Mike, what should I tell Dirksen when he starts trying to put me on the spot down here on the civil rights thing today, just work it out with the leaders? That's right. Tell him that I gave a report to you yesterday that I told you that we, that we, Dirksen and I were in constant contact and working together agreeably and it would be your suggestion that he and I just keep working together and it's our responsibility now. I'm going to tell him that I support the strong civil rights bill. He gave out a long interview of what he's going to tell me today before he comes, which is not like him. I don't know what's happening to him here lately.  The first thing he said, he wouldn't treat his dog like I treated mine. Oh, I didn't know he said that. Oh, yeah.   All of this is a big play about nothing because that's all they can get and Dirksen's right in the middle of it to try and stir it up and it's too little a thing he's too little a thing for a big man like Dirksen but I get it from Larry O'Brien that Humphrey wanted us to tell him that we want to get closure on a whole bill but I get it from the paper that you are going with closure on the jury trial. Well, I raised the question with him after this meeting yesterday and he wouldn't go along with it. On the bill? On the bill and I would rather go on the bill but we've got to get those 23 to 25 votes there and if we can get closure on this at least we'll break the ice and we'll get enough committed it might be in our favor this way. I would far rather the bill. Well then what I'm going to say to him is this I'm going to say now these details can't be decided down in White House legislative wise I have Attorney General and he's in constant contact with Senator Mansfield and Senator Humphrey and whatever you all work out I'm sure it will be agreeable. Yes, sir. Put it back on us and spoke us back. That's good. Okay, thank you. Bye, Mr. President.


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I'm so fine. I'm smoking in here. Oh, which one has the cough? Oh, don't grab that. Don't grab that without this thing. Oh, it's hot. Hot on a two dollar pistol. Oh, jeez. Oh, he was the fattest guy around. Oh, my gosh. Oh. What? Smoking in here? Leave her right open? No, because it's not. All right, go ahead and leave her open. Put some clothes on. You can't see. Smoking. Is it smoking? Probably, actually. The first guy says something about the cooking. Yeah, we know what happened. I'm listening. Go ahead and help Pat to breakfast. Where's your cup? I'll drive that in here. It's fantastic. Around somewhere. Donnie, there's coffee kicking around. There's some coffee kicking around somewhere. Do you get some? Do you have a potato in you? Yeah. Ah, boy. You've seen the video, you're knowing that. Donnie pretended to be mad that I got those potatoes. But he couldn't stop smiling when I brought him out. What do you think, fellas? How's breakfast going? Good stuff. Good. Is it edible? It is. Coffee's hot.  No. What are we going to try to do today? Something, even if it's our own. We're still trying to get him to Lobster. Yeah, I do, too. Maybe via Eddie Raymonds.  I know there's a trail that goes along Lobster Mountain, you know, on that side. I heard one of those trails we definitely can't take, but the one we can. I've been on it, but I can't remember how the hell I got on it. We'll go up to Eddie Raymonds. If he's around, we'll talk to him. If he's not, we'll go look for trail signs. Yeah, he'll be around because this is busy time again. Somebody sent me a message and said, go see Eddie Raymonds. He's ornery. He's a little ornery, but he's a nice guy. Yeah, he is. I like Eddie. How many eggs do you think you could eat?  Rod? Just like you made him. Overreasing. Look, that's pretty sky and back. Thank you. That's a reflection off that light, Donny. I don't know what they say. Red Sky. Red Sky in the morning. Sailors take one in the morning. This is Red Sky. Red Sky at night. Pigeon state flight. He was like, no, it's not how it goes. That's what I mean. He was like, Red Sky at night. Sailors delight. I'm like, no, Red Sky at night. Pigeon state flight. It is Red Sky at night. Sailors delight. Red Sky in the morning. Sailors take one in the morning. Pat says, Red Sky at night. Pigeons take flight. Red Sky in the morning. Pigeons do something else. I was dead serious. He was like, that's not how it goes. He was fired right off. He was fit to be tied. He's not going to let a Saiyan go wrong like that. That was funny. So now every single time I see him. Pat's kids know what is Red Sky. Pigeons take flight. And if it's Red Sky in the morning, Pigeons do something else. Yeah, something, something. Something, something, something. We're not 100% sure what we're going to do today, but we're going to probably jump on the snowmobiles. We're going to go get loaded up on the trailers because you're not allowed to run the snowmobiles on a plowed road like a golden road. Take the haulers down the golden road, turn off loop and head over to Eddie Raymond's store and see about a trail that might get us in the lobster. And also take a look at Moosehead Lake see what that looks like for slosh. And if it looks good, we're going to, we're going to try to fish somewhere. You know, as of yesterday, we were thinking we might not get to fish on this trip at all.  I can't even imagine what the big ponds are. And the last thing we want to do is get stuck in the slosh. That's a nightmare. But temperature, weather today, as you can see, T-shirt, it's pretty mild. We're like mid to upper 20s right now, Fahrenheit. It's about 7 in the morning. We drove some breakfast into us and having some good conversation in there and kind of thinking the plan over a little bit harder exactly what we're going to do. So I think, I think we're set up for a pretty good day. We just got to figure out what we want to do. I think one thing's agreeable is that we all want to try to fish somewhere, whether we catch anything or not, but just sometimes just the triumphs all would count and half the fun of it's in the triumph, you know, we're already set up for a trip that we won't forget. I can promise you that just getting in here and this time of year with all this snow was quite a feat, but we got to change Donny's belt on a snowmobile. I guess it's the original belt and he was slipping pretty hard even on the flat ground. So we got to change that today. That's about it for gear. Otherwise we're looking pretty good. Holy smokey in here. Not bad now. Not bad when you sat in here. You guys giving Elliott an education in here? We were trying to talk about some things. The dirty seagull, that was his favorite. Yeah, I'm not going to put that on TV Pat. No, I know. That was his favorite? This isn't my new one. This is a Wal-Mart Clarence curse shot. Did I ever tell you about the time Pat and I were in Wal-Mart looking at knives? And I was like, oh no! Oh my balls! What is that? My ball parents from my slingshot. We're in Wal-Mart. The best ever. We were looking at knives and I go, jeez. Be careful Pat. I go, be careful of sharp. He goes, I forgot more about knives. You'll never know. And I look over and he's got a blood trail going. All the way to Wal-Mart. He sliced his whole hand wide open. And there was a blood trail all the way out the door. And he's like... Do you want to hear the real story? Yeah. So we're sitting at Wal-Mart. He's looking at these knives.  I forgot more about knives. So I'm like, whatever. So I'm looking at something all of a sudden here. And I go over and he's doing this. He's walking away and I'm like, what? He's got a blood trail. He's cut himself wide open on the knife.  No. He laid himself open. That was hilarious. It's true. That was so funny. He probably stopped looking at the traps. And he's always going at his own pace. At your own pace. That's your work. What's happening? You guys fishing? We work. How'd it go? Nothing. How's the slosh? It was real bad. There were a couple of three days. Yesterday it wasn't good. Were you up in Northeast Kerry? Yeah. We're going to head that way. We're going to try to get into Lobster if we can. But if we can't, we're going to probably hit Moose Head. There you go. You guys have a good time. Thank you. Have a great day guys. Good luck. We know we can get to Moose Head, but I imagine it's pretty slushy. Hopefully Lobster is not too bad either. But we're going to head over to Eddies and see if we can pick up that trail that gets into Lobster Lake. And see how it looks. If we can pick up that trail the whole way, it's definitely not worth taking. But then we can just fish Moose Head. If it's been broken at least before the last storm, then it'll be worth driving in. Lobster is a really special lake for Donny. So I'd love to be able to get him in there and just fish. Just to get in there really and see Spencer, Big Spencer, Little Spencer, see the mountains. Just around that lake would be a great thing for him and me as well. First time for me. It hasn't. Do you know if anyone's broken through? No.  In the other way? It's parked there so they must be going all the way. Oh, but I see some snowmobile tracks. Yeah. I think that's how they're doing it. Getting on it. Like betters, do you think? No, you're not allowed this year to go on that problem. Oh, okay. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah. I know that it's supposed to be a roundabout way of doing it. Yeah. Is there a trail from here? No real trail. It's just people knowing how to get there from here. Yeah. It shouldn't be that way because I have never been. Okay. Well, thank you. Good luck. Yeah. Be careful because they said moose head and lobster. Oh, slosh. Yeah, wicked. Yeah, we're going to have the same thing. Right, we are going to do it. We're going to fish here at Northeast Kerry on the northeast part of Moose Head Lake. It's not like the best brook crowd or toad fishing, but hey, we don't care because we're fishing and our plans kind of fell apart and we didn't move around too much out here because there is quite a bit of slosh on Moose Head. One little patch of slosh. Sorry guys, we're switching gears and moving into brook trout. We're all rigged up for Lakers. So that's what we're looking at here. We had all dead bait to fish lobster. We got about that much ice, so we're looking at about 5 foot of water there. That's perfect. So we brought up some Jack's Melt, some freshwater Jack's Melt for bait and I do have some pin smelts too, so we'll get the pin smelts set but this one we're going to set Jack's Melt. So there's 7 to 8, 5 to 8 pound brookies in this lake, so I don't think they'd shy away from that hook, do you? No. So the only thing you have to make sure is you get that air bladder punctured and if the guts have air in it, you can kind of feel them. You got to get those so it doesn't float upside down, belly up. So it feels like we're good. We'll know in a second how he sinks. Kind of want him to sit. He's sinking. But he is upside down, so we're going to try to squeeze that air out of him. You hear it? Yep. So now we should be golden. That's a lot better. That'll sit at least upright. And we had about 5 foot, so we want to be like mid column and although you're probably not going to catch many Lakers this shallow, you can still catch Lakers this shallow. All right. It'd be exciting if this one goes up for a brookie-wounded Elliott. Oh, yeah. Put that big bait on there. You might pick her up just one more notch. That big bob sits down pretty low. And then you want to make sure your reel isn't hitting the side of the ice because the fish will feel that too. Don't we're set out? Just like that. On to the next one, bud. You got a fish? Huh? You got a fish? Nice! A Laker. Are you a hand-lining enough? Well, look at my spool get up. Dude, what a pretty lake trout. Oh, yeah. I can't. It's too slimy. Hold on. I got to get this. You got your human stance. No, I don't have anything on me right now. Keep it or let it go. I don't want it.  I got to look at the laws here to be honest with you. Alright, he's going back now. Good job, buddy. Nice! Well, we didn't get scunt, guys. Nope. We did have a mess. Alright, Pat's got quite a mess going on here. I saw him hand over fisting that fish in, so I punched her to get in here and look. And he had a fish. Got it on the jig rod. In what? 5 foot of water? No, there's like 10 here. The deepest we hit out there was about 15. It just went under the ice when he hit it. Lakers are so funny. Those are random. Nothing? I had a little Swedish pimple with a stripe of yellow on it. That's a decent fish. Alright, so we got two lake trout traps out there and we got two brookie sets in here. So Elliot and I are going to go set some more brookie traps and we're going to go from there. Okay. Is it random? First thing you want to do is see if it's running. No, it's not running. Hold on. Then you look and see if the line is to the side or not. It's kind of to the side. Yeah, so there's a pretty good chance to fish on. So you're going to want to come over here because it's that way. You always want to be away from it. And now you're going to just feel the line. If you feel any weight on it, snap them. Pull them hard. Okay, definitely chewed it. Pretty good. Oh, look at that. Yeah, we could change the bait. This one's pretty mangled. He'd eat it. But that would have been a nice brookie if we didn't have bad bait. If we had live bait. You don't know if Eddie Raymond sells crawlers, do you? Yeah, we might take a quick ride out. Brookies love crawlers. Would you jig them? What do you need? 80 pounds. Negative. What do you need for real? Whatever you got. 10? Okay. 12? Only trouble is, Pat, if I gave some to you, I'd have to give some to everybody out here. You know what? Thank you. Yeah, we'll give you some. We got two flags, Pat. I know. That one stripped of at least. No. Well, you guys have been yelling at each other fighting the whole morning. Donny's facing the other way. He can't even stand you. He doesn't even look at you. Look at him over there. He said it's not fair that flags go off the side on both sides. Why isn't he catching anything? I told him to put something on his line, but he's like, you know, too heavy. Yeah. No way. He's going to film. You guys are going to be on the next episode. Give us your names one more time. TJ. Zach. Gavin. Awesome. 10 guys from Wyndham. 10? 8 of us. You guys doing some riding today? We just came for a little ride right now, and we came up Wednesday. We're leaving Sunday. Nice. Good trip. We'll see who we're trying. We caught a couple of rookies and a salmon so far. And a Laker. Nice. It's a good day. We're just getting set up. Elliott had two flags. We just have an old dead bay. Just nasty stuff we brought up for Lobster. Just like that. I told these guys, you can fish moose head your whole life and never get a day like this. No end. Sun just beating on you. This is awesome. Well, cool. Good to meet you. Thanks for checking out the channel. Be safe out there. Thanks again. Lunch. Lunch is served. Good job cooking. Thank you. Look at that. What is that pickle? What's that? Is that spicy? That was a hot pepper. You all right? You know that pickle?  No. Is it dill? No. It's like dill. We're like half dill and half dill. Good. It's good? Does it? There's definitely something wrong with your mouth. I broke away from the group to try to find us a route to get onto Lobster Lake. Found it pretty easy. Not far from Eddie Raymond's there. The trail is pretty bumpy. It's like a washboard. Bumpier and a sieve. Got in there, went across the lake, popped out and then I hit the loop road. I guess the west side of the loop road pops back out on, I think, what they call, the Saboomik Road, the Eddie Raymond's Road. Now I took it the opposite direction. Right now I'm by Little Lobster Pond. The place where we're staying should be right over there on top of the hill. Only a couple miles crow flight to get there is a different story. I'm taking the sled and doing a little exploring now so hopefully we can get out onto Lobster Lake tomorrow. Either way, we're going to get on it. We're going to go down to Eddie Raymond's and then go down that bumpy trail. I'm trying to find us a little bit easier way in. I figured it's a good time to stop and get a cup of coffee, get my kidneys stop rattling from all that bumps. Let's see what's down here in the stream. That's Little Lobster right there. Any fish swimming around? It's so pretty up here in Maine. In Maine in general. Then you come up here in the woods and it's even prettier. That sled, I can't tell you how impressed I am compared to, but I'll tell you I'm not a seasoned operator at all and I could be buried a lot of times and I haven't been buried too badly yet. Alright, did it. Pretty pumped about it. Got quite a bit of snow on the machine. Even came over the hood a couple of times. Broke trail, camps right over there. Lobster Lake is that way. We got a trail broken. I just plowed through and then came back and learned a ton. The first time I broke this trail to get into camp I didn't really know what I was doing at all. First one to admit it right here, no experience. The second time I did it and no time flat. Breaking trail that time went a heck of a lot quicker because I did two things different. I stayed on the throttle pretty hard. Kept her over 25 miles an hour so she was floating and staying on top and doing a little drifting and I threw my weight around a lot more to control the snowmobile from digging in and auguring down. So something I learned from the first time coming in where it took me like two hours to go a mile and a half breaking trail and flattening it for the other guys. I just did that in less than 20 minutes in this direction by giving her a heck of a lot more throttle and throwing my weight around and using a little bit more experience. So I almost missed the trail once I augered off it, but I was the first one to do this. We got 39 inches of snow right here. Pretty soft and it's starting to get packed now. So tomorrow morning we'll be able to come out of camp which is right down there and go this way and hit Lobster Lake. I'm going to time it right now to see how long it takes but it's not going to be too bad a ride. There's one bumpy section where it meets up with another trail and other guys have gooseed it pretty hard but I'm stoked about packing this trail, breaking this trail and finding it and finding the way through. So I got to get back, get to go see the boys see if they caught any fish and get prepared for tomorrow. Let's go to Lobster Lake. Oops! Maybe a little too much confidence that time. Sled right off. I probably could have gooseed her I don't know but I got her stuck right now so I'm going to dig her out get her back up on top and wind her back down. Thing of beauty! Got her. Wasn't really stuck too bad but stuck stuck. I probably could have just gooseed it while I was going down but I don't know once I get going sideways and get my weight going the wrong way I just stopped it. Let's head her back. I'll tell you one thing that full-size shovel is nice to have. She's deep, she's up over my waist. Alright, I think we're good to go. Never really like rushing but I got a little urgency to get back to the boys. I'm sure they're a little bit worried. So try not to do that again. That cost me 5-10 minutes. Whoa! There we go. Think about that. Wasn't even barely hooked. Nice one. Oh look at the camera. You don't want to look. Nice one. There we go. I'll show them back down. Not me. How many fish do you get? Nice. How many flags? Two or three more. Flags but no fish. Dammit. Did you save the bait? Saved the only one I could. I made it to Lobster. It is a goat path from here. We're not going that way. I went across the lake, I popped out and then I plowed a trail all the way to camp. To camp? From where? We're going to pop out about 500 yards north of Lobster Lake camps. This comes out in Jackson's Cove and I went out and across and there's a camp above Lobster Lake camps. You mean I spent a point? Yup. So I popped out and I went through the woods got on the loop road and went right past Little Lobster I headed out, I hit the golden road and then I came back to camp and I just plowed that whole friggin road out and around. The one going past Greg's? I got her stuck once. I got a little confident, too confident but I plowed it through, no problem. So you can get on the lake good where you popped off. It took me, I think it's less than 20 minutes to get to the lake from Greg's. Oh wow. There's a little bumpy but there's one ITS trail you hit. It wasn't bad. But we popped out right at Leadbetters just north of Leadbetters. But you're not going through that gate by Leadbetters? No. No, you're smiling. No we're not. Because there's another single camp below Leadbetters. There's a single camp that's where we hit. That used to be Mrs. Leadbetters. That's about where we pick it up. Okay and then you come out that road right? There's some slush on the lake. Yeah about the same as this.  Surprised? Don't want to blow out here. Oh my God. He sleeps all the time. Couldn't get him off the sled. He was like, I'm going to take a nap yelling all night. So he slept on the sled for like two hours. Or Donny. I didn't hear a thing. I didn't hear a thing. Take the hearing aids out. You're all golden. So I loaded her up. Now we're heading back to camp. Gonna fuel up all the snowmobiles because we got a little bit of a ride tomorrow. And get all our ice fishing stuff ready and we're going to go down to camp and have a great night, have a meal, and get ready for the cribbage and get all the gear ready for tomorrow. And then tomorrow we're going to take a ride right from camp all the way to Lobster Lake. So I'm pretty excited about that. We won't have to load up or trailer or anything like that. The way I took from Eddie Raymond Store into Lobster is just brutal. It is a go path. You're up, you're down, up, down, up, down. It's crazy. Just nonstop relentless bumps.  If you go too fast, you can start breaking stuff, either on the machine or on your body. Lobster lake, snow joke, how much slush there is on it. There's a lot of slush on it, so we're going to have to be pretty strategic on where we fish and where we put the snowmobiles. Last thing I want to do is get the big one stuck, but the two smaller ones, I don't think you're going to do too well out there. There's a lot of snow out there and a lot of slush. It was worse than Moose Ed was. Didn't see one fisherman out there, so that's a good thing. All right, all right. We made it back to camp.  So that way the boys won't have a problem tomorrow with the other snowmobiles. It is looking nice. Trails looking good, so we shouldn't have a problem. So tonight, this afternoon, we're going to go through this tote sled and get it packed up with the stuff we need.  If I can get these guys out of bed in the morning, we'll get over there early and get some fishing. We're not going to get up early. I'm telling you that we can't sleep here with this guy. Why? We're up all night. He's up there banging the wall. I thought he fell out of bed. And he's talking and he's sleeping. I don't know. You must have had a bad childhood or something. Oh, Jesus. No, you had a bad time in college. Oh, in college. I heard his roommate was hired on him. Really? My roommate was hired on him. What are you guys doing? Just eating? Yeah, I have it. Getting soft. Oh man, that's deep. Oh, this is a mess. Well, I got to get all that stuff ready for tomorrow. Better do it now than in the morning, I think. What you working on over here, old fella? We're having cranberry muffins. Stuff for dessert? The supper, along with supper. Wow, what do you got going for supper? Chocolate cream. We're having radia, pork tenderloins, mashed potato, frozen peas, muffins, and chocolate cream pie for dessert. Wow. We be living like kings tonight, fellas. Prince, Prince Elliot. Elliot, don't even beg me to hire Elliot. I wasn't gonna.  Remember that one time we were there in Donny was there in Barbie?  Donny was like, you know he's taking the day off. That's boiling. Yeah. It's boiling. So how long do I have to wait for this dinner? You know, breakfast, breakfast took this long. 15 minutes. Breakfast took this long, they'd be called lunch. Oh. Donny, it's well worth the wait. You haven't eaten it yet. We don't have mashed potatoes instead of chunked potatoes. What's happening, guys? We've only been waiting since 4 or 14. It's now 6, 17, 5, 30.  This one is garlic and honey. This one just plain. Wow, Donny. What is it? Pork tenderloin. Pork tenderloin. Cranberry muffins. Cranberry muffins. Sweet peas. Sweet peas with butter. Mashed potato. I need a spoon of potato. I don't want butter. Is that lame butter? Yeah, come on, supper. You can fool with that foolishness later. Oh, Jesus, Donny. I was thinking we were going to just have breakfast.  Yeah, I know. You could be eating Joe's cooking. You don't like them. No, I like them. No, you don't like them. They were good. No, you don't like them. I love them. They were my favorite. Yeah. Did you hear the selection where you get it over? I'm just going to eat whatever you cook because it looks fantastic. Don't complain. I'm not that one. You know the story. I do. What about the time frame? That's the only problem. You should stop making dinner around lunchtime so we can eat. Jesus, you don't get in here. You stay out half the night fishing. Whatever. You're the other one that wants to eat the early bird special every day. What you got in the box, Elliot? Oh, chocolate pie. Open it up, please. Just let him do his kickers, Lonnie. Oh, Jesus. Elliot. No, I'm okay. I'm ready for bed already. Is that from Moody's? Yeah. Wow. I don't want one that big, but I'll take one. He's allergic to chocolate. You're allergic to chocolate? I'm not. It makes his belly swell. It's colder than a witch's dick, Donnie. Oh, that's how that goes. Colder than a wild digger's toe. Dark in the pocket. Slick in the bottle. Maybe you couldn't understand that bottle one. Now you use it all the time. All the time. He could not understand what that meant. What is it? Slicker in the bottle. Slicker than a bottle? Yeah. The roads. Roads are like a bottle. Have you ever been in love stuff, like? Oh, it's pretty. You probably never want to go again. Probably not. It's harder than a bottle in there. Open the door?   Al, one time, he was up here alone. This was, you know, I wasn't with Al. He said he caught a gut hook something right up in here. That's the biggest part. Where that two is. And the wind was, he was in a canoe alone. And the wind was blowing straight sideways. And he landed the fish way down in the cold. Wow. And it was a seven pound salmon. Oh, yeah. That's a big salmon. Yeah.  He just couldn't, couldn't fight, you know, he's fighting the fish and he's fighting the wind. Donny, you're out last in all these young pups. Yeah, I can't believe. You're still working hard. Because he slept in that trailer last night. We'll try it out. Isn't it, so I can get in there. It's stuffed everywhere. That's not my stuff. This isn't your green sack. Yes, it's mine, right, Donny? Huh? Is this your green sack? Yes, it is. Okay. It's your stuff. Well, Jesus, what do you need? You could fatty, fatty two by four, couldn't fit through the bathroom door.  Well, guys, that is gonna do it for tonight. Pretty good day, all, all in all, we found a way on the Lobster Lake, found a way to get to northeast Kerry from here without even hooking up the trailers. I'm pretty tired from all that ride and beating up on those trails. We got a new trail packed down to get to Lobster tomorrow and we're going to try to get into Lobster. So make sure you tune in for tomorrow's episode. I don't know what's going to happen. Maybe a big tog. Maybe we'll be stuck in the flop in the slush. Might get about three snowmobiles stuck. Yeah, you never know. But it's going to be fun. I know that.


Good morning folks Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of mostly sunny Delray Beach Florida. This year 11 am update we got a bit of a mixed bag out there the mix is really coming from the summaries which are up 15 bucks that's about a half a percent otherwise the other U.S. Indices trading to the downside dollars off 133 S&P 5 NASDAQ is off about one Russell's down 8 as I said the summaries are up 15 Gold's up about 15 Silver's up 25 cents like recruit up a nickel natural gas up two cents the 30 Treasury printed out at 130 oh seven that's about half a point. Let's go take a look at all this means by looking at that nine panel market update chart. We begin with the U.S. mini U.S. mini is attempting to form a new profile out here now what we do know is the U.S. mini has a sell the D point pattern that sell the D point pattern would only be negated with a close about 41 77 75 we're trading out 41 73 watch the end of day close out here that new profile has resistance at 41 88 if this does take hold know that the pro that the level of support now is changed for the U.S. mini and that level be down at about the 41 06 area spot ballistics is below the low of yesterday that is a bullish signal for the S&P 500 the NQ still needs a bearish reversal candle to confirm a roadsman to mitigate her top but we've just been trading this sideways range out here price above the top of its profile that is a bullish signal the U.S. dollar index did find resistance at the top of its profile that was up at the 101 38 level now it's backing up we've just got a we have a by the D point pattern with price consolidating with inside its profile it's a fairly narrow range support is at 100.96 Goldilocks consolidating with inside its daily profile out there that's between the range of 1974 to 2040 silver does not have a top what silver did was it made the 1.272 expansion of its last set of swing points at price projection was 26 29 price didn't get all the way up there it only got up to 26 26 no 26 24 is what it got up to versus 26 29 and then it's backed off just a bit price is still above the top of its daily profile so it is in bullish formation legs we crude finding resistance at the 83 37 level that's the top of its weekly profile right now just trading with inside its daily profile resistance there at 81 81 support 7802 natural gas has got some potential it did close above the center of its bullish structure daily profile yesterday that will typically lead to a push up to the top of the profile expect natural gas to get up to 262 30 a treasury did in fact support the bottom of its daily profile yes that's at 129 22 folks stay tuned for the trader said show if you're off to start your Tuesday please have a terrific one we'll look forward to speaking with you again soon take care now


Wicked, which is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary on Broadway in October. But I thought this would be interesting, since most of you are creators and writers, to go back in time to more than a decade ago as to how that monumental success began. I will just start off by saying that I know that Stephen Schwartz was on this beautiful beach with several friends, and one of them was reading a book, and Stephen asked, what are you reading? And she said it's a book called Wicked. It's the backstory of the Wicked Witch of the West. And I will let Stephen take the story from that point on. Yeah, that's close. In 1996, I was spending most of my time in Los Angeles. I was doing animated features. I was very happy doing that and had decided that I was having a much better time and being much better treated than working in New York, particularly on Broadway, and that I wasn't going to do theater anymore. And towards the end of 1996, I went on a brief sort of weekend vacation with some friends of mine who were working in Hawaii, and we went on a snorkeling trip in Maui, so a boat on the way back, one of these friends, the folk singer Holly Neer, said, making idle conversation, oh, I'm reading this really interesting book. It's by this guy named Gregory Maguire, and it's a book called Wicked, and it's sort of the Oz story from the Wicked Witch's point of view. And it happened again.  I just thought that was one of the best ideas I'd ever heard and so right for me in so many ways. And so the next day when I flew back to Los Angeles, I called my lawyer and I said, okay, there is this book called Wicked, and somebody has the rights because it's been out for a while. And I think I need to do this, so I'm going to go out and get the book. And you need to find out who has the rights. And then a whole and very elaborate journey then commenced.  It turned out that the rights were held by Demi Moore's production company, which had a deal with Universal. And that they were in the process of adapting it as a movie. There was a screenplay being written by Linda Wolverton, who I happen to know from Disney and who I think is a really good writer. Non-musical though. Non-musical. And they were on the second draft of the screenplay. And so I tracked down, I got a meeting with Suzanne Todd, who was running Demi Moore's company at the time, and with Linda and tried to talk them into considering doing it as a musical. They were not interested in doing that. And then I sort of worked my way up the food chain and eventually got a meeting with the gentleman who was then running Universal Pictures, whose name was Mark Platt. And I had very little hope prior to this meeting because of the attitude, particularly at that time of movie studios towards musicals, because why would they do that? Because you can't really make too much money. I see Carol Hall sitting there, who was one of the only people I cited her movie as a reason why they should consider doing a musical, a Broadway musical. Anyway, I walked into Mark Platt's office, and before the meeting commenced, he sang Corner of the Sky to me. Because it turned out that he had been in Pippin in college. So I consider this a good sign. And basically made a pitch to Mark saying, look, I know that you're doing this as a movie. I don't think it's going to work as a movie. Here are the reasons I don't think it will work. I think it needs to be a musical and therefore a stage musical. And I really want to do this and think I kind of know how. So please think about this. And then there was a very discouraging year that followed where it looked as if that was not going to happen and then maybe they would pursue it on parallel tracks. And basically when I left the office, Mark gave me a folder of all the movies that Universal had ever produced to see if there was anything else in there that I might like doing as a musical. And then I started to despair and I started to make lists of other villains that might maybe make the center of a musical and there was Iago and there was the Wicked Queen from Snow White and everything. And none of them really seemed to have the same excitement as The Wicked Witch. And then finally I got a call from Mark saying that he had thought about it and he had come to feel that the arguments I made were compelling. And it turned out that in fact Linda Wolverton was not interested in pursuing it in this way. Yay. Yay. And so I started to think about whom I might want to work with. And then very fortuitously, a producer at Disney had whom both Winnie and I knew, Jim Pentecost, who was the producer of Pocahontas, had lunch for us at Disney where the two of us met to talk about this project that Jim pitched. I can't even remember what it was, because all we did was talk about Wicked. But when we had that wonderful lunch, that important lunch, you were in your middle of your despair. You hadn't gotten the right yet? No, because what happened, it was just a weird moment where you brought up, like if only we could think of a good idea to do for an animated... Oh, like Wicked. Like Wicked. And I was like, oh my God, you know that book? And then I heard the tale of, you know, that you had not been able to get the rights to that. So I remember very well because then months later, you called me and said, I sit down because I think we... I've gotten the rights so I think you might want to read the book now. Because I had never read the book. I had literally seen the cover of the book and thought it was so arresting that I bought the book. And I too had done a right search. This is weird. This is, you know, we didn't really know each other then. But when I heard that it was being already made and that someone had already started a screenplay, first of all, I didn't have the insight Steven had that it should be a musical on Broadway. I didn't understand that then. I was just looking into it as a screenwriter, actually. When I heard they already had a screenwriter, they already started. I was so depressed I didn't read the book. But a weird little-known fact, and it's just funny, is the book, which the original novel had this green girl with her dark hat, very, very interesting-looking girl with a slightly green face, but it was half-hidden on the cover. And I had that on my bookshelf in my workroom for a long time. It sort of peered out at me. And, you know, literally later I started to think, wow, that's kind of interesting that I had it right prominently displayed on my bookshelf for like two years before I started working on it. Stranger than truth. So now it was 1998, we think, right? Yes. Towards the end of 1998. And we had gotten the go-ahead. And I had met with Gregory Maguire because he had to give his blessing and drove up to where he was staying in Connecticut and walked around with him and told him sort of what my thoughts were. And he did give his blessing. And then we began. And we started by trying to do an outline of the show. What would the basic structure be? And I think I had done something. Well, he had written a preliminary outline. But also, I think it bears mentioning, it's very important, you had a vision from the beginning of the way you wanted the show to begin. The curtain at the end of the first act. And the very end. He had a very strong vision. He'd been thinking about this for a while and is incredibly smart. So what he pitched to me originally was what we have, which is the show would begin with this celebration that is not unlike Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, but it's not that, but it is like that because it's happening in Oz and they're celebrating the death of a witch. The end of the first act is going to be this moment when she first flies on her broomstick. I believe that's what you said. And then the end of the show, although it's changed from how we both originally started to envision it, but the end of the show, I think you said to me immediately, can we say spoilers in here?  It's ambiguous. Obviously in the movie she dies. It's ambiguous in Gregory's book. So he was very clear, this was his vision. So I was really on board with that and was feeling it too. And then, so in other words, we had those three very key structural tent poles that we then started outlining from. Yeah. And there were things, and Winnie, it's so great that she did this. So she brought the first outline that then we did together, which is now dated November of 99. So it took about a year, really just to get to this because the book had so much plot that it was really difficult to figure out what to use and what not to use and what to change and so on. But what I was just glancing at this as we were waiting to begin, and what was really interesting is that even though everything changed, kind of those three things never changed. The specifics of how they were executed and who was involved and who wasn't changed. But that was always the structure, that it began with the celebration of the witch's death, that it then flashed back, that at the end of the show you would come back to that same celebration but see it in a completely different way and learn that a lot of what you thought was true was actually a masquerade and a charade and that there was a lot of stuff going on that you didn't know about and that the end of the first act would be the witch coming into her power and flying for the first time. And there were a couple of other things that we knew. Well, the roommate's thing. Yes. Well, that was in Gregory's book. That was something that spoke to both of us right away, was that the bad witch, the wicked witch and Glenda the good witch had been reluctant roommates at college. And in the book, and we just thought that was hilarious and brilliant. The other thing I should say that I think was really key because it was something that I had not thought of before. When I first envisioned the show before I started talking to Winnie about it, I had seen it as a show kind of like Funny Girl in that there would be one main character and she would drive through the show and that's who you would follow. And then when I started talking with Winnie about it, Winnie had the insight of how important that the relationship was more significant than this one character's journey and that it was more like a Rodgers and Hammerstein show where you had to balance two major characters and the journey they would take together and how their relationship would change would be the center of the show. And then the other thing that I thought was really, you said it at our very first meeting and I never forgot was that you felt it was very important that Elphaba the wicked witch actually do something that was wicked. That it not be that she was just this misunderstood good girl and the others were bad and you simply flipped who was black and who was white but that we wanted it to be very nuanced and so then we looked for an incident, a thing that she would do that was actually wicked and that's where the idea of a relationship between Glinda and Fiero, which is not in the book, they don't have a relationship in the novel and that's where that came from and that therefore Elphaba knowing about that relationship but taking the guy anyway was a betrayal of her best friend. I wanted her to have behaved badly in some ways and obviously we've all behaved badly. Some more badly than others I guess but in other words we've all done things that we know weren't what another person wanted us to do but we couldn't help ourselves or we felt that it was more true, that whole thing about it's more true to lie in a certain moment than it is to... But anyway, yeah. And then I think just to say that something we've said publicly a lot but I'll just say it since we're on the subject is that then another element of the Glinda part rising up had to do with Kristen and from the very beginning when we were very first writing it Steven had said to me, there's this girl named Kristen Chenoweth and I was living in LA and I wasn't really a part of the New York theater scene nor am I still really but I did not really... I knew who Kristen was but I'd never really seen her on stage I don't think. I knew she'd wanted Tony but I didn't really know her. Well when Steven was able to get her to come to an early reading that we did I was so blown away by her enormous gifts that I determined... I mean, we both did I don't mean to say use the I we both felt very strongly it should be her now that's like saying that you sort of buy a Ferrari but you just take it down the driveway and then just bring it back you know, if you have a Ferrari you have to take it for a spin and so then it became very important how is her part gonna arc? What's in it for her? You know, flat out you know, here's a rising star just why does she want to do our part? That's something you know people don't always talk about that but actually Martha Levy I think referred to that last night I was very taken with that moment in her conversation I'm always thinking about that stuff I don't know if that is something that people want to talk about why would an actor want to and motivating and a truly and I don't just mean a star but somebody who's really got a lot going on in that department making sure that you're showing them off not the other way around i.e. they're gonna come in do my show and make it work no, no, no the thinking would need to be I'm gonna write a part that so shows them off and so shows all their colors that they're going to not be able to resist to play it that's more the thinking that I like to be in and then just quickly and then we can start answering questions etc so the way we developed the show then was we once we had an outline that we felt we had gone over and over and over again and now we're starting to go around in circles a little bit and therefore it was time to move forward then we started to write and Winnie for me as a as a songwriter I always like it if the book writer does goes first and gives me a few scenes so I understand the tone and how the characters speak and so on and so forth and Winnie wrote the first couple of scenes and particularly I remember when I got the first draft of the opening from you and there were all these strange words that we came to call Ozisms and that Winnie was inventing a language in a way a way of talking to help separate Oz from from our world and so that was very influential on me I thought well then I have to write lyrics that way too and anyway eventually we got ourselves to a first act and we were working with Mark Platt who became producer of the show and we would keep running things by him and discussing things with him and then finally it got to a point where we felt we needed to hear it read and that was probably about another year down the line I would say and remember the first time we heard it read we only had Act 1 we had an Act 1 that was as long as now and I remember again we had started to go around and around in circles with it and we finally thought we have to hear this read and Mark was very resistant to that idea and he was sort of terrified and I had a conversation about it and so finally I called Mark and I said so we're going to do this reading and if you want to be the producer and pay for it great if not we're doing it you're cordially invited but we're doing it so then of course he said oh well then of course we'll put it together for you and we just invited some actor friends of ours this wasn't the Kristen reading it's just Act 1 it's two hours long or two and a half hours long and I just want to say for all of us that was so key what Steven was he invited I guess you invited about 20 would you say 40? no less than that I think it was less than 20 I think it was about 12 sort of smart friends people he felt were very his smartest friends and I think I had like two friends there I have a lot of friends but I was scared but what he did which was so amazing to me because I've never done something like this before because in other words my thinking and this is why I want to share this with you would be I have to wait till it's done done right but what this did was it catapulted us into a lot more knowledge and into really understanding what we had and what we didn't have yet so after the reading was over this is just the first act he and I sat in the middle of the room me against my will and Steven willingly and just asked people Steven just asked people questions like what didn't you get where did you lose interest and we took notes and that's a real ballsy obviously move but if you can do that with enough privacy so that you don't so that you're not talking to people who are just totally going to lead you astray that you're talking to some trusted people who you think have good taste that can be so that was just galvanizing for us it sort of becomes like a bell curve like there are always outliers who tell you things that are not particularly useful or have their own sort of odd point of view someone just hates monkeys I had someone like that a very very close personal friend who was just like oh those monkeys get rid of them and there was no way we were going to do that but in the middle things start to emerge and one of the people who was there I remember said to me whenever you have those two girls on particularly when they're together in action you're in gold and every other time you're in trouble and so we wrote this little thing that said it's the girls stupid that was our mantra we would show it to each other as we were working and then the other thing that we really learned was that people brought in with them the movie they did not bring Gregory's book even if they'd read the book they didn't really care if we changed it or what we did they did not bring the original Wizard of Oz series even if they had a prized collection of them at home and had read all 170 of them but they all brought the movie and what we realized was we could not contradict the movie any place we had gone too far away the show fell apart so we realized two major things we had to focus on the relationship between the girls and that we had to treat the movie as if it was a documentary that's what really happened that's what really happened just to add to that when you think about that it has to do with the whole idea if you do improv and don't deny someone else's reality if anyone hears the improv person because the audience doesn't like to have their reality denied in other words if you're in an improv and you come out and you start to crack eggs and pretend that you're flipping eggs and somebody says you know why are you whipping a horse and it's been so clear that you were just making eggs it's very unpleasant for the audience and they just zone out it's like well if you're gonna do shit like that why should I pay attention so in other words so it doesn't just apply to the Wizard of Oz although it does so much because this is such a treasured this is a movie that is our national treasure it's a national masterpiece it's our great movie and it's a movie that really spoke to our generation me and Stevens although I think it does continue to speak to generations but we grew up watching this movie at prized moments at home on little TVs that only had five channels it's like it was a very important event to watch the movie together as a family or to be terrified by it or whatever so we did have to be very we brought our own feelings of respect and admiration and adoration I will say for the movie but we also brought that thing that he's just described but all of that I believe is something that speaks to whatever you might be writing in terms of understanding not denying what you care about or what matters to you because often what matters to you is really what matters universally when you're tapping into something that you really care about very very often that's when you're really speaking to a bigger group if you know what I mean Steven and Winnie I'd like to pick up the story it's getting closer to Broadway I know that you insisted that the show open out of town not on Broadway and the production was in San Francisco and I believe you also insisted that after it closed in San Francisco you would have a certain amount of time why did you decide what did you think you needed that was something that I actually we wanted to do a regional production and our director I actually wanted to do a workshop and then regional production and then talk about going out of town and our director Joe Mantello felt that for his purposes to some extent a workshop but particularly a regional production was not valuable because he felt that he needed to get the world and the production and that to just have sort of limited resources was not helpful to him in figuring out how to put the show on the stage so he wanted to start right away with an out of town production and I said to the producers that I would only agree to that if it was not a typical situation where you open out of town and then you kind of shut down for a week while you're transferring to New York and then you go because what I had learned in my experience was you can't actually do really major structural work while the show is running I know in the old days they seem to change shows out of town extensively all the time but for whatever reasons now I've just found you can't do it Well we made some changes out of town You can make limited changes within scenes You can do it's not really cosmetic work it's important work but you can't do big changes because by the time something is then you have to stage it and then it has to be orchestrated and then the computer has to like figure out how to move the set and three weeks have gone by and you can't do it so I just said to the producers if you're going to do this we must close down for I think it was three months I think we had we definitely had July and August because it started at the end of August the rehearsal I think it was three months that we said you have to close the show and let us write and then go back into rehearsal and otherwise we won't do it and so the producers agreed and it cost them one million dollars for that three months because they had to keep everybody on retainer on retainer but it did make the show they will tell you that that was the best million dollars they spent but the point being they were not cavalier about it it was a decision can you mention one thing that you learned from that San Francisco production? well yes we've learned a lot of things from the San Francisco production the major one of the major things that we worked on in the intervening three months was that the character of Elphaba and her relationship with Glinda had gone out of balance that Glinda had to some extent taken over the show and there were aspects of the Elphaba character that were not coming through and so we her intelligence her rebelliousness, her wit and so we spent most of that time working on that character writing new lines for her writing new things for her to sing trying to kick that character back up into balance is that when we wrote the new no no no no no but I did a lot of intro stuff for her that she was not singing it was all how she started out it was virtually that it was very little it was all act one stuff I wrote stuff for her in act two like intros and songs and things to clarify like the intro to for good oh yeah a lot of it had to do with how she started off like getting her off to the right start at least for me, book wise and it had to do with that but then a huge thing that happened in San Francisco was the funeral scene because we had well that was big yeah it's right here so it had to do with how we told our story and we had a huge funeral scene for the goat who was presumed dead and a funeral is stately and long usually so was the scene and it came in the part of the first act where things were starting to get exhausting anyway because we did a long first act and it was before they went to the Emerald City which in a way everyone's waiting for and it was just endless but it's hard to know at the time and of course this is something you all deal with it's just so hard to understand at the time that you don't need something yeah well one of the things that happened was we kept going back to our storyboards and I remember that there were these two cards there was an event that happened with Moribel coming to Elphaba and then there was an event where she came to her again and said you're in the Emerald City and we looked at her and we were like that's the same card there's something is wrong here so we can't be doing both of these you take two things that's why outlining can be so important especially in a musical but really in any part of life if you do you understand what you just said like if you're seeing these two things and it's basically a very similar event it's the same beat why aren't they happening together and by the way to some extent then of course it can get too much but to some extent when you take two scenes and make one scene out of them that does the work of all of that well then you have a very dynamic scene because one of the things I personally love is to do that and you can't do that often in your first draft or even in your third draft perhaps when you're teaching yourself the story but in other words when you have a scene where a lot of different things are actually there are a lot of different dynamics actually happening in other words it serves more than one purpose the scene this can be very thrilling you don't want to tip it over into so many things that are happening in one scene that you can barely keep track or something like that but do you agree with this? totally so we wound up deciding that we had to cut this funeral scene there were two little events that happened in it that were easily put into other places and our director was violently opposed to cutting this scene and so was our producer our biggest disagreement we had just a huge huge fight about it and finally after weeks of fighting about this and are saying why do you care so much about this scene? Joe Montello revealed to us that he had this whole plan about Elphaba's costume and when she would wear black that he had worked out with Susan Hilferty and that she the reason she wore black was she showed up at the funeral in her black dress and she had not worn black before that and that's why in the end he really really wanted that scene and Winnie and I just said to him I'm sorry you cannot have a ten page scene a ten minute scene to get the leading character into a black costume no one cares no one is ever going to wonder why she's wearing black put her in black the scene before or something or the scene after but you can't have it and so we finally but boy that was a struggle it's a version of a first draft I mean it's a version of this first draft I think we'll take some questions there's a microphone in the center aisle if you line up right in front of the microphone it's right behind you right behind the center aisle and let's I guess make them as brief as possible yeah I got when did you write Popularity Elphaba in which was that like right early there was always a scene from the first of the girls becoming the the incident where where Glinda starts to feel that she's wronged Elphaba and they become friends and giving Elphaba the hat that's that was in this original outline and so we I think in discussions with Mark Platt Winnie had the idea or Mark had the idea that there should be this sequence that's we called it the Emma sequence after the Jane Austen book where the popular girl makes over the the unpopular girl and so that seemed like a really funny idea and a really good idea for their relationship and so pretty early on I would say like about the sixth or seventh song that I wrote was popular and it really never changed a lot of songs get rewritten or whatever but that really never got rewritten and I remember that I was so happy about the song that I did something that I almost never do which is I sent the lyrics to Mark Platt before when I was going to get to together with him next and play it for him and he read the lyrics and called me and had lots and lots of issues and questions and I don't know about this and I said Mark this is you have to trust me on this this one's going to work what did happen to the song was that when talking about Kristen when they staged it she basically invented a section about teaching how to flip her hair and everything there was a little teeny bit of training that we had written into the song and then it got expanded into this huge, hilarious sequence that Kristen more or less invented hi quick question when you shut down after San Francisco for the three months for the rewrites and people were on retainer did that mean you were able to use them at all could you workshop for yourself with actors or with it was just back to the computer it never really occurred to them now they all went on vacation we just we just we just worked now that you mention it that probably would have been a good idea so you kind of retained them just to retain them well there were certain equity and other things where you had to so essentially though from the San Francisco stage draft to the Broadway stage draft was all on paper until you got it up for rehearsals and then when we got into rehearsal for Broadway we certainly was a change in things every day it's not like but we weren't doing what he was terming the big structural rethinking at that point we've been done in the and this is where it was such a great plan because honestly things were calmer when it was just the two of us working in his studio you know you need a bit of as you all know you need a bit of calm and you're also not being told why technically you this is why you can't change things out of town because you come up with an idea and they're like well we can't make the costume change the set and we can't there are all these reasons that you're stuck with this production that's now screwing up your play and so once you shut the production down then you do these things and then they rethink the production so that was the advantage of being able to do it on paper and how long was the rehearsal period for each of those productions do you remember? I think it was the New York one again I think it was three. It was five weeks the first time the normal rehearsal period and then endless tech and then I think when we went back after the time off it was another three weeks in the rehearsal room yes that sounds right next you talked a little bit about this but I was wondering how because most musicals are when you have the two and it's not just the one character that you're following through most musicals are boy girl centric can you talk a little bit about having both of the leads be female well that was yes an interesting thing about this is six years after the show opened or something this terrific woman named Stacy Wolfe wrote a thing for her college a treatise about Wicked saying that it was a queer version of Rogers and Hammerstein which had never occurred to us and then we just loved this because it was true it was very insightful we basically did a Rogers and Hammerstein relationship like King and I with a French and in the way that the King and I relationship is basically sexless in that it's a love story but it's not a romantic love story that's what this was but we were unaware that that's what we were doing while we were doing it it's more like it just happened and then as it was happening there were other like we were describing we were seeing the feedback that the two women on stage that was the heart of the musical that was the beating heart of the musical we were seeing that it's not like I sat down conceptually going I will write a musical with two women leads that's my goal in life I'm not saying that's a bad goal but that wasn't how it happened it occurred organically seeing what we were seeing and going look at them together it's like it's so fun or it's so touching or whatever it was did you ever think that maybe Glinda was there a moment maybe where like did he follow Glinda did that ever happen did he stop writing Glinda that didn't happen for a while but did you ever consider maybe we're doing this because it's right and what was but you know that's not a bad question because you can be writing something and suddenly say oh I was doing this show but actually that one's more interesting but the the thing that excited me about this show and excited I think Winnie also from the get go was the brilliant genius idea that Gregory had that he was going to take this quintessential villain someone who doesn't even have a name in the original is referred to only by the attribute that she is wicked and make her the center the protagonist of this piece that was a stroke of genius so that was always going to remain the center we have time for two more questions something that's been coming up a bit this weekend and something that I've begun to experience myself as an emerging writer is very often as writers how in some ways how little control we have over our show how the show's developed that we're always at the mercy of can we get the rights and how long do we have to wait for the lawyers negotiator what director can we get and I guess any thoughts on maintaining calm what I'll just term for better word the fog of war the fog and the confusion all the different things I would challenge your assertion about how little control we have over our show I thought you were actually referring to something else which is that the show reveals itself to us sometimes the show controls us which is sort of what Winnie is saying but we as writers it's our show and it's we like to we'll take collaboration ideas and input and help from anywhere we can get it but in the end it's our show and so I think that's what you have to maintain in the fog of war if you're having a fight about the scene that the authors have decided the scene has to go that scene went in the end we said we're the authors and that scene is out of the show the end and that was a huge fight but that's what happened and we were right because we knew we were right that's the point we knew we were right but also I just want to say quickly that you've mentioned getting rights as one of your little nightmares and sometimes it's best if you're having a nightmarish time to stick to things where you don't have to get rights I would encourage that you just happen to mention it but I would say that you don't want to when you are starting out at any age you don't want to have to worry about something like that that's very daunting if it's your heart's passion and you must do it then of course you're going to do it you're going to follow that but you want to go easy on that kind of thing because the truth is you want to be self-generating and that will maybe give you more power can we make the last two very brief we have to vacate this room when you were fighting for the rights of the show what argument did you make that this book needed to be on the stage instead of on the screen I said a few things Mark we all know what Oz looks like and if it doesn't look like Oz in the movie the audience is not going to go for it and you can but on the stage it can be much more stylized secondly I said you've got a leading character with a lot of stuff going on underneath there's a lot of subtext there's a lot that she's not saying how are you going to do that in a movie even with a close up she's going to have a big prosthetic nose she's going to be green how are you going to do that what you need her to do is be able to soliloquize and you can't really do that except with kind of really bad voice over so you need her to sing to give voice to these things going on inside her and that's weird in a movie he needs to start on stage and ultimately he bought those arguments did Gregory Maguire have any involvement past giving his blessing and how did he respond to the eventual production he'd be happy he was wonderful about it I remember the first time he saw the show it was like our fifth reading and we'd been at it for a long time I was so nervous about Gregory coming and the elevator on the way up to the rehearsal room we were doing the reading and I was like we've changed a lot but what he said what he said was I took the Wizard of Oz and I did with it what I wanted and I feel like now you're taking what I did and you're doing with it what you wanted he had some suggestions and some thoughts a couple of which were very helpful to us and we assimilated but he never said I need to do my book in this way well here's to the second decade of working let me actually I just want to finish a comment because I think it's really appropriate because it has to do with adaptation I propose that I think it's very important if you're adapting somebody else's work that you have the right to do what you feel and in fact if the person says you can adapt my novel but I have to approve your first draft or your this or that do not do it turn it down it's not a good idea ok now you can thank us


Please help you guys, welcome back to another one. If you are new to the channel, I am Gold Pony, I do new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the new 2021 Hyundai Venue, courtesy of Jackie Umbalvo Hyundai in York PA for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so what happened to Venue today because it is reasonably priced, there are plenty of changes for the 2021 model year. Of course, Hyundai does give you America's best warranty as well, being five years, 60,000 mile bumper to bumper, 10 year, 100,000 miles on the powertrain. And you actually get three years of complimentary maintenance as well. Hyundai just started doing that this year as well. So plenty of reasons to take a look at this one. So what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so there will be a few different term levels for the 2021 Venue. First one being the SE starting at $18,750. Then there is the SEL, which is the one we have today, starting at $19,250. And lastly, the Denim starting at $22,050. And so regardless of trim level that you go with, power plan is actually going to be the same on this one. Powering this little beast is going to be a 1.6 liter naturally aspirated inline four cylinder, putting out 121 horsepower at 6,300 RPM, 113 pound feet of torque available at 4,500 RPM. Power sent to the front wheels only. And that power is sent to the ground through an IVT no manual option this year, just that continuously or intelligent variable transmission. Zero to 60 comes in at approximately 8.6 seconds with MPG numbers coming in at 30 in the city, 33 on the highway taking regular unleaded fuel. And so before we do any kind of acceleration test here in the venue, I did want to mention there are actually some drive modes on this one. They will include normal sport and snow, adjusting things like the throttle response, steering sensitivity. And if you were curious about that snow mode, since this is a front wheel drive vehicle that is important. So with the snow mode, it actually sends torque between the front wheels, depending on which wheel has the most traction. This is kind of cool. And so a lot of times with other manufacturers, when they do offer a snow mode, it'll simply just decrease the throttle response and limit the RPMs. But to have the system actually sent torque to the wheel with the most traction, that is definitely a pretty advanced, pretty nice snow mode in the venue. I will say that, but having now got all of that out of the way, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway here and let's see how quickly we can get this new 2021 venue up to speed. All right, a little bit of a rolling start, but let's get it. A little bit of slipping. Kind of loud, not the quickest thing in the world, but dang, I was kind of loud. I won't say that, but it should suffice with merging onto the highway, stuff like that. It's definitely not the quickest thing in the world. And I think you guys probably knew that off the bat with that zero to 60 time I rambled off at the beginning of the video, but it'll do the trick. It should do the trick. It is a city car more or less. So if you're planning on doing mostly city driving, it's gonna be just five anyways. To go along with that acceleration, as always, braking is equally important. And so this one may surprise you, maybe not for the SE trim, because with the SE trim, you actually get front disc rear drum brakes. However, if you go with the SEL like we have today where the denim, you will get four wheel disc brakes and get this 60 to zero stopping distance comes in at 114 feet. That is dang impressive. Let me tell you why. Nissan Kix comes in at 126 feet. Toyota CHR comes in at 119 feet. Usually with larger SUVs, they a lot of times will come in at 130s. So 114 feet, that's dang impressive. Like I said, braking feels perfectly fine. But really, when it comes to stopping power in the venue, it's excellent. I will say that. Then touching on suspension and handling, upfront you're gonna get an independent, you may fear some front suspension in the back, torsion beam rear axle. And to go along with that twin tube gas pressure eye shock absorbers as far as the ride quality goes, you do feel a little bit more of the road than I'm probably used to. But this is a smaller SUV. So I guess that's pretty much to be expected. When it comes to handling, it's actually pretty darn good. It's kind of fun to throw around the back roads here. I gotta say, definitely a fun little car to drive when it comes to handling. I will say that. When it comes to cabin noise, not a whole lot of exterior noises coming into the cabin minus the engine noise. That is kind of pronounced in the venue. I will say that. But other than that, I kind of like engine noise. It's just my personal preference there. But other than that, it's perfectly fine. But touching on visibility, I can see perfectly fine out the back. And one of the better ones really in its segment, I'll even say with visibility, because of its boxier shape really, you can see perfectly fine out the back. Absolutely not gonna have any issues there. But that about rounds out the performance segment of this review, you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of this brand new 2021 Hyundai Venue. All right, so here she is, you guys. The new 2021 Hyundai Venue. Actually a very good looking small SUV in my opinion. That's just my personal preference. But to the sides, projector headlights do come standard on the venue. They do, of course, come with the automatic feature meaning when it starts to get dark out at night, they will turn on automatically for you there. LED daytime running lights actually coming standard with just the denim trim level. If you wanted those LEDs, LED headlights then are gonna be optional on the SEL that we have today and the denim, but they do not come standard on either of those trim levels, but they are available. If you wanted them black front grill is going to come with the SE. However, with the SEL and up, you will find a chrome front grill that we have here today.  That is gonna be the color contrast. That is gonna come with that trim level specifically. But so then making our way to the side of this one, roof rails do come standard. Body colored power adjustable side mirrors, standard as well.  And so that's yet another new change for the 2021 venue being previously that bottom trim would have gotten steel wheels with covers. However, all trims now get alloy wheels for the 2021 venue. That might have been one reason if I were looking for a base trim level, I would go with the 2021 over the 2020 personally. And I do also like on this venue how they use the turd signal light indicators on the actual front fenders, as opposed to the side mirrors. That's yet another distinctive difference between just about every other SUV out there these days. So I thought that was pretty cool too. But so then making our way to the back of this one, we'll find a gloss black shark fin antenna up top, just below that rear spoiler, just below that rear window wiper. When it comes to those tail lights, there will be LED tail lights on the denim trim level only that is gonna be available as an option for the SEL. Do love the tail light design on the venue. I gotta be honest, I don't know what it reminds me of, maybe like a British look, but definitely a very cold tail light design to the venue. But just underneath of it all, of course you do have a single exhaust outlet carefully tucked away. So I do believe you guys know what we have to do next, as always here is that exhaust clip. It's up and now since we are around back of the venue, when it comes to opening that rear lift gate, it is a manual lift gate for all trim levels. So simply just lift up under date there and you can open that one up there. Once opened up cargo space comes in at 18.7 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, there actually is a 60-40 split, meaning the rear seats do fold down, bumping that up to 31.9 cubic feet. So decent amount of space I guess you could say for what the venue is. Then making our way to the rear leg room, that comes in at 34.3 inches. So for reference, I'm in even six feet tall. This is how much space I had in the back there. And if anybody right now is looking at that center area with the cup holders, that is gonna be available as an option for the venue. It is easily removable if you did not want that option or you don't have to get it to start with even, but it is there and it is available if you wanted it to start with. So then making our way to the front seats, cloth seating coming with the S-E and S-E-L trim levels. You will get a cloth leatherette combination seating if you were to go with the denim trim level then.  And you will get manually adjustable seating for every single trim level. But overall I will say it's one of the first things I said to myself when I hopped in the venue, although their seating specs don't seem all that impressive, the seats actually are very comfortable. It's bolstered very well on the sides there and you actually kind of do sink into them. So they're plenty comfortable seats, I will say that. Let me take a look at the steering wheel. It is leather wrapped for the S-E-L and denim trim levels. Otherwise you're gonna get that urethane steering wheel if you were to go with the S-E. Then making our way to the startup, let me start by showing you guys the key here. You do have your Hyundai logo on the one side and when you flip it around lock unlock and that panic button of course, but it is a turnkey ignition actually for the S-E and S-E-L trims. You will get a push button start with the denim. That push button start is gonna be again optional on the S-E-L but we actually do have the turnkey ignition so I'm just gonna simply put my phone in the break and turn the key here. And so if it then once started up when it comes to those gauges, I do like how they are illuminated in a cool white bluish type of hue. You do have your tachometer on your left speedometer is on your right. There is a small digital display front and center which can be controlled by using the steering wheel mounts and controls on the right side there.  There's your tire pressure information for each individual tire as well. A tension level monitor, that is pretty cool. It's a safety feature in itself there. You can actually display a digital speedometer up there as well if you want. There's your average miles per gallon. The list really goes on. So really what I'm getting at is quite a bit of information there in that digital gauge section but then touching on overall interior quality if you wanted a power sunroof that is going to be available for the SEL trim level through a premium package. And so all of these things I keep saying available on the SEL is an option. It basically all comes with that premium package which goes for $2,350.  Automatic climate control is going to come standard on the SEL and denim trims meaning you set a temperature and it is going to adjust itself until it actually gets to that temperature. And that's going to be displayed in this cool looking display just in front of the shifter there. I liked that. I also liked the little storage area found just above the passenger side glove box. Having said that, is the plastic bottom of that storage area wouldn't have minded if there was a rubberized finish there so things didn't slide around but still liked that the storage area is there.  Also just behind the shifter that is actually where you're going to find that drive mode button. I was telling you guys about earlier you have a couple cup holders and of course a little bit of storage within that center arm rest there as well but overall kind of basic when it comes to interior quality very practical there very to the point so I don't mind it for that reason. But then taking a look at the tech display front and center you actually get an eight inch color touch screen display for every single trim level. That's pretty cool.  So I liked that but it actually gets better with the tech and Hyundai always does it right when it comes to tech. I will say that Bluetooth and audio streaming of course wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay and this one was interesting to me so the wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay does come standard even on the base trim level of the venue and this is interesting because a lot of Hyundai's more expensive vehicles let's say the Hyundai Sonata doesn't get wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay so I don't know I found that interesting but still I love that the venue has that and so much better than the cables flying around everywhere but factory navigation system is going to come with the denim and of course you can check out your radio information up there as well and by the way when it comes to the sound system you will find four speakers with the SE then six speakers if you go with the SE L or denim trim level. So having said that I do believe you guys know what we have to do next let's go ahead and turn on the radio so we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one. I know you know each other and it's fine clarity is actually pretty good actually for a six speaker sound system not the most based in the world but you can pretty much expect that out of six speakers but clarity was actually more than amused to for a six speaker sound system at least I will say that but last thing I wanted to mention on that tech display at least is when you do put the venue in reverse you of course will find a rear view camera for every trim level across the board letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead us into safety and so to start on the venue IIHS top safety pick which is quite remarkable considering the size of the venue but we'll say that front side side curtain airbags of course in the back you're going to have latch AKA lower anchors until there's your children for the rear car seats rear child door locks back there as well tire pressure monitoring system that's all pretty much the basic stuff where the venue really gets good is the advanced standard safety features including forward collision avoidance assist with pedestrian detection lane keep assist which is quite brilliant on Hyundai models I will say that every time I drive a Hyundai the lane keep assist system always goes above and beyond like it's a really good system I will say that compared to other manufacturers that I've tested driver attention warning like I was mentioning to you guys if you wanted a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert simply go with the SEL or denim trim levels it will come standard on both of those trims and of course we do have that today it's going to let you know if somebody's in your blind spot and it's going to flash you in yellow essentially see an old coup turning into anybody but overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the venue excellent standard safety really for the price point that this thing is at I love that Android Auto Apple CarPlay is wireless it's really one of the biggest features for me personally being a car and a tech guy good interior quality for this segment again it's pretty basic but compared to some of the other cars in this segment though it's really better than them I will say that and of course contributing to its overall great value again you have the best warranty out there you have three years of free maintenance we don't have to pay anything for oil changes filter changes things like that perhaps my only constructive criticism from this price point I guess you could say it's a little bit underpowered I will say that so wouldn't have minded if Hyundai added maybe a turbo charge setup keeping this engine maybe on the bottom trim levels to save on that price point but maybe offering a higher trim level with an optional turbo charged engine maybe but that's my constructive criticism overall extremely good value and that is about it for this review you guys thank you so much for watching prefer to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen there if you like be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews that is what we do here on this channel after all do appreciate you guys watching more than you know when I will see you guys all in the next video stay gold


Hey everyone, welcome to the Nintendo Prime Studio Tour. And I wanna thank a special sponsor of this video, FlexiSpot, as you're gonna see in a moment, they actually provided something very important to the setup here. But before we do that, let's just take a look around.  It doesn't really mean much. There's gonna be something that goes there someday, but we're just kinda keeping things, I don't know, open to new ideas. Over here, you'll see our other set. We just used this for an unboxing. It's got the Nintendo Prime neon sign, the Game Boy thing as well. And honestly, we just used this.  We're just waiting on a new wireless microphone setup so it can actually sound really good over here. We wanna keep the sound quality in our videos as good as we can. If you watch the unboxing video, you'll know it really wasn't that great. And that's why we're not using this set that much right now. But anyways, as we walk on over to the other part of the studio, you see it, we got a table over here. This just has some random accessories, some extra lights right now. It's got the Switch OLED that we're giving away. Nice reminder that we are giving away. A's, L, the tears of the kingdom of Nintendo Switch OLED. So that's pretty cool. We're also giving away a collector's edition of pin. I don't know, a bunch of stuff that's over there. And we have like our label and some quick tools, just things that I use on the daily that I want quick access to. And then we have our shelf system over there. On the top row, we just have accessories for our microphones, extra stands, extra cables, some cable run things because we use cable run things randomly and our batteries that we use for our audio equipment. On our next shelf here in the corner, this is just some random bits and bobbles. We have some cable management stuff there. We have cleaning supplies as well and a little bit of glue and stuff. You gotta, things get broken around here. So sometimes we gotta glue some stuff together. On the next shelf, this is sort of where we keep, well, a little collection of games and then you'll see a couple extra lenses for our camera. And then on the left is drink packages. So if I wanna get a quick boost, I can just throw those in a water bottle quick. And then on our next shelf is, again, more cleaning supplies. We also have a 4K capture card there that we currently can't use, some extra tripods and some extra accessories for the roadcaster. And then the very bottom shelf, this is just like shipping stuff. So like when we ship away giveaways and stuff or have to ship things back to advertisers, we got some stuff down there for that, labels and tape. And then we got more cable runs. And then we just got some equipment sliders because we don't wanna ruin the floor in here. So if we have to ever move anything heavy, we'll just get the sliders out for that. So as we move on to that, we got a whiteboard. This whiteboard is where I pretty much keep things organized. So the to-do is typically anything that I'm required to do, contractually. You'll see it. I got a number of sponsored stuff there to handle. You'll see video ideas. Right now, there's only one left on the board because I've used up a lot of them. This is where I also put on, everyone is gonna be on future podcast episodes, any meetings I have and then any sponsorships that I'm already done with and I'm just awaiting payment. So I remember to pester those people for payments and figure out when that's coming. And then if we come over here, we have the battle station. This is where we do all the magic for the most part after we're done recording. So this is where our Mac Studio runs into a 49-inch ultra-wide Samsung Odyssey QLED display. It's actually a 1440p, but it only runs at 1080p, just some Apple shenanigans there for now. But yep, you see everything we have here. We got our Amazon Alexa there on the left. That's just so I can play some quick music at a glance and stuff like that. Check on a few things. Check the security cameras in the house without having to log in on a website or anything. And yeah, so where we do all the video editing and all the managing of pretty much everything. This is not the flexi-spot desk to point out because we needed that for something else. And we're gonna get over to our next set here. So this is where we do pretty much all the recording and live streams. We have our high-quality microphones here, the Electrovoice RE20s. I'll put links to some of this equipment down in the description if you're interested in. The Rodecaster Pro 2, we got a Stream Deck. XL here, which is where we do all our scene changes, some of our music. You get some sound effects here. You can see a little bit on the labels. We will get a shot of that later to show you guys how we labeled the Rodecaster. Couple laptops here, nothing special, except this laptop can actually run everything barely if the main computer goes down, which the main computer's actually sitting right over here on set. And that is the Mac Studio. It is the fully upgraded model that's almost maxed out on everything but storage. It only has two terabytes of storage with a USB hub connected to it. And the reason it's over here is pretty much everything we need with the studio is over here, except for the monitor. So it just made sense to put the computer over here instead of over at the editing bay. And then we have our camera here, which is the Lumix G9. This is what we record most of our on-camera stuff with. And yeah, well we're not doing that, using that camera for this because we need to show off the Flexi-Spot Desk. This is it right here. This is the Flexi-Spot Pro Plus Standing Desk E7.  So right now this is in the sitting position, which you see here in some of my live streams, but also it does other things. Like if we press this button here, it will go into a standing position that I've actually set using the memory here, with your standard arrows up and down. So let's keep going to where we like to stand. So if I was in the middle of a live stream, it might look something like this. Hey everyone, welcome to Nintendo Prime. Are you ready to have a great time? And then over here we would just do our thing. This can keep me active, keep me moving during a stream or during a video shoot. So I really like having this option, not something we always use. As you see, we have a dual monitor setup. So if we're playing a game, typically we gotta go down because we need both monitors. But if I'm not and I only need the one monitor, it is nice to kind of stand up and be free, burn some extra calories and just try to be healthy. And you guys notice, I need to lose some weight, right? So it's nice to be on a bit of a health kick here. So thank you so much for Flexi-Spot for this. It is one of the best standing desks that I've ever experienced. And it can hold up to 355 pounds. Man, that's a lot. And man, it's super stable. Like look at this. I'm really reefing on it to get it to wobble at all. So this is, honestly, thank you so much, Flexi-Spot. This is awesome. There are links down in the description if you would like to get your hands on one of these. So the Flexi-Spot comes with a 30 day risk-free return policy and a 15 year warranty. And I truly recommend that you give it a try. And remember, this is the best standing desk that I've ever used. And you can just go directly to Flexi-Spot E7, which is the brand of this desk and the brand of the lift that it's using. Go down to the description. Also, Flexi-Spot gave us a few accessories to go along with this. This has been really useful here. We got the metal pegboard here attached to the side of the desk. As you can see, we use one of the shelves that it came with to hold the Nintendo Switch. So that is literally hooked right into the setup to live stream, good to go. Above that, we have some hooks that we're not really using as hooks. I'm just using it to hold another tears of the kingdom. I don't know, we're not gonna talk about that today. It also gave us something that I hang my headphones off of, which you can pretty much hang anything off those of you want, but we chose headphones. And there's a few other accessories that we're not quite using yet. Of course, along the backside, we are using what it came with, a sort of holder of sorts. We just put ABBA things in there like pencils and pens and scissors. So we have quick access anytime that we need it. We just put it on the backside because honestly, the shot of it on the front side on camera doesn't really look that great, but it's still a really useful thing to have. So they also sent us some cable management stuff. So this is the cable management kit. We've used a lot of the things in here. You got zip ties, you got some other straps and some labels you could put in with your straps.  I might not look the greatest, you just glancing at it, but our goal was to keep the cables off the floor because this is a stand desk. So everything is attached on the bottom. And again, this isn't their fault. We just have a lot of cables. I don't know that they realized that we were gonna use this thing for this set. Also one convenient thing they sent us is this power strip here that attaches directly to the desk. You get four power slots on the top of some USB ports as well. We do use this, one of the monitors is plugged into it. And then it's just there for any quick access if we need to plug anything in quick for testing reasons. You know, for unboxing something or we're doing something on live streams and we're like, hey, does this thing work? Let's plug it in quick and find out. So yeah, again, it might not look the cleanest in the world. That's not FlexiSpot's problem. We have way too many things hooked up on this. I don't know that they thought that this was the video they were getting from us, but this is the video they got. Oh, by the way, this FlexiSpot desk has a dual motor as well. So it's one of the cheapest options on the market for a dual motor system. Now, let's put it back down in the sitting position here. We already have a preset. Should note it comes with a USB charging port as well if you want to charge your phone off it, but I have a different setup for that. Comes all the way down.  Didn't have to do any additional adjustments. It's just all ready to go right here. All right, and then obviously, you know, what is a set if there isn't a background behind it? We have an 85 inch. Oh man, this is a mini LED special edition. It's supposed to be a little bit anti-glare. Obviously, you see some glare. The glare is way worse on other TVs. It's on a fully adjustable mount. We could pull that TV out and pretty much smack us in the heads sitting where the chairs are right now. That's how far that TV mount comes out. So we can auto adjust it. We're pretty much any need that we have. We have our PlayStation 5 and our Xbox Series hooked up to it. The switch is not hooked up to it because usually if I'm playing Switch, I'm live streaming it. And then that ends up on the monitor that we have attached to the FlexiSpot desk. Behind that, you see some cheap light panels. We got off Amazon. These are not like your expensive things. I think we spent 20 bucks a pack on these. They were super cheap, but they work really well and they look good on camera. We got our mini fridge down in the corner. You got to see what you see, Eric's sometimes doing podcasts, reaching for to get drinks and stuff like that.  Also, we tend to end up watching a lot of sports in here just to get away from the kids because we can lock the door because this is an in-home studio. And that's going to do it basically for the studio tour here at Nintendo Prime Studios. It's a pretty big room, but who knows, could get expanded into the room next door someday if we end up adding more staff members on. You just have a back storage area which you don't get to see that. It doesn't look good. But that's all right. You know, we got some shelving units. We're still going to order and get that taken care of. Look, guys, this is what it takes to make the magic happen around here, right? And hopefully you'll see us use that other set that you guys saw at the very beginning more often. And you know what? Thank you for tuning in. I am Nathan Roberts from Nintendo Prime. Be sure to check out FlexiSpot and our giveaway down in the pinned comment. And in the description, right? Both, yeah, both Nate. Thank you guys for being here. We'll catch you in that next video.


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