Good afternoon, Howard Wigg, Code Green, Sink Tech, Hawaii. Have I got an unusual and entrepreneurial guest for us today? This is Frank Rogers, president of the Cool Roof Store. If you are a habitue of baritannia, you have seen his store with these funny-looking, teeny little homes, one on the ground, one up on a stage. And that is him, and there's all kinds of implication. Of course, we're going to talk about the uses of a tiny home, all kinds of uses, and the construction of the home are near and dear to my heart, because they work as effectively as insulation in retarding the heat, getting into the space. But all it is is three-quarters ply with some stuff on the exterior and some stuff on the interior. Very fascinating stuff. So welcome to the show, Frank. Really pleasure to see you. And, you know, we've got so many slides, so much material. Why don't we just jump right in and show the first slide, and you can just take it away here. Okay, well, we'll do it. And again, thank you, Howard, so much for having me on the program. I really appreciate it. If you've gone down Barrett Tanya Street, you've probably seen us a couple of times at our store. And if you look up on the screen there, we have two tiny houses that are currently models. The one on the top floor, right above the Cool Roots store sign, which is where our building is, was decorated to kind of be kind of an upscale, you know, Kahala type of look with our tiny house. And it has a lot of faux finishes on it, so you can have whatever kind of roof you really want to have on it. You can have a tile roof or a shingle roof. And you can kind of see a couple different viewpoints. The lower house is kind of what I call the Kalapana one, because it's kind of arising from the ashes. And so we just decorated it different, and you'll see when we get down to the interior that the one on the bottom has a second-story loft, which you can either use for sleeping or for storage. Let's go to the second slide, because this slide has a story behind it. What in the world is going on here? So what motivated me to get in this market was my brother had done some container housing, and he'd been on and done some projects for the city and the state, and also consulted a little bit with the Sand Island project, you know? Yeah. And that was with container-type housing, Matson-type container housing. And for me, I found that it was very confining with the container housing. There were a lot of problems with it. There's a lot of strength with it too, and then my brother does sell a lot of them. So I started off from the ground, from the ground zero and decided, if I build a structure that was super durable, could be erected quickly, could be deconstructed quickly, could last over 30 years with minimal maintenance, and I didn't have to worry about the building department telling me what to do. How could I do that? And by the way, I'm not to compare myself at all to this, but I hear that Elon Musk, when he designs whatever, he uses a similar thing where he just says all rules are out, and then you decide it the way you want it to. So we wanted to be super strong, could be used even for the Coast Guard, the military emergency housing could be collapsed. And so the more I thought about it, the more I really simplified the construction of it so that we just ended up with a very simple but durable construction lightweight and could be easy to use. Why don't we go to the third slide to illustrate this. Wow, how portable can you get? That's the house. Yeah, I think that's the latest one we just cut, and that's all the sheets that you need to do all the roof walls, floors, and decks of the entire house. Now there's a aluminum framework which we'll show and some other things, but that is in essence the whole 10 by 12 foot structure. So we started with a 10 by 12, because it's 120 square feet, and that's a minimum, excuse me, the maximum amount you're allowed to build without having a building permit as long as you use it for storage. And so we tell our customers, that's for storage, you can do this, you don't need a permit. If you want to use it for anything else than a permit, you have to check with the building department. And we're hoping that some rules might be once we prove the integrity of our structure that maybe we can start to get some permitted projects on this too and to build out bigger than 120, because that's like a little Lego building block, you can put them together, it can be 120, 240, or 80, etc. and you can build in either direction to make it as big as you want. And let's look at the next slide, we're going through quickly, because there are a whole lot of slides and we have some go and tell here too. Yeah, so this is our panel, it's three quarter inch plywood, which is very strong, it has kind of a cross, you know, lamination on it, and both sides have a high pressure laminate, similar to the mica would be what you would think of on the skin. And this is our basic building block, three quarters plywood is really quite strong. And then we combine that with our aircraft aluminum framework, which I'll show you in a second. But here's how the panels, the wall panels slide together, we have an aluminum panel connector. Now this is industrial grade aluminum too. Yes, well the structural aluminum here that we use for the structure is a T6 and the alloy is called 6061, it's an aircraft in structural grade aluminum and it's put together with stainless steel brackets and 516 stainless bolts and it's nutted on all sides. So extremely strong aluminum, corrosion resistance, stainless steel, and then aluminum panel dividers. So in a marine environment you can put this right next to the ocean and it ain't going to corrode. You can, we would say don't submerge it for long periods of time in a salt tank. Next to the ocean. The reason I would say for long periods of time is I believe that if you have a flooding situation I think you have on Kauai and your house flooded all the way up and it was flooded for a day or two and then when the floods subside if you just dry it out all out you're not going to have any mold or mildew or any penetration into here because you don't have any exposed plywood panels once it's all encased it's sealed up with a sealant on all sides. So you have a waterproof, you know, Formica type surface, again not Formica but high pressure laminated HPL and all connected together. Now this is put together this is like, imagine this is a corner post here and so your sheeting or your siding would come down on the sides and then it's bolted through bolted all the way across and that gives it a lot of structural integrity as well between the two. Really quite a heavy corner piece. So this is the structure of the unit I think you'll see that in some of the slides coming up how we put it together so it's a very lightweight structure but only a couple thousand pounds so it can be collapsed down in a very small amount into a pile like we saw about two to three feet big and so our idea was that if say the Red Cross hopefully or emergency services had maybe a dozen or two dozen of these in a warehouse if you had an emergency like the flooding on a quai or a hurricane or a fire or whatever you had or a lava flow you could quickly put these on a helicopter and then fly them to the site say to Pahoa and you know, obviously in less than a day just load them up, just pork lift them in there and then it can be put together with just kind of like if one or two people are like a good what I call an expert handy person with things they don't have to be a contractor but kind of like a big IKEA set you're putting together and you're bolting it all together because everything is screwed or bolted nothing is nailed together it all comes in panels so we say that two people in two or three days can assemble it or disassemble it so let's say that you had a situation where the village was wiped out you have a lot of willing labor right there all you need is one or two instructors you know, we could do it but other people could do it as well and come in and they can teach people relatively untrained people how to assemble all these and you would have a village within just a couple days through a week whereas in normal disasters we're talking people especially mothers and children kind of out in the elements for days and days and days right and this will be completely waterproof, completely rust proof completely termite proof there's a termicide inside all the wood panels but it's safely discounted and you're for my covering and you'll see that we can fit a small family of you know three to five people if needed in just one of these units five people would get pretty cozy but what the heck it's a whole lot better than being outdoors when we show the interiors I'll show you how you can do it five is stretching it I was thinking a husband wife and two little kids three little kids you could do it three medium sized kids you could do it but after that you're pushing it why don't we go to the next slide what we have offering oh yeah here's your construction so here's how it's all just screwed together now you're seeing that we have a built-in gutter in essence and it collects the water all down there it hits the gutter so it doesn't go into the flash you when you come out the door but you can collect all that water in your water collection system on the side of the the place there and the coatings that we use the heat reflective coatings that are integral to the cooling of this building have also been approved for a potable water drinkable water collection and that's kind of unusual because we looked around for certification for potable water even prior to us getting this coating that we have and we didn't find very much for that so you can collect the water on the big island or quay or wherever you can collect the water and you can drink it and know that it's safe to drink beautiful that calls for the next slide so what makes it one of the problems we thought was okay we need to be cool you're the energy energies are as it were we need to make sure that the house is going to be cool and yet we didn't want to just have a lot of white boxes one of the things we pride ourselves on is what it's all done it's a blank canvas it is literally a white blank canvas and you can paint on it whatever you want to so we've made some stencils that people can easily spray or sponge on or you can hire an artist or bring out the artist in yourself and you can make your house look like whatever you want to if you want an expensive looking tile roof you can do that if you like it looking like brick we can do that if you just want to have local patterns or tribal patterns or information graphics you know in a disaster medical center things you know cafeteria things like that it's very easy just to put it on our flat surface but the heat reflective paint is what allows us to be nice and cool and so you start off with this high pressure laminate board which has a matte finish almost like a flat finish you can paint right on top of it and so we put our waterproof primers on here on the outside and then we put our NXP paints it's a special paint that has special heat reflective coatings and that means that the that works on the reflectance factor and how much will bounce off and the reflectance factor goes all the way if this was charcoal it would be 26% so this was black black this is 26% reflectivity it doesn't sound like too much reflectivity higher numbers are better the white the white coating is about 90 to 91% which is right about the upper range of what you can get down to 26 but substantially more if that same black charcoal paint didn't have our UV reflectance it would reflect less than one half of the statistics for that whereas ours is 26% and then you get into the 50 and 60% reflectivity when you get into kind of these mid-beige colors 50, 60% and as you get lighter into the pastels and you get to 70, 80% anything over 70% is considered a certified by the Cool Roof Council those 70 plus is good so the pure white is 90, 91% but if you just don't want a white cube you can at least paint the sides of your building different all sorts of colors you have really dark colors if you want to so this here is to keep the heat out before it even thinks about penetrating through that's the first line of defense and the best line of defense so that's reflectance on the outside now on the inside we need to take a break why don't we take a break before we get into that because that's absolutely fascinating so how would we Cool Roof Rating Council no between Hawaii rank rogers president we will be back in a minute Aloha and welcome to at the crossroads I'm your host Tisha King you can catch me every Wednesday alive at five I'll see you there Aloha this is Winston Welch I am your host of Out and About where every other week we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world and events, organizations the people that fuel them it's a really interesting show we welcome you to tune in and we welcome your suggestions for shows you got a lot of them out there and we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well so I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics and a lot you're going to come away inspired like I do, so I'll see you every other week here at three o'clock on Monday afternoon Aloha good afternoon again Howard Wig cold green we have Frank Rogers president of the Cool Roof store we're talking about a combination of tiny homes plus what I would call extreme reflectivity where you build a whole of barrier against the penetration of the sun's heat into a home and it's a beautiful combination of technology so why don't we get into how you're doing what I would call super reflectance here and keeping that heat out so beautifully so again as we were saying on the outside where imagine this is your roof the sun is going to come and it's going to reflect off so that's called total solar reflectance and the higher numbers will be 90, 80, 70 anything above 70 is considered a cool roof but numbers below that also make a big difference and on your sidewall as we talked about you might want to have some other colors other than white you might want to decorate it and that's perfectly fine because with the NXT cool coat which comes with your which comes with the house that will reflect the heat and will last a lot longer than ordinary paint now on the underside on the underside if you have extra protection you can paint a silver codon we can spray a silver codon and it acts like a radiant barrier it acts like the old foil heat radiant barriers that people wrap put up in the rafters so besides the reflectance on the white surface of up to 90% you also have what do we call you keep the solar emitance not the reflectivity but the emitance is the heat that wants to come through your roof radiated as heat but the foil on the backside just like on the foil houses will take that heat and send it right back up through the roof so it rejects after the 90% that you get on your white roof whatever wants to come through will be rejected by the 76% of it will be the heat will be sent back up so you kind of have a double layer there you have an exterior and interior thing in between the two that in certain cases we won't won't have to have a double wall construction with typically fiberglass bath insulation and things like that because that would kind of destroy the purpose on the construction of our the bath would be 3-4 inches and when you have a tiny home that 3-4 inches all around the perimeter that makes a heck of a lot of difference we've also noticed that wet climates let's say Pahoa, Kauai anywhere people don't like double wall construction when I grew up I came here in 1960 and we lived in a single wall construction house in Kailua I think it was redwood, single wall you know, tongue and groove but with double wall while it sounds really good in wet climates you have a lot of mold and mill that grow back there you're not sure how bugs get in or where the leaks is and where you can track them 100% waterproof even with high winds but if we didn't caulk a joint properly which has happened we'll see a little drip come down we know exactly where it is it literally takes one or two minutes to go up there with caulking and just hit that one little part of the joint that you did so we claim, our claim is that you have minimal maintenance for 30 years plus on this because you have basically indestructible aluminum and metal type elements in here and all you have to do is maybe caulk and paint it every 10 to 15 years use your maintenance it's even sealed on the underside so moisture can't get from underneath the board we can use the underside why don't we go to the next slide here here is a moneer tile roof, now this is not for my tiny house here but this is just an example of what we do commercially a lot of times you'll see the old ceramic, the old moneer concrete tiles are weathered so we clean them and we put on our heat reflective coatings and that keeps it cooler and also lets you recycle so those moneer tiles can last a long, long time even after 30 or 40 years we recode them at least one or two a week and we keep them out of that the same principle acts with the tiny and the less heat any material absorbs the longer it's life exactly, less expansion contraction so let's go to the next slide that's the underside of the concrete tile the moneer tile painted with the silver one of the best applications too is metal buildings and warehouses and it not only helps keep your thermal emittance down by 76% but it's really easy to access from the underside with a sprayer so if you have a metal building that is hot but also that you don't want to rust because a lot of times you see the rust forms on the underside that ruins that expensive metal roof so if you spray the zinc coating that's a zinc coating it preserves the underside of your metal roof as well as keeping it nice and cool and that calls for yet the next slide that's just the story they did on Hawaii renovation and that's an idea of this is my office, I actually work out of this every day it has a 13 foot high ceiling and we wanted to show that you could fit even in a fancy neighborhood you could stick this and it wouldn't look out of place we didn't want our thing to look like sometimes it's not in my neighborhood for tiny houses for homeless or emergency housing but we feel if you can make it look attractive you can either blend in with the neighborhood or you can decide to even uplift the neighborhood by having a really nice looking look and I know that was one of the big concerns when we talked to the city about the projects out in Makaha and it doesn't matter where you are nobody wants to have a homeless village next to you our feeling is that you have to really sell the neighborhood on this is going to be the nicest looking one that there is and also the other thing we found out oddly enough is that you also have to sell the homeless on having a place to live to because a lot of times there are certain restrictions variety and pets and other things that come up so it's nice to have a place that they really like and we really desire it our hope is that we can kind of have them train them to kind of keep the place up and help clean and even pick up around and the more that you can get people to kind of take care of stuff perhaps they get their own unit they don't have to share we'd love to see what can be done to kind of rehabilitate and retrain people and that's what we do my other company Leakmaster Roofing retraining through Laumaca we have some prisoners some of our best people that we've gotten back into the mix and I also have a feeling that a lot of the homeless once they get into a nice secure situation some of them have real building talent and other talent and so if they can store their tools someplace safely and they're not sleeping underneath a freeway because nobody can go to work after keeping under a freeway and be very effective if we can get them stabilized get them off the wrong chemicals and maybe even have their meds adjusted in the correct way I would like to see the able-bodied homeless come back into the workforce and make some good money and have a stable life and that's kind of my longer goal for that and another possibility would be ADU's accessory drilling unit stick this in in your backyard and you're off and running yeah so we're hoping that we can get some free approvals from the building department and they'll say as long as you're going with this unit and it is modular since it is a known quantity that once it's approved it will be easier for it to go through the building permit process and they'll say okay well we know the structure of this and as long as you abide by I guess the setbacks and all the other building regulations that it would be a quicker stamp on the permit is what we're hoping for us and for the building department. A partial solution to the headlines every day in the paper need homes need homes especially we need affordable homes and I think we've got one or two more slides oh yes this is how you mount the homes you don't just put them on the ground right so to let you know so what we do is we sell this as a kit so everything you need in the kit for the basic unit and it's $12,850 and we charge $950 to assemble it on your level lot on Oahu now the foundation is going to be up to the owners now in this particular case this owner had a contractor put down 12 of these 100 pound blocks and those blocks will be buried you see them on top for placement those will be buried in the ground and cemented with quick treat and then aligned there and if you really want a lot of wind up resistance we put 16 blocks on there another row of four on there and then those blocks are cemented buried in the ground and you'll see the metal strap that comes up through the block and then our metal framework as you see there fits right on the corner block and if you look at the very bottom you'll see a strap that's coming up from underneath the block that's the strap that's cemented into the concrete and then we drill through and through bolted on all of these and bolted through so imagine that you don't have the weakest link in a chain the old saying the weakest link in a chain because all of these are through bolted to each other and then further the plywood three quarters plywood is through bolted through all of these it's all or nothing the structure is all going to go on to one big piece you're not going to have the shingles fly off which opens up and you have all the flooding you're not going to have a fascia board and then the wind captures and pulls that off it's all one great big unit that's inextricably connected together and then cemented down on the on the footing so if you have good footings and you put them down there you also don't have a big eave the eave is where the wind will come underneath the the wind will come underneath your eave and capture it on a house and pull it up but we have such a what we call a 12-12 slope a 90 degree slope we only have an 8 inch eave on the bottom side so the wind is more apt to go off the roof here it doesn't get much purchase here and this is bolted by so many different stainless steel bolts and clips that it's not going to pull off anyway so we're thinking that we have a really good wind profile for that and particularly when you bolt them together in multiple units that that's even a stronger and we've got one or two more slides left here you see it being erected it gives you a good idea and that aluminum is what we call key 6 aluminum the alloy is 6061 it's used in aircraft, it's used for structural building it's a very well known quantity by the building department and you see it's all kind of bolted together with our brackets and our panel connectors and it's just starting to go up there so you can see it all goes together, two people can put that together in two or three days just handy people and just an A frame ladder no special tools, a little drill bit that sort of thing and I think we've got maybe one more this is a cute one if you look at our model down below this is a loft, that's a 5 foot ceiling and it's 10 feet from left to right so as I like to say James is up there, because LeBron is not quite 10 feet as far as I know on the other side you'll see another one just the same size so you could put one kid on that side even a big kid, you could put a certainly an adult, any adults up there and then the middle one we just kind of have decked out for personal things but in a pinch you could put a third kid you know on the middle section or even a third adult in the middle section too if we're talking an emergency situation all the villages are down there's a lot of bugs and centipedes it's dark, you want shelter you can get three above and then down below I think we should show another slide you'll see that we have this doesn't show the bed because I'm kind of sitting on the bed when I take the picture but you see just the corner of the bed on the left but here we imagine that if you had to in this 10 by 12 foot area you could have a toilet and what you don't see in this picture behind the toilet is a shower head so you can actually take a shower there and there's shower curtains that draw the kitchen, you see tables microwave and then you can put a double inflatable bed which is where I was taking the picture from so you could have two adults or down below you could have three kids up above I think that would be a reasonable expectation and again it's a little bit on the cramp side but if you're in an emergency situation this is absolute luxury exactly so a lot of people are going to be using it for like a grandma unit and we're trying to get that approval from the building department so that if we follow all the right rules so we can get that absolutely and on that cherry note we have more to cover but we don't have any time to cover it on Frank Rogers thank you so much this is our great great program and that does it for today's think tech Hawaii Howard we'll see you next time


Okay, well hi everyone and welcome to our all day movie workshop. I'm Peter, and I'm going to be your host today. And we have a beautiful movie lined up. This is one of my favorites I think I have to watch it at least once a year. So with that I'll just pass it straight over to you now David. Thank you. Thank you Peter welcome everyone. Glad you can be with us. Oh what a nice deep devotional dive we all have today. Yeah, this, this movie we're going to watch today is such a masterpiece. Franco Zafarelli is the filmmaker and he's just a masterful filmmaker. And it's really showing the life of St. Francis St. Francis of Assisi. The movie is called brother son sister moon. And I didn't have to pray long on this one because when I looked at our movie poll and what you all voted on the themes. It just it just jumped into my mind. It was just so obvious for all of the themes that we have for this week so so as usual we had our English poll our Spanish poll and our tribe poll tribe community poll. And then we combined them all to see what is the theme of the of the moment and coming in. In first place was trusting in divine providence but the hundred and one votes. So what is divine providence you know that that is usually a question for people like you might have read in the eastern literature they talk about the Prana energy and living off of Prana energy Jesus when he was doing a lot of teachings 2000 years ago. His apostles would get kind of concerned because sometimes he would teach for days without eating anything.  And he would say, I live on manna from heaven. So it was very much like the eastern concept of the Prana energy except he called it mana from heaven. And if we are truly a creation of God and we're a light being then as the more we recognize our true nature. It's actually the love of God that sustains us in everything not as Jesus says in the lesson number 50 is not pills money protective clothing being liked knowing the right people. Those are not what sustains us. It's actually the love of God that always sustains us whether we are aware of it or not. And then I think many people tell me that they think of divine providence. I mean, they think of St. Francis or Jesus or Mother Teresa as examples. I mean, more modern day example might be peace pilgrim who started hiking around the United States and Canada when her hair turned white with no money. No sense of organization or support just walking out on the open road and walking, you know, 10s of thousands of miles, just knowing that she was completely provided for. So trusting in divine providence is is a very good topic because the key word is trust and trust is the first characteristic of a teacher of God and of course in miracles and Jesus says all the rest of the characteristics depend on the first one on trust. So it's trusting that there is a presence providing for you even with the needs that you believe you have. And sometimes people feel well it's so rare, like maybe there's a handful of people in history that that were living in divine providence but not the trillions and trillions of others. But actually it's a principle, it's in mind and once you come close to that principle you start to realize that really everyone is living in divine providence, but they may believe otherwise. It's a divine principle that comes from from the Holy Spirit so if everyone is equally accessible to the principle it's not like there are special cases where there's a few sprinkled special ones that you can count on one hand. And then there's other masses that that don't have any access to it. It's actually, even when you have a career, you are living in divine providence, even when you have an inheritance or you hit the lottery. I would say those seem to be extraordinary compared to divine providence because, you know, well, hitting the lottery or getting inheritance or even working a job. Those things are associated with sustenance because they're associated with money. And that just shows you how thick the mesmerism of this world is the hallucination of this world where now the belief in lack, and the belief in having to do things in form to meet that lack to meet the needs and the expectations of that lack. Has become so accustomed, has become so accepted as the norm that divine providence seems to be far, far, far away. But it's people in history like St. Francis that really show us the way and show us that if you have a love of God and you have a devotion to spirit, like he had such a deep devotion to living the scriptures, to following Jesus's examples in an actual living experience, that he's happy to report the things are taken care of and we get to see that in this movie today. The second theme was tabula rasa, a clean state of mind with 70 votes. And that's the purpose behind St. Francis's life. He wants to learn how to forgive, he's going to use the Gospels and Jesus as an example, and he's going to do everything that he can to put that those teachings of Jesus into everyday practice on daily living. And he really carries it forward and shows the way he was a wayshower in many ways, just like Jesus was. But the tabula rasa clean state of mind is basically a mind that is freed of judgment through guidance and definitely St. Francis followed his inner guidance, even though he started out in the world as all human beings do with his family, with his city, his culture being raised in the Catholic culture of Italy at the time, a tiny little town called Assisi. The third one is giving all to all. That's what St. Francis was really striving for. He was trusting that the teachings of Jesus about look at the lilies of the field, they neither spin or toil, and yet they are provided for better than Solomon. King Solomon makes a reference. He's saying look at the birds of the air, how simple their lives are. So he was what we might call a nature mystic or a nature saint that he, along with the spirit and the intuition using the symbols of nature, he just really believed in his heart that life was meant to be simple. And it wasn't meant to be complicated. And of course religion, organized religion can get quite complicated. Organize anything can get complicated in this world. We need to be so tuned into spirit and so prayerful and intuitive that we can simply be in the joy of the moment and let the rest go. And St. Francis went a long way in that he, of course, was raised with a whole culture of sacrifice, which all human beings, everyone who comes to planet Earth has a belief in sacrifice. So that wasn't unusual, or it's not something that is just a Catholic thing. It's egoic, and everyone who comes to this world believes in the ego. So Francis was making a big attempt to escape. False versus true empathy. This is something that takes a lot of discernment to really grasp. Jesus says in the Course it's one of the most difficult ideas to grasp. But basically, false empathy is having any belief in an external world. If you believe the world is outside your mind, that's false empathy. It's not just commiserating with somebody.  Oh, I'm having a bad day. Oh, that's too bad. That's just obvious examples of false empathy, but to believe that you're sustained by jobs and money and careers. That's false empathy. To believe you're sustained by friendship and partners and families. That's false empathy. To believe that you have issues at times with the government or politicians. That's false empathy. And what's true empathy then? Listening to the Holy Spirit. It's that simple. If you listen to the Holy Spirit, you're in true empathy because the Holy Spirit is in the right mind. And Jesus tells us in the Course that our whole problem is looking at the world in a wrong-minded way through the ego's filter. It's not that the world itself is a problem. It's the perception of the world through the ego's filter of fragmentation and separation. That is the problem. So we simply have a filter problem. It's almost like if you had dark glasses instead of our hearts. If you were wearing just dark glasses, sunglasses all the time. Dark sunglasses all the time. So you could barely read. You could barely drink. You could barely do anything because you had the dark glasses on. And then we have these light, soft, rosy glasses of the Holy Spirit. And when you get them on, oh, everything's so bright and clear and crystal clear. Oh, it's all, it's very rosy too. It's very beautiful. It's very wonderful. It's spectacular. And that's the true empathy where it's thinking with the Holy Spirit and Jesus, perceiving with the Holy Spirit and Jesus. And you feel the emotions of the Spirit in that perspective. And that is what true empathy is. It's staying with what's real and true. And the fragmented world is not true. It's a hallucination. It's a mesmerizing effect that has no cause because ego's not a real cause. It's projected world isn't even there. As we learn from Lesson 132 in the Course, there is no world, period. It's a hallucination of separation. It's a hallucination as if there is no God, as if there is no Spirit, as if there is no love. And the filter of the ego is brought about by the ego, this belief in separation from God. So the final one is mystical community. We get a glimpse of mystical community. We get a glimpse of St. Francis following his calling. And at first it's just him. He's just walking out of the gates of Assisi. After he takes his clothes off on a public square in front of his parents and the entire city and gives the clothes back to his father who can't even bear to look at him in the eye. And he also makes a move to follow God that he gives back his clothes. He gives back his family name. He gives everything away and talk about a symbol of no possessions. Walking out the city, city gates, naked and arms wide open. It's like in the light. Here I am, Lord. And that's not the end of St. Francis' journey. That's more toward the beginning. That's the kind of faith it takes to follow God, to say I would hold nothing before you, God. And that gives away my erroneous ideas of possession, of control, of ownership, of being right, even of superior, inferior thinking. You know, all of that, it's like, here you go, arms wide open, I give it all to you. Take it from me. And that is going to start what we could call a mystical community. Jesus showing up on on planet Earth that generated a mystical community. First among some some of his dear friends and then when the apostles were called one by one, the 12 apostles, and then there was the women's core that that was part of it, and Mary Magdala and so forth. That that was a mystical community. It was a very devoted mystical community, but we see that it's all about a state of mind. It was just the state of mind that and the state of being that Jesus was experiencing was generating almost like a little force field around him. And that was part of this huge calling to God, to know God, and, and therefore those that were drawn to him, and seemingly part of his apostles and inner circles, were just reflecting this light, this brilliant light. And that was an example of a mystical community 2000 years ago, and then, of course, around the same time there were the scenes, they were very much a mystical community kind of living cloistered apart from the world they were living in the desert around them as Jesus. And for some time after them we have the Gnostics that were coming there after Jesus and really starting to. I mean one of the Gnostics beliefs was that the world wasn't real. That if you're going to have a community and that's going to be one of your premises, that's pretty close to the teachings of Jesus that that's right there. Gnosticism is right there. Jesus was the actual demonstration of God is real and the world is not. Sometimes people say that that's a little bit drastic. God is real and the world is not. Well, there's a part in the workbook of A Course in Miracles where Jesus says, if pain is real, there is no God, and if God is real there is no pain. Well, we know where these teachings are coming from this is, this is coming from absolute oneness this is coming coming from divine light. And Jesus says in lesson 132 of the workbook this this the central teaching of this course is that there is no world. Okay. No holds bar. I remember my friend rest of one day, you know came into when I was in my peace house and she sat down I fixed her cup of tea and she was going on and on like he's done it this time. He's gone too far. I said who she said Jesus has gone too far he's crossed the line he's over the line. He's, he's out of his mind. He's, he's lost it. I said, What are you referring to, she said I'm doing lesson 132. So then we prayed together and then she went to the bathroom and the angels gave her a song called as if, which if you want to go to the site music of Christ.net. She received like I don't know 270 songs from the angels and one of them, they're all alphabetized is right near the top is it's as if, as if there is no world as if there is no world, a cosmic scheme, a made up scheme where figures dance and swirl and nothing means a thing that I, that I am mind as God designed he's calling me to live as if there is no world, because that was my answer to her when she went on for like 15 minutes about lesson 132 I finally said well, she says, How can you even practice this this is ridiculous this is, it's way too far it shouldn't even be in the book.  He wants you to live in your heart. He wants you to live in your intuition. He wants to live in, live in your joy, live in your peace, live in, in that experience that's inside of you that's real and true as if there is no world and then let the Holy Spirit give you the guidance if you still need to say something or do something the Holy Spirit will give you the words or give you the he'll do the actions through you. But it's more like let the marionette be the marionette and you stay in your heart, you stay in the heart of love. You stay in the heart of spirit of God, and then you let everything emanate from the heart of who you are.  It's not your concern to live in the light is your focus to remember yourself as the light of the world is the focus. So you can see with the the scenes the apostles, the Gnostics and then as you move along in the timeline a little. Yeah, there's the Benedictines, the Benedictine monks. They were another cloistered community in the 500s that were very very devoted to fully living the teachings and the principles, fully living the Gospels.  Great example, another mystical community. A little bit. You have the Cathars in the Pyrenees great example of a very deep devoted mystical communities. And then you have the St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila in the, the 1500s 1540, 42, St. Teresa is forming a group of nuns that are living a mystical cloistered life, just devoted to the Divine Union with God. And it just continues on and on and on to the present day where we're having a zoom meeting using a movie, but what's in our heart is to have union with God that it's the same thing. You know, we're no different than anybody else. The technologies have changed. The planet seems to be a little different than it was back in the days in St. Francis, but really nothing significant has changed because our heart is still yearning for eternal life. Our heart is yearning for peace, yearning for joy, yearning for harmony. And today St. Francis and this beautiful movie from Franco Zafarelli is just helping us stir our heart up, stir our prayer, stir our passion for peace and harmony. So it's, it's beautiful. That's, that was the, the last topic on there is miss mystical community. And we're going to see that unfold. First, as St. Francis goes through his transformation, and he answers the calling of his heart. And then we start to see others around him. We see young men from Assisi, a lot of them were his friends. And then we'll see St. Claire Claire is a young woman who lives in Assisi she's watching the whole thing that St. Francis is going through and then she's going to jump in. And then, then a little whole mystical community is going to jump in. They're all jumping in toward the light. They're all just answering a call in their heart and letting that inner calling direct everything they think and say and do. And that's how it works. That's how spiritual transformation works. So, what a treat. You know, I, this is the obviously the first movie that jumped into my mind when we had these themes and I think you're just going to enjoy it. You're going to see that St. Francis will have to face the different beliefs and emotions of the ego. He will have to face betrayal and rejection and abandonment. He will have to face doubt thoughts that maybe he lost his way. Maybe this isn't the way he will have to face thoughts of whether he's just going for an experience or is this something that has to do with the world has to do with the future. That's the main concern that happens when you're awakening. You always have these doubt thoughts about the people and what is to come. In this case, the Catholic Church, he will have an encounter with the Pope. Pope innocent the third played by Alec Guinness in this movie. And how beautiful that in his life of devotion that St. Francis faces a doubt thought by going to visit a Pope whose name is innocent. That's the kind of reflections we need. We need reflections of innocence. That's what we want because God is innocence. God is joy. God is happiness. God is not a God of anger. God is not a God of sin. God is not an anthropomorphic God that's more human-like than God-like. God is 100% God-like. Let's talk about the original. Even original doesn't work because original seems to be the beginning, but the I am presence is it transcends beginnings and endings. Even original doesn't work. But Pope innocence, I have to say of all the Popes, I really like this guy because he likes to emphasize original innocence. I like that original blessing. Whoa. Now that's a Pope. That's the kind of Pope that you can light up with original innocence. And that's the reflection that St. Francis is going to draw a Pope who believes more in original innocence than church organization, then tradition, then rules. He's actually got a heart and he's got sparkly eyes too. When his heart gets really triggered, his sparkly eyes come out and that's a treat too. So sit back, enjoy the ride today because this is probably one of the most extreme examples of following your heart and following the Gospels and Jesus that you're going to see. And the soundtrack, the music for this is exquisite Donovan. These are all beautiful original songs. And, you know, if I don't know if you can even buy the soundtrack it's so mystical I don't even know if it was ever put out as a movie soundtrack. But if you have a tape recorder or you can put it on record on your computer or your iPhone, you can make your own soundtrack, Donovan soundtrack, because I tell you these songs will be with you now for the next weeks to come.  They are so beautiful. They are mystical. They stay in your mind. I know when I first saw this movie, I, I kept walking around like St. Francis and hearing this Donovan music for weeks. And I was glad to I was like, I don't know what happened there but this is really good stuff. So enjoy the movie and I'll pop in from time to time with a little bit of commentary but the movie speaks for itself. It's, it's a gem. It's a mess.


Hey, you know me, I know me. I am a boy with ADHD. I grew up with it, I deal with it now, and I'll deal with it for the rest of my life. What's this intro? I don't know. When I was in seventh grade, I finally sort of got diagnosed with ADHD. I don't know why I said sort of, I got diagnosed with ADHD slash ADD. I have not been on ADD medication for a really long time. And it's something that I'm thinking about going back on just because I have learned to cope with it a little bit better over the years. But I still have really, really bad ADD and ADHD. And it's extremely hard to focus. There's the sort of joke that I can't read, which obviously I can read. But I figured out over the last like a year, maybe two years that I'm also dyslexic, which definitely didn't help in school. But the whole thing of like, oh, I haven't read a book since junior year of high school. And a lot of people make jokes about it, which is totally fine. But I legitimately cannot sit down and read a book. It's something that is extremely frustrating. Anything over about a paragraph, I just have such a hard time processing the information, remembering the information, just having the attention span to read something and not get distracted. Anyway, all of that to say, I went on Amazon and I got a pack of 30. Oh, baby, 30 plus ADD toys. That's the thumbnail, what I just did there. So I thought that I'd go through and look at these different things and sort of rate it from one to 10 on how good of an ADD toy there is. Let's start off with something familiar, something that you guys know. Ooh, that crinkle, that crackle. Hey, Rubik's Cube. This is actually, nope, nevermind, it's shitty.  Let me grab my good one. Oh yeah, let me show you the difference between a good cube and a bad cube. This is a good cube. This is what a good cube sounds like. And the way that it moves too. Nice. This is a bad cube. You can sort of hear the spring. And while it may not seem a lot different, it is. It feels drastically different. Rubik's Cubes are something that I really love. I learned to do a Rubik's Cube when I was probably 12 or 13, I think. And it was something that actually really helped me a lot in school. And I started bringing Rubik's Cubes to school and during times when the teacher would be speaking and I didn't have to be writing or anything like that, I would do a Rubik's Cube. It was not something that I was really aware of. It was just something that I really liked doing, but it's something that helped me focus a lot because I had something to do with my hands. And so all of my teachers, which a part of me gets because it is marketed as a toy or whatever. But they were like, Ethan, you can't be doing that in class. It also makes a little bit of noise so it could be distracting to some of the other kids. But none of the teachers really understood that by me doing the Rubik's Cube, I was actually able to listen way better because I had something to put my energy into. Therefore, my mind was a little bit more open. I don't know. I don't know how noticeable it is, but even right now as I'm doing this, I feel like it's easier for me to actually speak and say coherent sentences and stuff like that. Rubik's Cubes are something that have really helped me a lot. I really enjoy doing them. It's just a fun thing to do and it was a fun thing to learn. And it also sort of becomes after a while almost like a muscle memory thing. I can't do it as well as I used to be able to do it, but it's all just algorithms and stuff like that. So doing certain moves at a certain time when the pieces are in a certain spot. So it's not something that you need to really think about, which is why it was good for me when I needed to focus on something else. Rubik's Cube, I'll give it an eight out of 10. Eight out of 10, I love these babies. They're wonderful, but it also is, it's not something that you sort of have to pay attention to it a little bit. Like you can't be like looking at something else and doing a Rubik's Cube. So, you know, this, I don't know what this is. I'm really not sure what this is. Weird ball thing, there's a hole there. I don't know if that's supposed to be there or not. These little balls, they turn a little bit. I don't really like this. It feels weird. I think you just push it in and replace the hole with a ball. I don't really like it because it's not smooth. It kind of, it takes a lot of pressure and force. It feels very janky. I understand why people could like this, I guess, but I don't, I don't really like it. I'm going to give this a three out of 10. I don't like it. Here's a, oh, this is something different than I thought it was going to be. I thought that this was going to be one of the, is it a Chinese finger trap where you put your fingers in and you trap it? But there's a little, I don't know how well you can see it, but there's a little marble in there. And so you just push, push the marble around. That's kind of cool, kind of fun. It's not, I mean, it kind of feels nice. This is turning into way more of a serious video than I thought it was going to be. I thought this was going to be very jokey and fun.  I don't know. And it's small so you can fit it in your pocket pretty easy. I don't think I would play with this though. It doesn't, it doesn't do much for me. I'll give this a four out of 10 because it's better, I'll give it a five. It's better than the ball thing. All right, next is this. I don't know what this is and it makes me uncomfortable. It's just a stretchy thing.  And it's also really bad for the environment. Ah, this is kind of fun though. I just wish I didn't have glitter on it. There's two of them. There's a green one and a pink one. Um, it's okay. Like it's kind of fun. It's also very, it's very powdery, which I don't like. I don't really like the feel of it. I wouldn't imagine this to be like a fidget toy. Like what do you do with this? I don't know. To me, like a nice fidgety toy, this isn't feely enough for me. Like there's, it's not, I don't know. I don't know. It's too much, it's too much. Three out of 10. My guy, my dude, what is this?  You stretch him. This isn't a fidget toy. What is this shit? I don't like it. It's just a little man. One out of 10. That one's the worst of them all. I think I found a worst thing. Let's make that a two out of 10. Cause this seems way worse. I don't even want to open this. What is this? It's like a weird bug. I don't even want to open it. It's got like gunk inside. One out of 10.  You know, the like moon sand? I don't really want to take it out though cause I'm afraid that it's going to get everywhere. I'm too worried about it. Hold on, I'll deal with that in a second. Okay. This has potential if I can figure out what it is. This is like a weird little thing. Push some of the pieces out. What do you do? What do you do with this? It had potential. And now all the potential is gone. What is it? So you have it here, right? You can push out the orange part, but then you can't push anything else out unless that's all it is, it's just pushing out the orange thing. I could understand that cause you're taking the thing out and putting it back in and taking it out and it's that repetitive thing, but it's not easy enough to push in and out. Three out of 10, once again. All right, here's something that I might be able to get behind. Oh, babe.  Ready for this? Watch.  Oh, that's sick. I love this thing. It's cool too, because it's got this little nub, which I like it when it's on the palm of my hand cause then I have something solid. Oh my God, this is so good. Oh, and it has the little things and it just like forms around your hand so nice. This is great. This is so good. Eight out of 10. Also, I'm treating 10 like a unicorn in the sense that like, there's probably not gonna be a 10. Eight or above is like really good. I'm gonna move my Rubik's cube to a nine and I'm gonna put this at an eight and a half. Actually, I'm gonna put this at a nine as well because Rubik, just for different reasons. This is so good. This is so great. Oh my God, I love it. All right, let's just get all of these shitty ones out of the way. All of these, the weird bug things. They're just like squishy weird things that have like slime on them and I really don't like them at all. So one out of 10 for those. Okay, so we have a ball version of this. So it's a sphere. I'm gonna take out the blue piece and I think that's it. What is the point? None of these other pieces move. Am I just doing it wrong? What's the point of it? I don't understand. Or do you have to do it? Whoa. Do you have to do it in a certain way? You do. It's a puzzle. It's a puzzle. Okay, I've got all these pieces, right? Now we have to put them back together. I don't know if I'll like this. It's a puzzle. Gamers, it's a puzzle. Very interesting. It's interesting. I didn't figure out the puzzle four out of 10. I could see the appeal, but I don't wanna do a puzzle. That's not the fidgety cube. It's not a fidgety. It's not fidgety. It's a puzzle. But this, but this is fidgety. A classic fidget spinner. Ooh, that's nice too. It's nice cause it's got these little ball bearings on the outside.  But they did really help people with ADHD and like they definitely were helpful. For me back when I used them a little bit, it sucks that a lot of schools like ban them just because they were seen as like little toys and stuff. But it does help to just, this is a classic just like fidget thing. Cause all you're doing is this and it does really help. Fidget spinners pretty good. Give it an eight out of 10. This one's good too. It's got good bearings on it. We got another fidget spinner in here. Two of them. Same thing. Different colors. Wow. I like that sound. See, a lot of these again are not really fidget things. I'm not really sure what this is. Kind of like it though. The way that it sounds is really nice. Yeah. It's almost like cracking knuckles. But again, not really fidgety. Not really fidgety. I'm a little disappointed with this box guys because most of this stuff is not very fidgety. Give this a five out of 10. It's okay. It makes a nice sound. Let's go with a six. Let's do six. All right. We got this box here. I'm thinking that just because of the packaging maybe it's a kaleidoscope. But again, it would not really make sense. It's a kaleidoscope. No, it's not. It's one of these. This isn't a fidget toy. It just looks cool. Damn. Look at that. In that nice. Wow. Wow. I remember these. I think I had one as a kid that had like a little like whale in it or something. Ooh, and then at the bottom, they all drip down. Yeah. Kind of cool. Four out of 10. It's not a fidget thing. We are now coming to some of the last things. Which are these? I am not really sure what these are. It's like a key chain thing that just goes in and out and in and out. Can you play with it with one hand? Yeah, ooh. That's kind of fun too. Ooh, yeah. Just having it on your finger and just like kind of shaking it a little bit. That's nice. Gonna give this a seven out of 10. Eight out of 10. Seven out of 10. Seven and a half. We'll do seven and a half. Cause it's easy to use with one hand. It's pretty good actually. There's one more thing in here that, well, not in here. I got this in addition because I wanted it. It wasn't included in the box. It's a butterfly trainer knife. It's not an actual butterfly knife. It's a trainer. This is dull. But I used to use these babies all the time because you just flip it around all the time. And it's really fun. It's very much a fidgety thing. Very much a fidgety. I would kill myself if it was a real knife, which is why it's not a real knife. I used to be able to do cool tricks. And now not really. I used to be able to do like a cool like... Oh, I can still kind of do it. There we go. Wow. Fun time. There's somebody here in the comments that actually knows butterfly knives and is screaming at me. I know this to be true. I do have a couple more things. And by a couple more things, I think I have one more thing. And it is very good. I have two more things. Three more things. Two more things really. Cause this is just a fidget spinner that I have that I found in my drawer and I like it a lot. I also like it cause it's pink. Okay, I have this, which is just a spiky ball. Little spiky ball, but it feels cool in your hands. It feels so nice. I think my mom gave this to me. Am I stalking at Christmas last year? This is pretty good. Seven out of 10, just because you kind of need two hands for it to be super good, you know? But lastly, I have this, which is a little fidget cube, which I think one of you guys gave me at a convention actually. It's got a bunch of different things on it. And I'm sure a lot of you guys know about these. So there's this little thing around here. These go around. There's a switch. There's like a joystick kind of thing. There's these buttons that have different like sensitivities almost.  It's, it's fun. It's nice cause it has a bunch of different stuff on it. I imagine it would probably get annoying for the people around you, but it's nice to just use. Eight out of 10, nine out of 10, nine out of 10, nine out of 10. Anyway, that's the box. Little disappointed, to be honest. I was really hoping for more stuff. Not more stuff, better stuff. I was hoping that like, I don't know. I feel like all of the stuff in here just kind of sucked.  But everything else kind of sucked, which is a bummer, big, big bummer. Anyway, this was my review of the 32 box item thing of fidgety things for people with the brains that go, whoa, everything's happening all the time. Kind of helpful. I like it, I like it, I like it. Anywho, thank you guys so much for watching. Let me know what your thoughts are. Let me know if any of you have ADD or ADHD.  Anyway, thank you so much for watching. See you later. Maybe I'll be able to read someday. What is on my crank crew?


I have received word of a strange invention. What it can do will amaze France and strike terror to the world. 2000 plus. Science fiction adventures from the world of tomorrow. The years beyond. 2000 AD. 2000 plus presents The Insect. Miss Darling, it means I'll probably get that research appointment at the university. Oh, I can hardly believe it, George. Oh, here's the telegraph of the dean of science himself. I'll take the jet plane in about two hours and be there in plenty of time for my meeting this afternoon. I know. I'll get a bottom of champagne and we'll celebrate a dinner tonight. Well, that's nice, but I'm not sure I'll be home for dinner. The meeting may go on. Maybe I'll have to stay overnight, take the plane back in the morning. Well, then we'll have champagne for breakfast. Well, let's not hope too much. Hey, hey, hey, I've got to gather my papers and things but I'm going to get to the airport in time. You'd better help me. In your laboratory? The wife of a budding scientific genius shouldn't act like that. But, George, I'm frightened when I go in there. Nonsense. They won't hurt you. No, I can't stand insects. That's why I stay out of your lab. I've got to have help with these papers. What do you want me to do? Cancel the meeting because my wife is afraid of the work I do? Oh, I'm sorry, darling. It's just... All right, all right. I'll try to do it myself. Don't be angry, George. If they were ordinary insects, tiny ones would... maybe it would be different. Even with what I've done to them, they're not so big. So I've taken a spider, a housefly and a wasp and by means of my growth ray, I've made them larger. The spider still isn't any bigger than my fist. The housefly is about as large as a pack of cigarettes. The wasps are no bigger than my golf ball. They're not giant. But they look so horrible when they're even that big. Easier to observe and study. That's why the university is interested in my work. With the long-term appointment and the grant to amplify the growth ray, maybe I can really increase the size of the insect. Imagine a fly as big as a horse. That would be some horse fly. Hey, that's a joke. All right, George. I'll help you. It's only the papers we're packing. You won't have to go near the insect cages. Do you have any pointed ones in here? No? Only Sam. He's in the glass cage by those books. I don't want to look. Maybe if you'd look, you wouldn't have such ridiculous ideas. Sam is a nice guy. He just swaps and spares. Looks like a wise old man. If I look, I can see all those legs. There's a wolf. Okay, okay. Now the notebook, please. Hey, hey, hey, be careful. Thanks. Well, what's the matter? That machine is very delicate. You almost touched it. Oh, the growth ray? I don't want that running while I'm gone. Oh, really? I can't wait to get out of here. I'll see now. I've got everything. Yep. Well, that does it. Come on. After you meet cheddar-stricken beauties, hope when we get to the university, if I get the appointment, you'll keep your disgusted insects to yourself. A wife is supposed to build up her husband's work, faculty-wise, do that all the time. Don't argue with me now. I just can't help the way I feel. Sam should really be fed while I'm gone. Stop it! I'm not going in there. All right. All right. What about Pete the housefly? He's not spoiling it. You'll feed your insects when you get home. Now hurry up. The urge will be made. Sure. Well, goodbye. George, I don't want you to leave when you're annoyed like that. I'm sorry, darling. I really love you. But I love my insects, too. Please, you order. Oh, hello, Bill. Right in here. Okay. David? Uh, please. The changes are better this time than they were last. Oh, Mr. Ginkelheim said to tell you that these oranges are swell. Well, I'll know when I squeeze them for breakfast. Oh, thank you, Bill. Oh, is Mr. Martin home? Mr. Martin? No, he isn't, Bill. Why? Well, he was going to show me his bugs. Oh, you don't want to look at them. A pair of dreadfuls. I find them very interesting. Mr. Martin said he'd take me into his lab today. That's why I delivered your order first. I was anxious to see them. Oh, Mr. Martin was called away suddenly. He got a telegram and had to leave almost at once. But he'll be home tomorrow. Tomorrow I've got to work at the other store, the one on North Street. Well, in a few days then. And the bugs will still be here, Bill. Mrs. Martin, would it be too much trouble if you let me peek at them? I never go into Mr. Martin's laboratory. I won't hurt me. Then just peek. I was kind of looking forward to seeing them and... Oh, it's a hard place to build that laboratory. You wait till Mr. Martin gets home. Sure, Mrs. Martin, if you say so. Well, no, no. You look so glum. What you men see in those revolving creatures, I'll never know. They're scary. They're so big. I feel funny when I look at them. Then Mr. Martin explains about science and stuff, and it's really interesting. Would you like to be a scientist, Bill? I sure would. Well, I suppose I ought to encourage that I won't go through in, but you can peek. You know where the door is. Oh, thanks, Mrs. Martin. Thanks very much. But don't touch anything. I won't. I better put these brushes away. Wasn't he the last time? I don't know. We must get out of here. Let's move in the corner. Interested in your growth, Ray? As dean of science, I want to be certain that this university encourages brilliant young scholars who are experimenting in new fields of research. I understand that. At the same time, I must be satisfied that the research will be of fundamental value. Yes, sir. Now, I suppose you thought for a while. Tell me about your work. Well, I have always been interested in the effective environment on organisms. I know the environmental factors, the universal conditions applicable to all organisms. For example, for air, temperature, humidity, light, and so forth. And then I approach each of these conditions from the point of view of its specific effects on organisms. I discovered that the presence or absence of light gave me the widest variance of reaction. Oh, excuse me. In what way the widest variance? When the effects on physical growth change adaptation, I think. You see, sir, because light is a general term, I broke its definition down into all known rays, infrared, ultraviolet, so forth, and studied reactions of organisms to those rays in every conceivable combination. Now, after two years, I evolved a theory that if certain rays could be combined electronically and concentrated on living organisms for specified periods of time, their growth would be greatly stimulating. And you have constructed such a machine? Yes, I have. The electrodynospectrum, the growth ray machine. What have you accomplished with it so far? I've multiplied the growth of certain insects many times. My present machine is small and homemade, and its power is not too great. But so far, I've increased the size of a fly to that of a pack of cigarettes, the size of a spider to that of my fist. What kind of spider? A tarantula. It's a very dangerous and poisonous insect to work with. While being a tropical spider, it might be more receptive to light. Its size has tripled. Tell me, Mr. Martin, what is the optimum increase in size that you've so far obtained? About eight times with the fly. The size increase varies with the insects. There's a lot of research yet to be done. Yes, so I can see. You will certainly work with the imagination. Think of your having the kind of equipment that will benefit a 20, 50, 100, or even a thousand-fold increase in an insect's size.  Imagine this university needing lion cages to contain its giant insect. Well, there's no limit to what new things we could learn about all manner of organisms with a growth rate, not just insects. That's right. Mr. Martin, I'd like you to stay on another few hours so that we can talk some more. I'd be very happy to. Perhaps you'd like your phone your wife, but you'll be a bit late. Thank you, sir. You can use the phone in the other office. And Mr. Martin? Yes. When she asks you how everything's going, you tell her that it's going just fine. What do we do? I don't know. Where will Mr. Martin come home? This afternoon, tonight? Maybe not until tomorrow. Oh. Maybe he'll come home. No. No, he'll think I'm out shopping. Oh, this is... Mrs. Martin. Oh, here's the telephone. It scares her. Is George calling home? I doesn't even realize something has happened. Why doesn't he call the neighbors of the police? I think I am the last member of the faculty committee who wants you to see. Oh, sit down, won't you? Oh, thank you, Professor Bradley. Yes, I think I'm going all afternoon for one appointment with the other. And all of us are happy to talk with you. The dean is quite excited about your reception, though. Yes, I'm very pleased about that. Professor Bradley, I hope you won't take me rude at the beginning of our meeting, but I wonder if I might use your phone. Of course. Mr. Martin, is something wrong? No, I don't think so, but I've phoned my wife several times until I was staying on all afternoon and there's been no answer. Oh, I'm sure there's nothing wrong about it. It means Carl, the phone is right there. Thank you. I'll let you eight, four, five, seven, two and reverse the charges, please. Thank you. I'll let it ring a few more times. Please keep trying. I'll call you, sir. Thank you. I can't understand it. It's not like Betty to be away so long. Excuse me, it's not. Face this one night, but the whole room is flooded with sunlight since the shade went up. I mean, this corner behind this chair doesn't give us the protection we need. Why? Martin's too big to get out of here. That's a spider. He's on the rock, under the chair. I'll take off my shoes. There's nothing to hit it with. If it comes, now you take one of them. It's going to fly again. You may hear it too. I don't know. Here it comes. It might be later. Even stay overnight. She may have gone to her mother's. It was a real pleasure finding a young man who cares that much for his wife. I suppose Mrs. Martin feels the same way about you. Oh, Betty's wonderful. I'm sure she is. After all, not many women would approve their husbands inventing machines that make insects larger. You've got a rare wife, Mr. Martin, one who doesn't object to giant insects in the house. That's very interesting. Oh, you mustn't say... No, why? But somehow, yes. I know that you find your association with us a real incentive to carrying on your work with a regrowth rate. I'm sure of that. I'll do my very best to be accredited to the university and to scientific research. Well, my boy, it's time for you to leave. If you want to catch the 610 and be home with your wife, you just get home and you'll find that there's an explanation for why she didn't answer the phone all day. I'm sure you're right. Thank you, Gendine. Thank you very much. I'll reach the window. The window? I think I can make a run for the window once I push the chair aside. But he might attack you. For me? Well, maybe he won't. But he really will. Come on, there's no way. I've been to either of us if he did attack me. I would be eaten alive with more of these all sorts of things. George would know exactly. I had a whole group of clothes ruined last year. Everything. I can bite him. Chair around a little, squeeze by between the chair and the wall and make a dash for the window. Give me my shoes. The spider.  Besides, you had nothing. You see, darling, the adult moth doesn't eat. It has no mouth.  Despite its size, cacophagatapatella, the clothes moth, it's utterly harmless. Could have waited without worrying is that a moth cannot live more than six hours in sunlight. You see, dear, all this horror was unnecessary. The silver rocket had an unseen visitor from space. Be sure to listen to 2000 Plus, Radio's Different Series. 2000 Plus is produced by Dreyer and Winolton Productions Incorporated. In today's cast, Joan Shae portrays Betty, Mary Robinson the Bill, Ralph Bells, George, and Bill Griffiths was the dean. Music composed and played by Muffin K. Sound, Alejo, and George Cunney. Engineer Bob Albrecht, this is Ken Marvin speaking.