which means by default? I'm pretty sure that's the base 1.2 meters away from the base of the wall All right, let's take a bit of a shortcut. We have Pythagoras written right here. Yes, so Marcus Can you just read to me what squared plus what squared equals what squared? Don't read the ABC? I'll give you a hint x squared plus Yeah Yeah, how I have it squared equals Yeah, if you go straight to that now, I'm good How do I get the x squared by itself Marcus? So x squared is gonna be 5.3 squared minus 1.2 squared We'll write this in our notes again in your homework if you want to Boston go straight to your calculator as long as you're getting them Right, I will trust you to do that. I will also trust it. You're getting them wrong. You'll show more work Yes, Erin make sense Erin what do you get what is x squared? What is 5.3 squared minus 1.2 squared louder to six point six five Okay, how do I get rid of a squared Aaron? Oh Square root that for me, please What do you get five point one six even or five point one six blah blah blah junk Okay, what's after this you drowned off properly what's after the six a two okay five point one six meters Last and this is probably the new part Multi-step questions a ramp is placed on two cement blocks that are one point two meters apart If the blocks are two point three meters and four point one meters high respectively in that order Find the length of the ramp say what I think what we're saying is this small cement block big cement block Ramp, believe me. You don't want to try me drawing these by hand.  I'll cheat and use the software What else have they told me? Now we look for numbers What's one point two how far from here to here more importantly How far from here to here because I'm trying to get a triangle 1.2 meters Joe, what's the next number they gave me? Okay, where's it 2.3? Oh? Right here 2.3 meters from here to here Is that right? What about that next number Joe from here to here? What do they want me to find Adam? Where's that oh ah That yes, okay They want me to find C squared. There's a squared up. Ooh. Do I know B squared or B? Jordan's nodding his head. I don't think I do yet, but are you rubbing your eye? I thought you were nodding your head well Jordan How long how long How long 2.3? What's left? How you getting that? How you getting that ah? So they don't need to tell me this I can figure it out 4.1 minus 2.3. How long is This side right here is it 1.8. What's my equation going to be what squared plus what squared equals what squared? Shania equals x squared Is the x squared by itself already? Oh, that's nice So let's go to our calculator square root of that and I get x equals 2.16 for me Could I could have gone to two pot after the sixes I get a three I Could have gone to 2.2 because they went to one decimal place when in doubt I usually go to two decimal places as kind of my dollars and cents rule of thumb there whatever last one example six in the diagram below ooh We understand this now because you've done geometry ad equals 26 millimeters. Let's add that Bd equals 31.5 and ac equals 10. What do they want me to find? AB this picture actually has three triangles in it The great big one The right hand one and the left hand one and Jordan I'm kind of eyeballing this but this great big one here I don't think I can use Pythagoras because this angle here. I think looks bigger than 90 to me So I'm gonna have to use either the right hand one or the left hand one or both now I'd like to start here, but to do Pythagoras. I need to know two sides. I only know one So even though this says find x I think I'm gonna spend more time Courtney trying to find this side How can I find how big this is? Jordan so you're saying do Pythagoras in the right triangle and that'll tell me Hey, how about I put the letter y since I used x up already There it is then I go 31.5 minus y gives me that Hey, what letter would be smart to put here if I've already used up x and y hang on Adam what letter would be smart to put here if I already used x and y what would be a Z? Absolutely, what it's doing. Mr. Duke. I am Canadian. Sorry all right We've got our procedure then you hear what Jordan said find y first and Then go 31.5 minus y gets you zed and then Pythagoras in the left-hand triangle to find x good Try it on your own. I'll do it up here. Let's see if we end up in the same spot. Yeah No, I'm wrong. Did you get 24 for y? So double-check your you got to be didn't get this Here's where I found y here's where I found zed. Here's where I found x. See where you ziggid 12.5. Yeah, or no. Yeah worked out evenly sort of I'm amazed See it if not object if you didn't get this call me over in a second. Yeah Okay, I'll come look in a second. Let me get everybody going first Goal is no homework for the weekend. So I wanted to give you lots of time to work on this your homework is number one number two three a 3d 3e 3f Four five is nasty if you get it. I'm impressed. Okay, so I signed number one all two all three a and d E and f four and five you got the holy smokes 40 30 40 minutes to finish it off. Let me take questions here


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We can't play it today, but it's definitely going to go back down to that previous area and break it. I know that now. Again, we wouldn't have gone long it. You're not going to go long it today. But if it had gapped up to 200 or something, it might have started to look like it was going to do something right. And it's not. So it's definitely, definitely, definitely lower. But for now, I think we have a couple things to watch today. I did see the sea bay earlier. It looks the same as earlier. The fact that it's not moving, I think now, is a benefit to this. So I'm choosing here to watch this. I'll go back to the other things. Spot's going to be very wippy, very spready, and I think this breaks the timing here. I do not know. It's preferred if it breaks 55. Let's see here. So we're on eBay. It's going to be very flexible today. Soap's going to be 5560 if in fact it sets up, which I don't know. Here, this just broke 55. Yay. Okay, this is going. Let's do 90 by 60. There, do it. Do it if you want it. 90 by 60. Be in it if you want it.  Did everybody get it? This is unexpected. I'm glad we watched it. Yay. Glentia. It's almost at 54.  Glad I was prepared. We would have never got this if I wasn't staying on top of it. You had time to get it. Here we go. I don't think it was a piggy about the targets yesterday, but I'll go back and look at that. I'll go back and look at everything from yesterday. 5421.  Slop City, USA is this market here, and look, Boeing's falling. So look at that. Wow. Can you believe that? MCD might even fall another day here. Let's see if this is it. I hope. If you didn't do this, you could do this here. And actually you could have got out of this here. I did not. It happened so quick, so fast. Did anyone get out of it? I think we have the stop at the right place, but if you didn't do it, you could do it right here. This I knew would be a little bit squiggly. I think I'm going to leave the spot go for now. And this is starting to go too, but I'm going to leave this. Okay. So this came down in here. It didn't get to 54, but had a massive bar if you hit it where I said or anywhere near it. And you could have just taken it out. I'm just pressed it like without even thinking. But let's see if we can get this down some more. I think this is going to get to 54. Whether or not it breaks that, I can't say, but I'm watching it here early. And this looks great. Here we're getting it. And we will be getting out of this this morning. No FNs or buts. And then I actually have a New York story. You want to hear it? All right. We're at 54, 40, 32. Here we go. We're going to break the low. Here we go. eBay. And if you didn't get it when I called it, you could have done it when it backed up. We had the day after all that we wanted, which was a nice green day, but I am disappointed in Boeing. I'm very disappointed. And I'm glad that we didn't do any trades in that into the earnings. I'm disappointed in Tesla too. That was another one that didn't do anything consequential either. So Amazon and Apple are the next big ones out Thursday night. I don't think there's on Facebook because Facebook was supposed to be out tonight. Then they moved it. So I have to look. I don't think there's anything tonight that's significant like that could move the market. Here we go. eBay got to get under 25 got to get under 20. Let me look right now. Today is, you believe that it is almost August. Here we go. eBay. It is almost August. That's insane. We're at 25 again. Here, eBay, eBay, eBay. Here I'll look at that later. And the button here watching this waiting to see if it breaks 54. We're getting a nice call. Beautiful movement. I'm so glad I stayed on top of this. This wasn't an easy morning. There was a lot to look at low quality. A couple things were like main beans. I'm so glad we did this. Went with my gut today and the system combined. Paid off. Paid off and I'll show you why I like this later. Come on, eBay. No options today. McDonald's worked. Hope everyone listened to me and got out. Come on 5410. Gosh darn it. This is where we were yesterday. No, we're gonna fall. We're gonna have the market on our side here. I'm bowing strapping, which is going to pull down this. You could be out of that though. You could be out of that. 10 cents from the number you could have been out. Here, let me just look at this for tonight. Doodly doo. C-T-S-H. PayPal. Oh, we're gonna look at that. PayPal, Q-Com. Couple of things. I mean a lot of things, but not things I'm in love with. A lot of things I'm in love with. Oh, it's good we didn't do the spot. Oh, look at this bow and go. Put anything along. It was lower. Number 54. Who's still in eBay? Who got out? Who's with me here? Not taking any chances today, even though this is early. Could this theoretically go all the way down here? We broke 54. Could this go to a bigger number today if we have the market with this? Yes. But you know, after yesterday, yesterday was a long day. Paid off, but it once again here. Wow. Yay. Come on. You could be out. Are your hannies on the button waiting, waiting, waiting? Come on, let's see if we can break 70. Wow, some nice traction here. No, no puts in bowing. I'll explain why when we're done with this here, which some of you are. I'll explain. You could be out of this. I'm trying to hold it for a baby second. A baby. Of course, I said that yesterday.


I'm gonna have good memories of it in the future because I had such a good time watching it. I liked the scenery, liked all the twists. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here. So they wanna do a little movie review on Glass Onion, a Knives Out Mystery from 2022. Now, I don't know if you guys have been following my channel but one of my favorite movies to watch are mystery movies and there haven't been too many good mystery movies recently, one of the more famous ones is the original Knives Out and I got about an hour into it when it first came out something turned me off to it and I just was like, screw this movie, I'm not gonna watch it but since then people have still recommended it to me because I like mystery movies. So decided to watch the original Knives Out in 4K, it was actually better than I thought, I really did enjoy it and I went right into this one because it's the sequel, watched it also in 4K and I gotta say, I like them about the same, they're very solid, not perfect but very enjoyable to me but I was a little bit more compelled to review this glass onion, I'm not sure why so I'm sure I'm gonna be jumping into the synopsis at some point, so let's just jump into the pros I have with this movie. One of the biggest pros right away was really, really nice scenery. So the glass onion is essentially a mansion on an island and so most of the movie takes place on this mansion on the island and it is just breathtaking, especially in 4K. I'm somebody who likes to be taken away when I watch a movie, I wanna feel like I'm in that space and this movie really does that for me. I do think this also has like a really good cast and the acting was really good here. Now, the characters are designed really not to be that likable, which I was struggling with in the beginning but if you think about the original clue, like I don't know too much about it but I'm pretty sure nobody's really overly likable in the original clue and I feel like this is kind of along that line, it's a typical clue type story so nobody's really that likable but I liked all the characters and I liked all the acting here and I will say that I'm pretty tough critic when it comes to comedy and this movie wasn't funny the entire time but there was a few times that something was genuinely funny. I think I laughed out loud a few times so I did appreciate that thrown in. It wasn't something I was laughing the entire time but I had some legit laughs and I would say the most entertaining part of this movie if you're a mystery lover was all the twists and connected dots. Now, this movie is supposed to be kind of like indulgent for somebody who likes mystery. It's got lots of twists to it, lots of things that connect by the end and it's just very indulgent if you like mystery like me. Along with the original knives out, same with this movie, this movie really just twists everything you expect to happen on its head and goes so many different places that nobody could ever guess from the beginning which is what I wanted from this movie so I appreciated that. I find this actually a little bit easier to watch versus the original knives out. I don't really know why. Maybe it's the scenery, I'm not too sure but I found it was a little bit easier to watch. I don't know if it's a better movie, I'd have to watch them both but I found that it was easier to watch, it would be easier for me to recommend. Another thing I really like about this movie is Daniel Craig. Now, Daniel Craig is probably one of the only likeable people in this movie so there is at least somebody likeable and I was a little bit on the fence when I saw him in that first movie because he has this really Southern American accent and he normally has like a British accent so it's kind of like a really big jump and I was kind of unsure how I felt in the first movie about it but in this movie, I really, really like it. He's really entertaining and it was definitely a high point of the movie and it was nice to have somebody that you can root for and another good thing is that he always knows more than he leads on so I don't know, he's just a little bit above the game, I like that. It does feel like a really complete movie. The best way I would describe it is an indulgent mystery movie. It's gonna give you a nice good two hours of mystery and clues and slow building and I just loved every second of it. All right guys, if I were to jump into the cons of this movie, it's really that none of the characters are really that likeable and again, maybe that I could have put this in a mix because it's not really like a bad thing.  This movie is a tiny bit slow at times. It never gets to be too slow but it's not a super, super quick movie. I did appreciate it being a little bit slower but there was definite times where it did feel a tad slow for me. However, a lot of things that seem insignificant actually mean something at the end so not every slow point was absolutely meaningless. I really didn't like the whole mask dance in the beginning. It seemed like everybody was wearing masks, everyone's doing like the elbow touch. I just really didn't want that in this movie. I know it's only for like five minutes and it's only because we just got out of COVID so it's kind of a little bit more realistic. Like maybe if they shot this during COVID that's how it was, I don't know but I'm coming into this movie to escape all that BS. I don't want to deal with it so I really wish they didn't have that in the beginning but doesn't really hurt it too bad for me. Honestly guys, this is a really, really enjoyable movie. Best way I could describe it is an indulgent mystery movie. If you like mysteries, this is something to indulge in. If I had to rate it, I'd probably rate it like an eight to an 8.5 out of 10 that feels about right. I really enjoyed it. I don't know how often I'd watch it. I would probably personally wanna own it because I like mysteries and I enjoyed a lot with this movie. I'm gonna have good memories of it in the future because I had such a good time watching it. I liked the scenery, liked all the twists but for you guys, I would probably suggest to try at least to watch if you like mystery movies. I really don't see how you wouldn't like this movie. It just has everything. It's very indulgent over the top. Mysteries on top of mysteries on top of mysteries which you should like as a mystery lover. So anyways guys, that's been my review of glass onion. Should I review the original knives out? I'd be very interested to see. Have you seen knives out or this movie? Tell me down below. Anyways guys, we're on the road to 50,000 subscribers and I couldn't do without any of you guys' help. You guys are the best. Having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.