The Johnson-Wax Program, Words at War with Clifton Fadiman. The makers of Johnson's Wax for home and industry in cooperation with the Council on Books in War Time present Words at War, bringing you another dramatization based upon the most significant writing to come out of this great world conflict. And here again where this is usual, to introduce our program is one of the keenest judges of good books in America, Clifton Fadiman. Mr. Fadiman. Good evening. Is this horrible war merely the forerunner of one still more horrible?  Will there never be an end to the senseless slaughter of human beings by other human beings? Tonight we'll examine these questions. I'll tell you more about our program after a word from Jack Costello. You know about this time of the year a good many of you ladies are apt to be involved in a little chore known as fall house cleaning. You clean away dust of summer and prepare for the dirt of winter. May I make a suggestion? Protect the surfaces of your home with wax and that semi-annual house cleaning job will be relatively easy. By services I mean not only floors, furniture and woodwork, but many others like windowsills, Venetian blinds, picture frames, refrigerator, leather articles. What happens is this. The coat of Johnson's paste or liquid wax forms an invisible tough shield that protects these surfaces and keeps the dirt from penetrating. That's why it's easier to clean them, easier to keep them clean. That's why a Johnson waxed home is sanitary, more apt to be a healthful home. And may I add that floors, furniture and woodwork regularly polished with Johnson's wax becomes more beautiful with each application. Mr. Faderman. Our program tonight is suggested by two very important books recently published. One is The Time for Decision by our former Undersecretary of State Sumner Wells. The other is US War Ames by Walter Lipman, the eminent writer on political subjects who is one of the few living Americans who took part in the formulation of our war aims during the First World War. In their books, Mr. Wells and Mr. Lipman ponder the most important subject in the world today. What are we going to do about the peace? Will it be a lasting peace or just another long armistice? Now the views of these two distinguished authorities do not coincide in all particulars, but they are agreed that we must do more than we have done before to ensure the peace, to make certain that this time we mean it when we say it will be the war to end wars. You know we said that once before. Don't you remember that wonderful day in November 1918? Agnes, where are you? Agnes, do you hear that? It's peace, Agnes. Peace, the war is over. It's real this time official, the war is over. That means chicks coming down. Yes, that's right, honey. Come on, the town's going crazy. You never saw anything like it. Let's go and celebrate with the rest of them. Hurry up, Agnes. I'll be ready in a jiffy. Atta girl, oh boy, I just got the yell or something. Hurry up, Agnes. Over there. Who are Charlie and Agnes and what have they got to do with our story? Well, they're not any special Charlie and Agnes. Let's call them average Americans. Average Americans who sent a boy off to the last war, the war to end wars, and who are in that fortunate group of parents who saw their boy come home safe and sound. Where is he, Agnes? I don't see him. The train's just stopping, dear. Oh, yeah, yeah. Maybe you missed it, huh? Maybe you won't be on this one, huh? Oh, he was. This was the train, Charlie. Oh, I don't know. You can't tell about these trains. Maybe you couldn't catch it. Lots of guys getting off down there. I don't see Chick. Oh, hey, Agnes, there's Chick. Hey, Chick. Here we are, Chick. Oh, pardon me. Let me see. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Pardon me. Hey, Chick. Oh, Chick. Chick Boyd. Mom, I... Oh, gosh, I can't believe it. Oh, Chick. You look thin. He looks wonderful. I feel swell. Now, come on. Give me that bag of yours, Chick. Now, what are they to be, son? A big steak? Anything you say, the town's yours. Chick, you're home. Your mom, I'm home for good. Yeah, what do you say, Chick? What do you say? Hungry? How about that steak? Not right now, Dad.  What? Get out of that uniform? Oh, you can't do that, Chick. I got to show you off to the guys at the office. Oh, Charlie. All right, come on now. Let's get out of here, huh? Oh, hey, George. George, look who's here. My boy, Chick. No, no, no. Go ahead and play some more. Must have been terrible for you, Chick, darling. Well, I guess it was. But I guess it was worth it, Betty. I mean, to end this kind of thing. We've ended it now. There won't be war anymore. Really, Chick? Won't there? Betty, how can there be the world to be crazy? Look what's happened. Look what this war did. It brought out poison gas and tanks and planes that can carry a couple of hundred pounds of bombs. Well, the next war would be worse. I don't think the world's that crazy. Well, it couldn't be. Please stop playing. I'm sorry. Ah, this war is something to be forgotten. Let's talk about you and me, Betty. When can we get married? Any time, Chick. And Betty, that's as fine a roast as I ever tasted. Chick, you're certainly married a fine cook. She's not bad, Dad. Oh, that old roast is nothing. Here, Charlie, talk.  Oh, he's just being polite.  But I'm going to help.  You're not going to do a thing. Now I'm going to help you. Come on, Chick. Let's let the women folks argue about the dishes. Here, have a cigar, son. Thanks, Dad. Uh-oh, the baby is awake. The baby is crying. Let's tiptoe in and take a look, eh? Oh, what's the matter, fella? Safety pin sticking you? Just plain fretful. Cut it out, youngster. You haven't seen anything yet? Just wait until you lie in a foxhole all night with the planes diving at you. The grenades exploding all around you. You've got a nice, soft crib now. Wait until you have to sleep in a foot of water with the shells bursting a few yards away. Cut it out, baby. If you think this is tough, just wait until 1941. About this time, a few years after the armistice, Germany was supposed to deliver certain war equipment to the Allies. She didn't do it. She was supposed to turn over coal and other raw materials. She didn't do it. She was supposed to reduce her army to 100,000 men. She didn't do it. She got away with it. Was anybody worried? Live and let live, I say. From now on, let's keep our noses out of their affairs. They'll always be scrapping in Europe. It's none of our business. Right, you are, George. Hey, you're pretty well up on international affairs. Well, yes, I read quite a bit. Yes, sir. Say, you know that little Chevy of mine? Yeah. Well, I took her out to the big hill last Sunday and dog gone if she didn't climb it in high. Well, what do you know?  Did anybody get excited? Yes, sir, gentlemen. Ah, no, not for me. Just coffee. Say, chick, what do you make of this guy Mussolini over there in Italy? Oh, I don't pay much attention, but the confidential business report we get at the offices, he's doing a lot for Italy. He's got the trains running on time over there. Is that so? What do those guys call themselves, anyway? Um, fascists. Fascists, huh? That's a funny word, isn't it? A very funny word, Joe. About as funny as a buzzbomb hitting a children's hospital. About as funny as another guy who started throwing his weight around another section of Europe. What is it, Charlie? Take a look at the picture of this guy who's doing all the talking over in Germany, Agnes. Isn't he a dead ringer for Charlie Chaplin? Let me see, dear. Yes, he is. That mustache is exactly the same as Charlie Chaplin. Ah, the pleasant years. Gertrude Aderle is swimming the channel, Shipwreck Kelly sitting on a flagpole. Oh, that's funny. Gertrude Aderle is swimming the channel, Shipwreck Kelly sitting on a flagpole. Rudolph Valentino. Al Capone, Amos and Andy. The Vagabond Lover. The Kansas City Nighthawks. The Charleston. The Black Bottom. Dr. Kuwey in every day and every way I'm getting better and better. Oh, yes. Weren't we, though? Good evening. I'm meeting my son here. Sorry. Joe sent me. Oh, okay, Doc. Hey, Dad! Oh, there you are, a chick. Well, how've you been, son? Oh, swell, Dad, swell. Coming over to Bud's birthday party tomorrow, aren't you? You couldn't keep me away. Say, how old is he? A 10, huh? Yeah, a 10. Oh, Dad, he's a great kid. Yeah, he is, chick. Just like you with that age. What'll it be, Chance? You got any of that imported stuff? No, just off the boat. We scraped it all. Okay, bring us a couple. Let's have a look at your paper, Dad. Sure. Anything new? Not a thing. Japan invades Manchuria. How are things at the office, Dad? Mussolini in power in Italy. The man with the funny mustache gaining strength in Germany. The Japs in Manchuria and daring the world to do something about it. We couldn't be bothered. Let's get out of the story, as we shall see. This is Clifton Faderman. Tonight on the Johnson-Wax program, Words at War, we're bringing you a program suggested by two books, The Time for Decision by some Nobles and U.S. War Ames by Walter Lippmann. We want to look ahead tonight to the kind of peace that will last. But first, we're looking back to see why the last peace didn't. We're looking back with an American family we've invented.  Let's rejoin them. So Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 and so what? So nothing. We had other things to worry about, the depression, bread lines, 10 million unemployed. So Japan got away with it. And on the other side of the world, the guy with the mustache and the guy with the chin exchanged winks and said, brother, this is going to be a cinch. The guy with the mustache and the guy with the chin exchanged winks and said, brother, this is going to be a cinch. So in due course, Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. Get your paper. And our friend Agnes chatted over the telephone. Did you ever hear anything like it, Betty? Yes, I think the cutest things. Imagine five of them, quintuplets. Huh? Oh, quintuplets. The chin looked at the mustache and said, now. The mustache said, now. Italy invades Ethiopia, paper. And then the mustache looked at the chin and said, now. And the chin said, now. Hitler starts universal military training. Oh, it makes my blood boil. Hey, wait, hold everything. At last, our friend Charlie is getting mad. Good. Let's listen. Yes, sir, it makes my blood boil. What's that, dear? Oh, these gangsters, this Dillinger guy, running wild, shooting people. Why don't they stop him? Oh, I suppose they'll catch him in time. In time, in time, in time's not enough. They ought to run those guys down and send them all to the chair. We can't just sit by and talk about it. Why can't people wake up to that? Why can't they see what's going on right under their own noses? Why can't they? They're Occupy's Rhineland. Civil War. Japan invades China. Hitler demands... Hitler demands... Hitler demands... Hitler demands... Where does that clock? Oh, hey, wait. No, stop them, somebody. Stop them. You overslept. Know what time it is? September 1st, 1939. And so in due time, it began all over again. The boys went off to camp, not Charlie's son this time, but Charlie's grandson. And they were the final furloughs. Dad, mother, Mary and I want to be married before I go overseas. Married, son? Wouldn't it be better to wait until after the war, Mary? I don't want to wait. Neither does bud. We want to be married now. I know, but you can never tell about... Sure, kids, get married and get what happens as you can while you can. God bless you both. Thanks, mother. There were the leave takings, the pitifully brief honeymoon, and inevitably, there were. I got it, honey. Telegram. Oh. Sign for it, please. Dad. Telegram. Oh, who is it from? Just a minute. We regret to inform you that your son was killed. No! It had happened again. It had happened to the baby that lay in the crib just a couple of years after the last armistice. His father had fought the war to end war. Only to have this war flame again and claim his son. Americans are awake now. They're thinking now. Thinking and reading. Reading books like the two that suggested our program this evening. The Time for Decision by some nobles. U.S. War Ames by Walter Liffen. They're talking things out now. The Charlie's, the Agnes's, the chicks and the Betty's. George, I just read some of their Wells' book. It makes good sense to me. I've been going through Liffen's U.S. War Ames. I string along with him. Oh, listen, you fellas. Don't go hi-hat on me. Books like that. Baloney. You know it's all just talk. There's nothing you can... Joe! Joe, don't talk like that. I talked like that the last time. I said it was Baloney. That was the trouble last time. We didn't want to talk about it. We didn't want to read about it. No, we sat in speakeasies while the Japs went into Manchuria. We played bridge while Hitler took the Rhineland. We worried more about a few 10 cent gangsters in this country than the international gangsters who were plotting to... Dad, Dad, Dad. Take it easy. Dear, I've never seen you so excited. I know, I know, but I just see red. Wait a minute, Charlie. I'm the guy that's kind of out of order, I guess. I guess I was trying to be funny. Now, forget it. Tell me about it. Maybe I can learn something. What does Weld say? Yes. Tell us, dear. Well... Well, he... What would the setup be, Dad? Well, it would be a world council of the United Nations. But based on regional representation. How? There would be 11 members. One each for Great Britain, the United States, Russia and China. Two members for the group of the European states. One member for the Far Eastern states. One for the Near East and the Middle East and Africa. And one for the British Dominions. Yeah, but how would this council work, Charlie? Well, if any dispute came up between nations after the Armistice, it would be referred to the council. They'd try to settle it peacefully. If they couldn't? Well, they'd call out the International Police Force and say, Boys, there's trouble down at the corner of six and so on, so take a run down there and calm them down. Yeah, seems to me to be a lot like the League of Nations. It would be an improvement on it. Maybe so. But let me tell you when I got out of Lipman's book. I haven't read that one yet, George. You should. Anyway, Lipman approves of a world council, but only if it's for the purpose of consulting and negotiating. He doesn't want the world council to settle the affairs of all the nations in the world. Well, why, George? Well, Lipman says the world naturally divides itself up into regions that have common interests. For instance, one of them is the Atlantic region made up of the United States, Great Britain, France and Canada, together with Australia, the Low Countries, Scandinavia and South America. Now, all those countries have interest in common. It's to their interest never to go to war with each other. Go ahead. The second region would center around Russia. The third around China and someday, when we've made enough progress, it'll be a fourth community for India and that area of the world. Well, what does it all boil down to? Well, any disputes within any region would be settled by the members of that region and not by outsiders from halfway around the world. Well, what advantage would that have over the wealth plan? Oh, here. But get me straight. I'm not an authority. But Lipman puts it this way. Suppose the United States gets into a dispute with a Panama. All right. That's a matter of interest to Mexico, Brazil and some other members of our Atlantic community. What is it any concern of China or Russia? We'd resent China and Russia sitting on what we considered a neighborhood argument, wouldn't we? But Mexico and Brazil, well, they live on the same street. It's their business, too. We want to consult them. I disagree. No, George. No. It well says when there's trouble any place in the world it concerns the whole world. Yeah, but under Lipman's plan it'll never get to be a world problem, don't you see? It'll be settled right in its own backyard. It would work. That sounds to me like you're just putting a new name on a big four-power military pack. China, Russia, Great Britain and us. And you know what happens to military treaties in this world. They blow out the window. Well, your other plan won't work. The League of Nations didn't work. It could have. If it had the military power to back up its decisions. Well, I'm sure I don't know. What do you think, Chip? Mr. Wells or Mr. Lipman? I don't know, Mother. I don't know. I want to think it over. I just know this. I lost a son in this war, and I'm interested in any plan that looks for world peace. We've got to get such a plan. And the more we think and talk and read, the more likely we are to get it. By George, we're going to think this time. We're going to think and do something. If I have to go around personally and throttle every lad...  You've waked the baby. You sit still, Mary. I'll go tend to him. The baby's awake again. Let's tiptoe in and have a look. Cute little fellow, isn't he? Always waking up and... But wait a minute. This isn't the same baby we met before. No. This is that baby's baby. This is Bud's baby, a baby that we'll never see as far. How would you like your war, baby? Your grandfather, Chick, had his with tanks, poison gas, and planes that could carry a hundred pound bomb. Your father had his with blockbusters and buzz bombs and slaughtered civilians and enslaved peoples and persecuted minorities. How will you have yours, baby? The next one ought to be a pipperoo. What are we going to do for the babies who toddle and cry in their cribs tonight all around the world? Give them peace or the most horrible war of all time. Tonight we've directed your attention to the two books that suggested this program. Sumnerwell's Time for Decision, Walter Lippmann's U.S. Warrains. We respectfully suggest that these and every other serious plan for world peace deserve the profound study of every American. Clifson Faderman will return in a moment to tell us about next week's program. Friends, are you satisfied with the looks of your automobile these days? If you're not, have you done anything about it? There's an easy remedy for a shabby-looking car with Johnson's car news still available at dealers everywhere.  With car news you do both of these jobs, cleaning and polishing with one application.  It dries to a powder and when you wipe off this powder you'll see a finish that reminds you of the day you first saw your car on the showroom floor. This is not an exaggeration. We receive many letters from car owners who tell us just that. There's more satisfaction driving a car that's bright and clean. So why not stop in at your dealers tomorrow and buy a package of inexpensive Johnson's car news, spelled C-A-R-N-U. Now, Mr. Faderman, what about next week's program? Well, as you all know during the 14 weeks that Fibre McGee and Molly have been on vacation, the makers of Johnson's wax have proudly sponsored this Words at War series. Next week is our 14th and final show on the sponsored series. And you can bet that we're going to make it a bang-up broadcast. Matter of fact, we're trying to decide ourselves now between two outstanding and very provocative books. Whichever one we decide on, I'm sure we'll give you a half hour that you'll remember. So be sure to tune in. Oh, incidentally, we've received quite a number of letters asking us to identify again the book we did last week. It's called One Man Air Force by Captain Don Gentili, as told to Ira Wolford. Now, this is Clifton Faderman inviting you to be with us again next Tuesday. And until then, goodbye. Tonight's dramatization was written by Gerald Holland. Music was composed and conducted by Morris Memorsky. And the production was under the direction of Anton M. Leeder. Jack Costello speaking. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


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The scariest and creepiest job was definitely the Dahl House biohazard. We got called out to West Palm Beach, it was an overnighter for me and John, and we just headed down there. When we got inside, the place was definitely a mess. They had a lot of raggedy and dolls, but the craziest thing was the Annabelle doll that we found. This thing just creeped me out, maybe it was because there was a bio going on at the time, we were removing all the furniture, or maybe it was just because I saw the movie Annabelle and my pants when I watched that movie.


man, a changing of the guard type day. It's so crazy. The Solomon Speed Cross 4 is being retired for the Solomon Speed Cross 5. It's a little emotional. It's a little emotional. This guy went through so much in 2018, so many miles, so much vert, so much rock and mud and just nasty terrain all over Colorado and even outside of Colorado. Just like put this thing through the ringer and guess what? The Solomon Speed Cross 4 still has life in it. I am not going to completely retire it, but yes, it is going to go up on the shelf for now because it's time to get you my first impressions of this guy, the Speed Cross 5. Look at the lugs on this thing. Look at this shoe.  So again, the goal is to get this shoe as muddy and dirty and snowy as possible today. All right, let's lace it up, put them on, and let's do this. They keep going, but I got to turn around. We're at 10 miles and it's from this point it's like two miles back to the car. 3,000 feet of vertical gain thus far and anyway, got to be patient. I'd love to keep going because it's absolutely incredible out here. Give you an update on the Speed Cross 5 here in a second, but bottom line, man, nice snowpack trail and mud at times. You saw that in the clips, but overall, we're just ascending mountains, ascending mountains. All right, back down. Let's do this. Come on. Okay, let's see. 12 miles about, what is that about? About 19 kilometers, a little over 19 kilometers. Correct me if I'm not doing the math right. And 3,000 feet of vertical, it looks like. So good day. Oh my goodness. Okay, remember the baby blues. Remember the baby blues for new balance. Love those shoes. Love the nickname. But now, hold on, hold on. But now the question becomes, what do we call these guys? The Solomon Speed Cross 5. I was leaning toward the mountain eaters, the mountain eaters, but now I'm thinking like, what about the Big Bad Wolf? The Big Bad Wolves? Something like that because this, the red, the blood, and I did inflict a little wound today, a little blood down there. But this thing, look, I just cannot get over the lug action on the bottom of the shoe. All right, now I'm in my car. Basically, the battery died. Thankfully, I had a backup battery and it was just getting a little too chilly out. So I thought, yeah, let's just finish the thought process on the car ride home. Let's see. It was 50 degrees today. I was spot on. I knew it would be muddy today because the snow is melting and I just, I just knew it. I knew like if it got up to about 45, the mud would appear. And sure enough, it did. And that's what I wanted to test out the Speed Cross 5's. And we crushed it. And we crushed it. You saw the mud there. There's probably still some on my face. Yes, there is. I suppose I should take off my vest before going in and in and getting the, getting the food. Okay, made it to Texas Roadhouse. I'm just gonna ask for help. I'm gonna ask for help. Anybody in the UK, Scotland, Wales, Northwest England, I would love, hold on one second, I would love, love, love to compare the Solomon Speed Cross 5 to the Innovate Mud Claw 260. Okay, this is another shoe that's on my radar. It's basically designed for running in mud like I did today in the Solomon Speed Cross 5. I would love, love, love to do a side-by-side test. If you know anybody who works for Innovate to send them, grab the link above, grab the link, send them this video. I'm just totally game to compare the Speed Cross 5 to the Innovate Mud Claw 260. That would just be amazing. Okay, just putting it out there. Anybody in the UK, you've got connections. Let me know. Let me know. All right, let's go get food. Got the stakes. Everybody was looking at me kind of funny in there. And I realized, oh yeah, my shirt's all muddy. Probably have a little mud left on my face. Oh well. All right. Time for steak. Let's go have some. All right, here we are. Oh, burger and fries. So tasty. So tasty. I feel re-energized after 12 miles with 3,000 feet of vertical gain. And I'm realizing now I need to do the conversion for meters for all of you. I've got kind of the kilometers and miles down, but I'm realizing what about the meters. So I'll work on that next time. Next time. Okay. This is my first impression of this shoe. This is not my full review. That will happen probably in 10 to 14 days. Hopefully, I'd like to put at least 50 miles into a shoe before I give my full review. All right. Where to begin is the big question because there's a lot to talk about with this Speed Cross 5. I'd like to begin actually with a Speed Cross 4 because guess what? When I was going up the mountain today, I was like, wait a minute. This feels like the Speed Cross 4. And that's a good thing because I love, I love the Speed Cross 4. And if you love the Speed Cross 4, you will love the Speed Cross 5 so far. And I know it's just my first run. They feel very similar. There are some differences, but they feel similar thus far. One of the big differences so far is definitely the upper, the upper on the Speed Cross 5. I can already tell is much more nimble, soft, not cushioned, but it feels better. It feels lighter, not quite as thick as the Speed Cross 4. The Speed Cross 4 was, it was a good upper, but it got a little stiff and heavy after sweating, after getting in the mud and the dirt. And I can already tell that I don't know if it's, I need to do a little more research and see it feels like a different material through the upper. And that's a good thing. So a more nimble, lighter upper thus far in the Speed Cross 5. I'm excited about that because I actually mentioned maybe a month ago how the upper and the four did get a little stiff after, you know, three months of running in it. It's because of all the sweat and dirt and mud. So anyway, what else? Let's talk, okay, let's talk about the rock plate in the Speed Cross 5. Yes, there is a rock plate in this shoe. So basically in the four foot and mid foot, there's a plate in there to help protect your feet from the sharp rocks. Today I did step on a few sharp rocks that were just peeking out underneath that snow and I didn't feel a dang thing through this rock plate. So bonus points for Solomon for putting a rock plate in here. Okay, as far as, all right, the biggest question mark I have right now is the heel. I need to put more miles into this shoe on normal, regular dirt that is not muddy nor snowy because I need to feel and figure out what is going on through the heel. You can see that the heels are just a little bit different. The five is different than the four. So anyway, I want to figure out what's going on there and they're calling it the energy cell in this, I guess you would call it a foam. I think it's an EVA injected foam through this heel. Again, just my first impressions. I'll do more research. But okay, moving on to the drop. It's a 10 millimeter drop. That's a pretty high drop and I like it. I like the drop. It helps with the uphill climbing. I think to have a 10 millimeter drop and somebody asked in the comments, what was it two days ago? What is a drop? And that's a great question. Frankly, if you like aren't a running shoe geek, you may have never heard of that terminology. So the drop is basically the slope in the shoe. So from heel to toe there, it's called the stack height, the stack height. So how many millimeters of basically outsole and midsole are between the ground and the bottom of your foot? Basically. So this guy is a 10 millimeter drop from the heel all the way down to the toe box down here. So pretty high. I am weighing in at 11.3 ounces. So 320 grams, 11.3 ounces, 320 grams for one shoe. Very heavy, very heavy. And I love it. I am totally okay with it. That's okay, Solomon. These shoes are not designed for racing just so you know. So what would I use this shoe for? Not racing. Don't race. Well, okay, you could race in this shoe, but there are better options out there for trail running in aggressive trail running fast shoes. This is more of a trainer and just to all day get out in the mountains and attack the rocks, attack the mud, attack the snow type of running shoe. I would not race in this thing moving forward.  I don't even know what they call it officially, but it basically slides down. And that's how you lace down the shoes, which was really bizarre at first. When I had my first pair of Solomon's, I was like, I did not like it at all. But over time, I've come to learn and appreciate why they do it. And at this point, I do like that lacing system. It took me a little time to get used to, but I like it so far. And as far as the fit goes, no complaints. I had no slipping in the heel. I did go a half size up, but be careful. Like it's borderline for me. I think I just, I went a half size up because I like a little more, a little more room in my toe box when I'm climbing like steep hills. So I don't get black and blue toes all the time. And especially for a trainer, for a racing Solomon shoe, I would go true to size. But for the, for this guy, for the speed cross five, I decided to go a half size up just to allow a little more movement of the toes for those longer, let's say 15, 20 mile mountain runs, where I don't want my toes to feel cramped through the toe box. And pretty yeah, no slipping in the heel, no slipping in the heel and through the midfoot. Yeah, felt no issues at all. And as far as price goes, I'm kind of in shock. I'm in shock how they are able to pull this shoe off for $130. And I know that's not like ridiculously cheap, but it's not too expensive either in the whole running shoe market. Like there's a lot of shoe here. Okay, this is not a streamlined, like there's a lot of material, whether it's the, whether it's the outsole material, like these lugs, the midsole with the foam, the upper, the laces, the padding that's throughout like, so they put a lot of, you know, just overall volume of material into the shoe. And so I'm a little shocked that they're able to sell it for $130. I would say bonus points again, like that's a good price point for Solomon. Cause I know, you know, Solomon actually can be a little expensive at times, but for this guy, like shoot, I'll take it. Like I'll take 130 bucks any day. All right, moving forward, I'm going to do a lot of videos on this shoe and comparing it to this shoe and comparing it possibly to an innovate shoe, huh? Mud claws, huh? Anybody out there listening? I'd love to compare this shoe to some mud claws, but anyway, I'm going to be talking about the lugs, the upper. I just need to put some more miles into them sooner rather than later. So stay tuned for more Solomon shoes coming up. If you're a Solomon fan, let me know down in the comments and that keyword, that keyword is speed cross altogether, speed cross for this guy, the speed cross five. Thanks for hitting it up. Oh man, we're going to come back to this guy very soon. All right, the question of the day. And this comes from yesterday. Remember, I was looking for ideas and I'm just going to run with it. And I love it because it connects so well to the conversation from two days ago about your favorite running YouTubers, favorite running YouTube channels that you watch on a regular basis. So docut agurin docu, I'm not saying it correctly. I apologize, but docut agurin, he asked this question of the day from all of those great running YouTube channels, running YouTubers that everyone has mentioned two days ago. So remember who you, who you mentioned, if you could watch just one episode from each one or maybe just pick one, what would that episode, what would that video be? So think back to like, okay, maybe it's how you discovered that particular runner or maybe they did a great gear review. And this is a little bit of a homework assignment because you're probably going to have to go back and think like, oh yeah, that documentary from ginger runner. Yeah, that was a really great one. Or when Ben Barrows, you know, talks about his marathon training or his, his aspirations for the Olympic trials, that's a good one. Or, you know, Forrest of Dean runner getting chased by a wild boar or Kofusi or Sage or the list goes on and on. Hey, maybe there's a vlog from this channel. Just say it, just say it. I would be fascinated to hear over the last two and a half years, but especially the last six months, what has been your favorite video vlog episode that you have watched on this channel as well. That would be a subsection to this question of the day from Dokut Aguren. You're amazing. Thank you so much for being here. And I just cannot believe it that they are in my possession. Cannot wait to get them dirtier in the not so distant future. Seek beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow. That's what I'm talking about.


Welcome to episode number 12 of what sex got to do with it. And we have here the author, Heather Remoff, who is my favorite 84-year-old great-grandmother in the whole Western Hemisphere. Len, it's good there aren't too many chapters. You'd run out of excess. We don't have too many chapters.  But anyways, this chapter 11 is called Painting by Numbers. And we ended the chapter 10 saying that, you know, this was coming. So you want to tell us a little bit about why it's called Painting by Numbers? Because Darwinian theories of evolution are very, very dependent on numbers of offspring. He was convinced that the most successful members of the species would have the most offspring. I happen to believe that he was wrong in that. But there, in terms of evolutionary theorists, there's been reproductive success has been calculated by how many offspring there are. Now of course Darwin did argue that the individuals who are best adapted to whatever change there might have been in the environment, they were the most fit and would therefore have the most children. But his measure of success was always numbers of offspring, and I'm saying particularly in humans, that's not accurate. And yet when I did the research that inspired me to work in this field, I believed that. I went into it with an absolute assumption that the women I interviewed when they described men as successful, those men that were described as successful would have the greatest number of offspring. And I was shocked to find out that wasn't true. And I also went into it believing, because I asked women about all kinds of things, and then correlated the traits they ascribed to a man, to their behavior with the man. I assumed women would be careless users of birth control when they met men that they wanted to father their children, and that was not true at all. Two Darwinian assumptions sort of smacked me in my face, because I believed that I'd been very careful at how I structured my experimental design. I was really surprised when the outcome was not what Darwin and I predicted. So I trust your research course. One question that's popped into my head now is, I'm thinking about sperm donors. Oh, this really does change things, Len. Yeah, they've been doing it for a while. They've been doing it for a while. But now you can find out. Yeah, and it's become more popular. Does that change? Oh, the whole sperm donor thing does change things quite a bit. First of all, it actually exaggerates kind of the innate differences between men and women, which is two different ways to approach reproductive behavior. Women invest heavily in very few children. You know, biologically, men could have a whole lot of children. I mean, they could aspire 20 children, or sire 20 children at once. Once a woman's pregnant, she's got one, maybe two. It makes headlines if it gets to be too many more than two. And her whole reproductive machinery is tied up. And men, meanwhile. So sperm donors really exaggerate it then. In fact, there was recently an article a couple of years ago about this generous man who was offering to donate sperm to women who wanted to be pregnant without a charge. Of course, sperm banks do charge. And I thought to myself, that's not really generous. All he's given is his sperm. And he's getting a lot of reproductive success out of that. An awful lot of women, I forget how a lot of children are enduring the rigors of pregnancy, the damage to their bodies, the changes to their bodies, lifelong investment in children. And he's skating away. He's not helping to raise them. He's not picking up the college tuition bill. So, yes, sperm donors, oh, that really, really changes it. But does that change the nature of the type of person that reproduces me? Because you're saying that, to your surprise me, the wealthier men don't. In terms of, well, women certainly, when they're viewing those sperm donor profiles in a legitimate sperm bank in opposition to this man who just was generously going to donate his sperm to anybody who wanted it.  So women are still selecting for the traits that make men attractive. But the difference is that one man now can really do that biological imperative of having a whole lot of children. So now, given that they look at the profiles, do you feel that that might skew the results that you have noted that the wealthier men don't tend to have as many children? Not really, because in cultures, for example, where men might have a harem or in some religious groups where one man has lots of wives, there, men are having more children than women. But the traits that women select for, like the women who are willing to be in a harem of a powerful man, if he were not a powerful man, I don't think they'd be willing to be in that harem. So the individual woman, though, the individual woman, and the couple, we're mostly a pair bonding species. I think Dan Savage, the sex guru, he describes humans as being monogamish, and we are monogamish. So we're mostly pair-bonded species, and a pair that has reliable control of resources. You know, again, biology is destiny, not statistical, or is not destiny, but is statistical probability. Most families who have reliable control of resources don't have very many children. It's that old adage, what is it? The rich get rich and the poor get children. We certainly discussed that. I think it was when we dealt with chapter 10. So now we're really thinking, focusing a bit on wealth inequality, and this chapter talks a lot about wealth accumulation. So do you think that wealth accumulation would be okay if those with wealth did more good with it, or did good things with it? No, I think that's so arrogant. I'm not impressed by the philanthropy of extremely wealthy people. The Bill Gates, the Jeff Bezos, the Elon Musk. Elon Musk is kind of proud of not being too philanthropic. But to me, that's so arrogant to assume you know what other people need and want. Let's let everybody have enough control of resources that they can direct their own lives and decide what's important to them. I mean, yes, certainly Carnegie with his libraries. That's all very lovely. And I'm glad somebody did it. So wealth can accomplish good things. And I'm very appreciative when I go to libraries. I'm very grateful. There are various concert halls. I mean, the wealthy do subsidize the arts. So I'm grateful for that. But it sort of enables them to turn a blind eye to what the extreme accumulation of their wealth has inflicted on other people. You know, I talk I think in the chapter on language about how good our brain is at tricking ourselves. And so, yeah, but I'm a little more extreme than most people and I don't talk too much about my strong kind of answer I've just given you. I'm not quite that blunt in the book. But yeah, I would like an egalitarian society to start with so we don't need someone to rush in and rescue. Yeah, yeah, I hear you. So egalitarian is pretty much saying that people have about the same, right? Have the ability to have the same. Not everybody would want the same.   So I'm not saying that I'm economically deprived. But I'm very happy without too many possessions. I find possessions to be extremely burdensome. That's not true for everybody. But we certainly have far more than we need. When I was once politically active and because I'm a writer I was asked to host a letter writing campaign in my home to help other political activists kind of master writing letters to the editor. I was so delightfully charmed and amused but I think it's such a funny thing to say to someone. A woman I'd never met walked into my condo, looked around and said, oh my goodness, it doesn't look like you put any of your furniture at the same time. And I didn't. Most of my furniture has kind of been handed down. Somebody died who wants the bed.  So, you know, I'm very comfortable living that way. But not everybody is. And even I have far more than I need. As I'm approaching the end of my life, I look at the stuff, just the accumulation of stuff. I think I could have done without almost all of this. And when I die it's just going to be a burden for someone to give it away. But as a species we over accumulate, we all do. So I guess what I'm getting at is, do you feel that there is a threshold for which we should aim, for people to have either yearly or over their lives. And as long as you have reached that threshold, then it's okay to have inequality. I think there's always going to be a measure of inequality. But I mean, inequality, like really, let's just say wide disparities. I'm very much against the wide disparities. And I don't think wide disparities would be possible if we outlawed the kind of monopoly that enables those. And when I say outlawed, just make people pay. I'm particularly, and we'll get to this more in the later chapters, but I'm particularly concerned about how the ownership of naturally occurring resources enables some people to exclude others from the very things that they need in order to live it all. And in terms of thinking a citizen's dividend or a minimum annual income, I'd be in favor of that. As long as it was funded by the collection of resource rents from the people who control the commons in nature, who claim ownership to the commons in nature, as long as they were charged the resource rents that accrue to those control resources that others need, then I think that would be a good, you know, to pay a, you know, there's talk of every child that gets born, maybe born with a certain account. And I'd be in favor of some of that kind of thing. Right, we'll definitely get to the resource rent. I think if not in the next chapter and chapter after that. So if I was this idea off of you, because part of me is like, how do we get from here to there in a way that is politically palatable. And so this is maybe a little bit, not so much the case. I mean, we'll come back to maybe what I was thinking about earlier about a threshold and then having inequality over that. What do you think of this notion that you can earn as much as you want, however you earn it, you know, or you can accumulate as much money in a given year as you can. But then you have to spend it all, you know, in one or two years.  So it kind of stops you from accumulating at least the money. You can still accumulate things, but my thinking is that if you buy something, you have to pay someone for it and that money gets into the accounting. You know, I love these discussions because it forces me to think about things. It's one of the really great things about writing a book. I get to talk to people and every time I do, I get new ideas. This is an idea I'm not thrilled with and I'll tell you why, because I'm very concerned about overconsumption. And so you're forcing people to buy things. You're encouraging a growth economy and I'm not sure that kind of growth economy is sustainable. And so this consumption, in fact, the one thing that I have really liked about the supply chain issues we have going on now, I think it teaches people, hey, we don't need instant gratification or all things.  To me, that's great training for us to realize we don't need to have everything. What happens, because we evolved, we're an evolved species and when a species that's shaped by evolution does something that contributes to survival, there's a release of dopamine so you get that dopamine rush. So for example, early hunter-gatherers, they find berries and they're picking them and that gives them that dopamine rush. But we get that same rush now when we purchase something, but it's not that we're just finding something that we need to eat to sustain us. We've taken it to extremes. It's out of control. So again, because it triggers a metabolic reaction that's reinforcing behavior that people need to eat. We need to eat to live. When I say humans, the human brain has been shaped for two purposes, survival and reproduction. And survival of course is finding enough to eat and a place to be housed, but because of our symbolic control of language, because we have language, we define what we need if we're in excess of what we want. One of the economists that I admire has an expression about when you're asking about people can earn as much as they want as long as they have to buy, spend it. His little slogan is, pay for what you take, not for what you make. So he would eliminate all taxes on income and that way people could keep what they earn, but they'd have to pay for what they've taken from the commons in nature. So then they wouldn't earn as much. So that's the slogan that I favor, you know. Gotcha. So at this point, I mean, I'm going to just dip into some evolutionary stuff for a little bit and maybe I might borrow something from an upcoming chapter, an upcoming chapter, you know. So with respect to evolution, and you're referring to Stephen J. Gools, I mean, his notion of punctuated equilibria and that he could see a stable set of species, I mean, for 10 millions of years. But then you have these periods of rapid evolution that could spawn a new species in 5,000 to 50,000 years. Do you think it could be even less time than that? Oh, absolutely I do. I mean, in the early chapters of my book, you know, for example, of the change in, what was it, the snail kite, that Florida species of bird. They evolved larger beaks in just a matter of a few generations when the species of snail on which they'd been dining was suddenly threatened by a larger snail that was taking over their ecosystem. And it was in just a couple generations. But that's sexual selection that drove that. And that was a new species within? Well, it was not a new species. I mean, again, our definition of species is not real sound. I quibble with it. What is a species? I actually heard an interview, someone interviewing Franz Dual, asking, are orangutans and chimpanzees, are they different species? Would they be subspecies? My definition, and this is not universally accepted, I think a species has the same number of chromosome pairs. So we're definitely a different species from chimpanzees with our 23 chromosome pairs, and they have 24. But the great apes all have 24 chromosome pairs. So I would be more inclined to consider them subspecies. Now, Darwin and those finches, we call them different species of finches. That doesn't work fully for me. Humans have imposed a definition of species on an animal world that doesn't always neatly match. Because some species don't breed with each other, even though they have the same number of chromosome pairs. They may have been evolving or living in different areas long enough that they have different coloration, different bird song. And those can be barriers to being a reproducing pair, but they're barriers that can be overcome in the case of scarcity. In the early chapters I talked about supposedly new species of finch on the Galapagos Islands. It came from a result of two other species, existing species breeding with each other and producing offspring that have a population that mates within itself. But should there be no available birds of that particular type? I forget what they call them, big bird or something. They'll mate within what I call a species, but not everyone would. I once heard some mycologists. I went on my daughter as an amateur mycologist and we went on a mushroom walk. It's one of those wonderful things where they spread out tables and everybody comes back and puts the various fungi that they found on a table and the experts are identifying them. They were talking about different species and I asked the question around species and the two gentlemen were explaining they looked at each other and they laughed and they said, are you perhaps indicating that the animal world and the living plant world does not necessarily behave in a way that corresponds to the human definition of species and clearly that's what they believed and that's what I believe also. I thought the definition of species, I thought it was separated species with the ability to produce progeny that could reproduce. And I go with that, I would agree with you. I mean, I forget the species of fish and I heard a woman speak at the Radcliffe Institute about how quickly different species within that species of fish evolved. And I asked her, but if you took individuals from what you're calling different species back into the lab and put them together, would they and could they mate with each other? And she said, oh sure. So to me, but again, we don't have, I don't think we have a, I wish we had a more precise definition of species. I don't think we do. Well I guess for now then I'll just kind of stick with me the ability to have progeny that can reproduce. So okay, so and just something, maybe I could look this up on my own but you talk about the whale and elephants. Are whales closely related to elephants? Len, I'm not qualified to give a good answer on this but the information in my book in which I'm discussing whales and elephants, I had not realized that whales kind of came out of the ocean and elephants evolved from them and then when they got so big that their legs really couldn't support the weight on land back into the ocean of whales. So yeah, I think elephants, well of course whales are a mammal. So I think elephants and whales are probably pretty closely related but there was a forget the title of the book that the science book club read on whales and that's where I got that aha moment. So the whales came out of the ocean, became elephants? Well I mean I don't think it was quite, you know quite that obvious but in fact yeah there was a movement out of the ocean onto land and their very heavy size made it hard because whales weigh more than the largest dinosaurs. The very heavy size made it difficult like to be mobile on land. You know how can legs support that much weight and so it'd be you know back into the ocean but I'm not the expert on that but I love those kinds of, I love picking up little bits of information from people who are the experts. Yeah and that's what makes me reading your book so enjoyable and why I'm having a lot of fun just talking with you a lot about it because you do have these little tidbits of information so I was really trying to guess, like I said when I did Evolution, Population Genetics it was really on the small scales with fruit flies and then mostly DNA sequencing and I hate to tell people to a certain extent that I did Population Genetics because they would probably expect me to be able to tell you like how close the related species are and it's like that wasn't part of what I studied I wasn't particularly interested in it I mean intellectually so but not enough to really like study and absorb it so that's why when you said that elephants and whales were close related it's like are they really? And Lynn this is what is so much fun to me you know I've probably mentioned that there's some phrases that my family doesn't like to hear me mention because I talk about it so much one is referring to humans in which I say we are not a pretty species but in fact one of the things I really love about it is that our language is made possible our language is the double-edged sword it's made some great things possible and some awful things possible one of the wonderful things that's made possible is the cumulation of knowledge in a single individual like I don't have to know everything about elephants and whales to get an insight from someone who does and that to me is just fabulous I agree, I agree so you know I thought that we might get out of this chapter a little early I thought it might be actually earlier than this so I was going to maybe go back to another chapter but we have about three minutes now and so you mentioned that if you remove one thread and the whole web of life is at risk and I know that that is to a certain extent a metaphor for me but what's your sense of how many species there are in a thread? Oh, they're trillions of species But when you say a thread I think we have extinctions going on all the time even before humans became a part so we could probably lose a species or two and not have the whole web disintegrate But the thing is if you start what we might call the bottom of the food chain problems there escalate up through the food chain pretty quickly E.O. Wilson, I forget the exact number of years he said if humans died off the planet and I forget how many thousands of years the planet would be fine, we'd be gone but you remove insects, all insects from the population and everything gets wiped out But that's a lot of species though I think there's been a 40% reduction extinction rate of insects in the last decade That's a large number You're not old enough probably to remember the days when you went for a drive in the summer and you had to keep stopping to clean the insects off your windshield Nobody has to do that anymore Nobody has to do that I grew up seeing yellow spots all over the windshield Almost never does an insect get smashed on a windshield Certainly not disputing that we lost a lot of species I was just trying to get a sense of how many species you think we could maybe tolerate Essentially I was thinking how many species there are in a thread, I know it depends on the type of species and where it's located That's where I was hoping to take the conversation but you know what, maybe we can take it there when we cover the next chapter which is going to call the economics of desire Thank you very much for talking to me on chapter 12 Thank you everybody


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Neptune Digital Assets announces Bitcoin mining operations. Neptune Digital Assets announces symbol change and corporate update. Wow. Lots of news coming up here. Neptune Digital Assets is pleased to announce it has confirmed the delivery date of its first tranche of 300 of the previously announced 1500 ASIC Bitcoin mining machines for April 12th. So that's the news release dated right here, March 19th, which I wanted to refer to. So on March 19th, Neptune Digital signs LOI on a 5MW solar wind and gas Bitcoin mining facility with link global and releases Q2 statement with record earnings. Wow. So they are co-developing a 5MW renewable energy Bitcoin mining facility in Alberta, Canada. This agreement follows shortly after a separate partnership on March 4th, 2020 with link to procure and operate 1500 ASIC mining machines for Neptune at their existing facilities. 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It's necessary in an energy-intensive sector. Link and Neptune are committed to incrementally lowering the impact of Bitcoin mining. We are determined to prove that the future of mining digital currency can be a green one. We look at this as the beginning to expand our footprint in renewable energy projects for digital currency mining. The company will also be filing its consolidated condensed interim financial statements for the six-month period ended February 28, 2021, an associated management discussion and analysis under the company's profile on Cedar. Wow, some big news. And it followed here just two days ago. Wow. So based on this news right here, they're talking about having a profit margin of approximately 4,000 USD per day at the current Bitcoin price of 55,000 USD. And right now the price is actually 59,000 USD. Subsequent deliveries will continue as the company scaled to 1,500 units on the initial buildout of Neptune Bitcoin mining operations. We are very optimistic on the future of our growing revenue channels and want investors to know that we are committed to execution of these plans. And we continue to scale our mining operations to add to our existing income streams as we move through to 2021, stated Kail Moody, CEO of Neptune. Neptune has also arranged a private placement of units of the company with certain directors and other investors of the company for an aggregate proceeds of 500,000 at 80 cents per unit. The company anticipates the closing of the private placement will take place on or about March 31st today, 2021. Each unit does come with a warrant priced at a dollar. Interesting. The company intends to use the proceeds from the private placement for strategic cryptocurrency acquisitions, Bitcoin mining equipment, and to co-develop the previously announced 5MW Renewable Energy Bitcoin Mining Facility in Alberta, Canada. The security sold in the private placement will be subject to a four-month resale restriction from the date of closing about Neptune Digital Assets Corp. Neptune Digital Assets aims to be a cryptocurrency leader with a diversified portfolio of investments and cryptocurrency operations across the digital asset ecosystem, including Bitcoin mining tokens, proof of stake, cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, DeFi, and associated blockchain technologies. Wow. These guys have got their hands involved in a lot. I think this is a company you need to put on your watches, put on your radar. Here's their symbol in America, NP-PTF. Was it 20 cents when as high as $1.04 been retracing? Obviously, everything that is Bitcoin related has had a huge run up and Bitcoin had a little retrace from its all-time highs. And we're seeing that a lot of cryptocurrency and blockchain stocks are following suit. And let's see here. Do we see the price of Bitcoin? Let's just quickly take a look at the price of Bitcoin. Wow. So Bitcoin at $59,000, approaching all-time highs again. So this is very bullish for NDA. NDA is the symbol in Canada, Neptune Digital Assets, currently at $0.88. Now remember, this has gone from $0.25 to a high of $0.128. And it's now consolidating, it's coming back down. So while you've got to lock in profits, guys, but it seems to be finding a floor. So at some point, it will most likely find a floor. But because this company is actually generating revenue, I think what we're going to see happen is this. So let's just say that this is the floor around $0.88. Maybe it goes a little bit lower as low as, let's say if Bitcoin does dip, it could go as low as $0.64, I think, but maybe even lower. But this is kind of what I see based on what it's done. I think this is a reasonable price. Could go a little bit lower, but I think that we could see it go much higher from here. And with them making $6 million a quarter, I don't say any reason why this stock couldn't even go to at least $2. I'm going to make a prediction right now. And then if we go to TMX Money and we look at their share structure, I was looking at it earlier today. I was very impressed with the share structure.  If I see a tight float stock, I'm all over it. And I see Bitcoin and blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, staking. Look at this, 92 million shares issuing outstanding. So under a hundred million shares, only an 81 million market cap. I don't see any reason why this can't go to at least $1.50, $2 in 2021. So I think the upside is tremendous. And then announcing $6 million of revenue for the quarter seems extremely bullish for me. Love to know what you guys think about Neptune digital assets. What do you guys think? This is Rich from Rich TV Live. If you're not winning, you're not watching. We bring you winners and we bring them to you first. This is a company that is brand new to my watch list, brand new to my radar. If you are a Rich Aholic, if you're part of the Rich TV Live, Rich Picks Daily Club, if you're not joined at richpicksdaily.com, we talk about cryptocurrencies every day. This is a cryptocurrency slash stock. I mean, this is exactly what we look for. And it's still under a dollar. So it's been over a dollar. It's also been a 25 cents. So it could go down or up from here. Bitcoin seems to be climbing and I believe Bitcoin will see a hundred thousand. So assuming that Bitcoin does go higher and that's been the trend and continues that momentum, there's a very good chance that we see Neptune digital also go up higher. What do you think? Remember Rich TV Live is strictly education and information purposes. Please do your due diligence. Please do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about here on Rich TV Live. If you're not winning, you're not watching. We bring you the winners. We bring them too first. What do you guys think about Neptune digital assets? Is it a buy? Do you own it? Are you looking? Are you interested? RSI is kind of high, sitting at 62. So it could go lower. We could definitely see this dip. But I also think that the upside is tremendous just because they're in one of the hottest sectors in the world, blockchain technology, with Bitcoin being hot. Put it on your watches. Put it on your radar. You're bored of Rich and Rich TV Live in a moat. Peace. It could be another winner. And we love 10 baggers. What do you think? Could this be the next 10 bagger? Never know.


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