Welcome to Hope Today. It is a week of hope. It is holy week where we celebrate the passion of Jesus Christ and his death, his burial, his resurrection, all that. And we are gearing up towards that. I'm Tom Hollis. I'm here with Amanda Brocker. Amanda, you're gonna be sharing with us. Tell us a little bit. I am, you know, I was just thinking about, you know, this Easter sitting at the dinner table with the family and being able to have a conversation about Jesus and really solidifying our faith, building a strong foundation so that way as we share with others, it's gonna make them think and they're gonna ponder Jesus as the Passover lamb. That's right. Absolutely. Important discussion for us to have and important for us to think about. And just a little bit, we're gonna have a conversation with Dr. Brad Harrow by the chance to talk to him earlier. He is gonna share with us about truth and what does truth mean and what do we say to someone that probably maybe relative to yours, you might see at Easter time, what do you say to someone who doesn't even accept the concept of truth? They have their own truth. Well, there's a lot there and you know, we just wanna invite you to be part of that, stay with us for that. That's right. And we also wanna invite you to invite others to Easter service. If you know where you're going, then please reach out to those that God would lay on your heart and invite them to go. A lot of times people will say yes, just because it's Easter. Yeah, you know, I've spent a lot of my life talking about how to share the gospel and how to lead someone to Christ and have done a lot of evangelism myself. But you know, one of the greatest ways to evangelize if you wanna call it that is to just invite someone to church with you. Just bring them along. So many people that I, when I ask, if I'm teaching on a Wednesday night or something and I ask that and say, how did you come to Christ? Well, almost at least three quarters of the people that respond, someone just invited him to church and they came and they heard the gospel maybe for the first time or maybe for the 100th time, but whatever time it was, they finally responded to it and finally it came to know Jesus as their Lord and savior. Amen, so it is time. And today, if you don't know Jesus as your Lord and savior, then we want you to know him. It is the most important relationship that you can possibly have. We have prayer partners standing by. You can give us a call, but I would listen to the content of this program before you call. That's right. So we've got several things going on here today. We're gonna have this great conversation in just a moment with Dr. Brad Herob. You're gonna wanna hear that. We are also going to be sharing with you. 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If you want to strengthen the ministry of CTVN, share your best gift by visiting us online at ctvn.org slash donate or call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thank you for your partnership. Hope happens here. Our next guest currently serves as the executive director of Focus Press and co-editor of Think Magazine. Dr. Brad Harib travels the world speaking on Christian evidences, fortifying the family and cultural apologetics. Dr. Brad, welcome to Hope Today. It's great to be here, Tom. Well, let me ask you, what do you see talking about apologetics, about defense of the faith? What areas right now in our society now are we really needing to give an answer to people that ask? I would say probably just truth. You know, where does truth come from? If you were to ask somebody on the street, hey, what is truth and where does it come from? A lot of times you're gonna get people talking about emotion or coming from the heart or feelings. They don't realize that truth comes ultimately from God's word, John 1717. Without having an absolute foundation in truth, then basically everybody kind of has their own version of the truth. And I think that's kind of where our culture is today. Well, that's what you hear all the time. My truth, your truth, it always grates on me, doesn't it? Yeah, it's like, well, yeah, but what about the truth? Absolutely. And so let me ask you, you know, we have a society now that it seems to have shifted from the base of even believing that there is truth. Where do you start with a person like that? Where do you start with a society like that? So to me, you know, I kind of look at Paul's example when he was talking to the scholars at Areopagus, basically you have to establish the fact that there is a God, one God, and then that the Bible is his word, that it is inspired. Because if you don't get those two things clearly, firmly established, then all you're gonna be doing is butting heads, sharing opinions, maybe even allowing their emotion to get into the debate. If you establish the fact that, hey, there is a God, here's what he expects, here's what he wants, here's his will, then all of a sudden, things become a lot more black and white. And we have an ally called the Holy Spirit. Absolutely, absolutely. Because we can't argue someone into the kingdom of God. It's gotta be the drawing of the Holy Spirit.  And I think we're seeing in our culture today, I think it's really getting bigger and bigger. I think there's lots and lots of attacks, especially in our colleges, universities, young people are just getting bombarded. And we need to arm them, we need to give them the tools to where they can accurately and adequately defend the faith. And then a couple of generations ago, there would have been this undercurrent of Christianity. Even if people weren't Christians or were far away from God, there would be like a respect for the Bible. And that seems to have just been taken completely away. So you have to really back up a lot, don't you, and start from square zero. If you had gone and knocked on 10 doors in your neighborhood 30, 40 years ago, probably eight of those folks would say, hey, I'm a believer, I believe in God.  Today, if you knocked on 10 doors, first off, you better be wearing bulletproof vest or something, but if you knocked on 10 doors, you might be lucky to get two or three who would openly admit, hey, yeah, I believe in God.  Yeah, let me ask you about another angle on something that we've talked about that you do, because there's so many ways God has a key, I think, for every heart. But God is using coffee. Tell me about coffee and your ministry. So my wife and I opened a coffee shop in Columbia, Tennessee, Cabin Coffee, and we are using that as a ministry to people, as an outreach, a tool for evangelism. At the end of the day, people will study the Bible, they will pray or allow you to pray for them in a coffee shop where they may never, you've done some street evangelism. And you know, the immediate defense often people will build a wall. For sure. Walking into that coffee shop, I think the wall actually comes down and they're a lot more receptive to talking about God, talking about scriptures, that kind of thing. Is it a chemical reaction? Believe it or not. So there has been research done that the aroma, the smell does actually do something neurologically. It does something to me, that's for sure. I can completely attest to that. Absolutely, and we roast on site, so we're really, really putting it kind of on steroids, so to speak. But that really is, it's kind of a cool thing that God does in getting past defenses. Look, the preaching of the gospel is preeminent, but to get through that wall, like you talked about. Absolutely, absolutely. I'll give you a real quick example. A lady came up to the counter and I greeted her like I do most people, and she said, hey, how are you doing today? And I could tell instantly, she was not having a good day, and she just kind of looked at me and she said, I'm fine. And I looked at her and I paused and I said, how are you really doing? And she said, I'm not doing real good. And she went on to share how they'd had to put their dog down that they'd had for so long. And I stopped her and I said, would you mind if I pray for you? And you would have thought I gave her $1,000 at the counter, she wasn't expecting it. It was something that really, really spoke to her heart. And so we use opportunities like that to really try and reach people and take that wall down. Yeah, I think that that's a fantastic lesson for us all to remember that that kind of moment of love that we can show really makes difference. Dr. Brad, thank you so much for all that you do. Thanks, Tom, I appreciate you. Yeah, well, we'll be right back with more of the program right after this. Are you tired of just getting bills in your mailbox? Find inspiration instead by subscribing to the Cornerstone Television's Hope Today newsletter. Each month we'll deliver good news about what God is doing in our region and world through CTVN's ministry. We'll keep you in the know about our latest special programming and our full program guide will keep you connected to all your favorites. You'll also find a new dashing dish recipe every month. As you read our Hope Today newsletter, stay encouraged knowing your generosity and giving to CTVN is making a difference and building God's kingdom. We can't do it without you. 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I've got a scripture I want to share with you and then a man is going to share a little bit about what God's laid on our heart. But first listen to this. First Peter 315, this is in the new living translation. Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks you about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it. I love this, Amanda, because it's not, I don't have to explain anything about my feelings. I don't have to explain in like a collegiate way or anything. I just need to explain the hope that is within me. And God gives us the ability to do that. That's right.  Yeah, Dr. Brad did that. Yes, with someone. And I really do believe like the defenses come down. You don't want to throw pearl before swine. Like pearl means this God, good news that we have to give. And like, we need to work with the Holy Spirit.  We might want them to. And I feel that oftentimes we can jam the word down someone's throat. We want them to be free more than they want to be free. We want them saved more than they want to be saved. So we have to have some patience with our family and loved ones as the Holy Spirit moves them and work with the Lord. I just think that that is a gift he's given us to discern that where a person is and when they're ready and then let our mouth open when it's supposed to. I know this because I did this in my own household and God's word works. And he can, we can trust him with our most cared possessions, which are the people that sit at our table. But I was just thinking about Easter, you know, you're going to have your family around the table. And these are just some spiritual truths that I have learned from God's word that I think would be awesome for you to be able to share with your family. And just as it says in John 1717 that Dr. Brad referred to, that God's word is the truth. So that's what I'm going to share with you today that you'll have these tools to even give to your family. I don't know if you've ever looked up in on the computer, it's a plant called Hisop, H-Y-S-S-O-P. But it's used in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. And I love how the imagery, you know, so that we can fully see God was so intentional with every scripture in our Bible. And if we look at Exodus 12, it's the moment where Moses goes to Pharaoh the 10th time and the 10th plague is going to be released upon them. But there were instructions that the Lord gave from Exodus 12, verses 21 and 22. It says, There's something so significant about this. And my friend, Sue Ellen Watt, is who brought this to my attention. She loves the Lord and my eyes just opened. You know, the logos, it became Ramah. Like, I see it, I got it. So now we're going to go into the New Testament. Go to John 19. And this is verses 28 to 30. It says, A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a Hissot branch and held it up to his lips. When Jesus had tasted it, he said, it is finished. Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. And y'all, I don't know if you're seeing what I saw, but they use the Hissot that last day of Passover, the last plague before it was being released and those instructions and to dip the blood of the lamb with that Hissot and put it on the door. And then you see Jesus hanging on a cross and they're dipping once again with this Hissot branch and placing it up on the door. The doorway is Jesus. It says in John 10, nine and 10, yes, I am the gate or the door. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and we'll find good pastors. The thief's purpose is to steal, kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. And I think that it is so important that we reflect on Christ as that doorway, as that Passover lamb, Tom, while we sit with our family that we can see the complete work that Jesus has done. Well, you can see the imagery, the symbolism. Now this was a real lamb and something that really happened the time of the Exodus and something God was doing but there's a symbolism there, isn't there? There's a symbolism that applies to us now and God throughout all of scripture is looking forward to the pivot point of history and that's Jesus' death, burial and resurrection on the cross, what we're gonna be celebrating this weekend but it all points to that. And so that's the thing is when that, Amanda, they took that bunch of hyssop and they went in and they dipped it in the blood and they put it on the doorpost. You know, a pastor friend of mine was sharing when he was a young man and he was talking to an old saint of God about, you know, recurring sin and battles of sin and feeling condemned and the old saint said to him, a minister said to him, young man, if that blood on the doorpost could keep away of the death angel, Jesus' blood can forgive your sins and give you the victory in those things. And so we always need to remember that. These, this is a looking forward. It was a real thing that happened or did what they were supposed to do and they were saved at that time but it's a symbol also looking forward to what Christ did for us. That's right and when you think about, you know, we learn in the New Testament about the rebirth, were to be born again and when you think of that moment in history when the Israelites were held in slavery in Egypt there, this was their moment of being free. And as that angel of death went through, all the firstborn of all the Egyptians died but the Israelites who had the blood on the door and were within the door, it said, don't come out. So when you find yourself in Christ, don't come out. Don't go away, we're, don't go away from him.  It cannot come near you. But when I think about the Israelites coming out of Egypt when this is another image within the Bible when the waters parted and he made a way for the Israelites to go through the waters to the other side. It was like a rebirth thing, like the birth canal.  And you know, we are just like the Israelite people because they, after seeing this, they still get on the other side and they're pondering how this happened, why this happened, saying we wanna go back. I'm like, oh God deliver us from our humanity. But the reality is we have this wonderful opportunity to place our trust in Jesus, to find ourself in the doorway that we've gone through and have his covering, his protection over us. And it truly is the miracle of salvation. It is, isn't it interesting that in that when the blood was on the doorposts, certain people were protected, the Israelites, those that put that on there. But there were people that died. A man had just talked about the firstborn of all the Egyptians died. Not everyone is gonna make it. The scripture says that. My question to you is, are you gonna be, are you gonna be one that makes it?  God desires you to do that. He's made a way for all to make it. His hands are open to all, but not everyone responds. The Bible's very clear about that, that not all will respond. But we don't have to worry about that today. All we need to talk about is you and me. Will we respond today? I have responded to the Lord. I need to continue to respond to the Lord. In fact, Amanda, there's a scripture I wanted to share that says, Christ, our Passover lamb has been sacrificed for us. You can see this bringing it around. That's 1 Corinthians 5, the second half of verse seven. That is where Christ is, the sacrifice lamb for us. So you see, this is, even though it was something that was real and something they needed to do, it was a type of who Christ was going to be for us, that he was going to take away. What did John say? Behold the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. He didn't say, behold the eagle of God. Behold the lion of, he didn't say that because Jesus could have been the lion, but then we would die in our sins. No, he was the lamb. He was the one who gave himself up, who died on that cross for us that we can be forgiven. Praise God. Praise God. Look at the humility of Christ, the humility of God to come and offer himself as a lamb for us. It's just amazing, Amanda. The very first prayer that God instructed the Israelites to pray, it's called the shaman. It's a prayer that's in Deuteronomy and it talks about us loving the Lord with our whole self, our mind, our heart, our soul, our strength, but it says to share that word with your children. And I think these moments of conversation, if you bring that into the New Testament, it's in Mark 12 and it's the same thing, that question being asked of what's the most important commandment and it is loving the Lord your God with all your heart, your soul, your mind, your strength, but loving your neighbor as yourself. So it went from just your family to your neighbor. I think the Lord is desiring for us to have those conversations about his word. I think sometimes we're so eager to talk about the sports team, March Madness, or what the weather is. And sometimes those can be ice breakers, but ultimately the Lord desires for us to talk about his word. And so I encourage you today to maybe pull out a picture of Hisop and just ask anyone at the table, does anybody know what this is? And then go into the story of how it was used in Exodus and then how it was used in the New Testament in John. And I believe as you have this conversation and just bringing to light the glory that Jesus has just portrayed, that the eyes of the understanding right within your own household, they will see what they could not see. I know we're gonna pray for that for your family here at Cornerstone. We desire to see every member of every household represented to be seated at the table when Jesus returns for us. We don't want anyone missing. So we encourage you today. And as Tom said, if that is you, if that is your heart that is saying, you know, I haven't really decided to follow him. Oh, what a wonderful season to begin following him during this Passover time where we're reflecting on his deliverance of not just the Jewish people from slavery and bondage in Egypt, but from the believers today who find themselves bound with shackles that the enemy has wrapped around them. But as Tom said, the blood of Jesus, is it not enough? Yes it is. It is enough to break the chains that the enemy has wrapped around you. So there's no addiction that he cannot break. There is no sin that he cannot break. It's what he came was to destroy the works that sin created. And he has that for you today. So surrender your life to him.  He loves you so much. So do that. Open the door of your heart. You have a responsibility of this. It's just to respond, that's all. Jesus has done everything. He's sacrificed himself. He's given himself completely for you, for your salvation, for your family salvation, for your neighbor's salvation, for all mankind's salvation. All we have to do, our only duty here is to respond to the love of God. The love of God has extended to you like a father reaching out to a child running up and we can be forgiven of our sins and we can be right with God and we can run into that embrace of God not having to run away from it.  Open the door of your life. Give your heart to Christ. Ask for forgiveness. He will forgive, he will restore, he will fill you with the Holy Spirit and give you the strength to walk and you will see this holy week in a newness of life. Have a great and wonderful day today. On tomorrow's Hope Today, learn to stop striving and start living. Bible teacher and author Kyle Winkler encourages you to live victoriously in Christ by teaching you to strive less, stress less and sin less. That's tomorrow on Hope Today. Cornerstone Television wishes to thank all our faithful viewers whose consistent prayers and financial support have made this program possible.


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The man, Chester. What's wrong about him? Oh, well, he drove up to the long branch in a wagon and got down and went inside, and then he come back up. And then do you know what he did? And he drove off? No, sir. He's still there. What did he do, Chester? Well, he got a big old rifle out of his wagon and he loaded it. Then he put it under his arm and he's been walking up and down ever since. It's like he's waiting to shoot somebody. There. See him, Mr. Dillon? That tall, rangy fellow there. Yeah. See how he keeps looking up and down the street? Come on.  Well, I don't know, but it's worth asking him. Well, he sure picked a fine spot right across from the jail. Yeah, well, I'm glad he did.  Have you ever seen him before? No, sir. He's a stranger to me. He looks real country, though, don't he? Yeah, but he's not poor. That's a good wagon he's got. Looks brand new to me. Yeah. All right, stand aside now, huh? Yes, sir. Don't recall you, Mr. And my name is Dillon. Oh? I'm the Marshal here. Oh! Why, sure. I knew I'd heard that name, Dillon. Pleased to meet you. Well, this is Chester Proudfoot. Hello, Chester. How you doing? I'm Willie Calhoun, Marshal. I don't get to dodge but sell them, not to late. Well, you live around here? Got me a little place out at Spring Point. It's doing fine. I, uh, noticed you got a new wagon. Well, that's for Pearl. I wanted her to be proud. Hey, your wife? No. No Pearl Bender, Marshal. She's gonna be my wife. That's what I come to town for. I made up my mind. She works in the long branch here, doesn't she? I'm waiting for her to come along now. I made up my mind, Marshal. Is that what the rifle's for? What do you mean? Well, you've made up your mind, but maybe she hasn't. Oh, no. No, it ain't like that at all. I wouldn't force Pearl into nothing. Then what is the rifle for? Man's got a right to carry a rifle.  Now come on, tell me the truth, Calhoun. There ain't nobody gonna stop me and Pearl, Marshal. Well, why should they? They might try. Who might? I fight my own fights, Marshal. Now, I'm not here, you don't, not with a gun. I'll kill him.  Now look, Calhoun, why don't you give me a little rest? Again now. Stay back. Here, Chester. Hold it on him. Got him covered, Mr. Dillon. You've got no right to do that. I'll do anything to stop and kill him.  You're interfering.  All right. Chester, take him over to the office and keep him there. Yes, sir. You can lock me up. I'm gonna get married. We're not locking you up, but you're gonna stay in my office till I find out about this. Okay, Chester. All right, get moving, Calhoun. And don't try to run or I'll bang you right on the head. It stands out from all the rest. Miracle tip. Much more flavor. L&M's got everything. It's the best. Yes, L&M is best. Stands out from all the rest. L&M stands out for flavor, flavor, flavor, flavor. The Miracle Tip draws easy. You enjoy all the taste. And notice how mild it is. 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Well, maybe Webb doesn't know about it. Well, he'll find out soon enough, won't he? Yeah. Say, that's an idea, Kitty. Hmm? And the sooner the better. And I'm going to be there when he does. How are you going to manage that? Uh, when Pearl comes back, send her over to my office, will you? Oh, OK, Matt. But this is going to make her awful mad. It's going to make all of them awful mad, Kitty. Well, if you've got any charges against me, I'd like to know what they are. I'm not arresting you, Webb. I told you that. And why are you taking me to jail? I'm not taking you to jail. Well, this is the jail, isn't it? It's also my office. Go on in. OK. What are you doing here, Calhoun? Go on in, Webb. You didn't let him talk none, Mr. Dillon. Just like you told me. Oh, good, Jesse. You're making trouble, Marshall. I don't like it. The trouble's already made, Calhoun. What trouble?  Is that right? I sure would. Well, Calhoun here says that he'll kill you if you try to stop him. Try to stop him? What's he been up to? He came to town today to get married. Married? Mm-hmm. He and Pearl. And he brought a rifle with him. I don't believe it. That's my rifle chest is holding. I don't mean that. I mean about you and Pearl. I made up my mind. I'm going to do it. And you ain't going to stop me. I'll stop you. Webb, if they want to get married, they're going to. And there isn't going to be any trouble over it. Now or later. Who told you they want to get married, him? That's right, he did. But it's Pearl that's going to settle this. Either you or him. She can say right now which one of you she wants, and the other is going to get out and stay out. Is that clear? Why, sure, Marshal. That's fine with me. Pearl knows her own mind, don't you, Pearl? Go on. Tell him. Marshal, I never told Willie I'd marry him. What? I can't marry him. Yes, you can, Pearl. I've made up my mind. He's made up his mind. Sure I have. And I don't care what I got to do to get her away from you. Tell him again, Pearl. Willie, I can't marry you. I never said I would. Well, you can speak out, Pearl. You can. I'm telling you the truth. Please. Now, Pearl. Okay, Calhoun. You heard her. Leave her alone. Leave us both alone. Once I make up my mind, I never change it. I'd rather see her dead than with him. Look, Calhoun, Webb didn't stop you. I did. So you go gunning for anybody, and it's me. Well, I got nothing against you, Marshal. All right, then go back to your place at spring point and stay out of dodge till you get over this. I'll send your rifle out by somebody later on. You think I'm crazy, don't you? You'll forget all about this soon enough. So long, Pearl. Goodbye. You know, he is crazy. After this, you stay away from men like that, Pearl. Understand? Yeah, sure, Webb. Sure, I understand. Come on. I've got to get to work. All right. You handle this fine, Marshal. There'd have been a killing sure otherwise. Yeah. So long, Pearl. Goodbye, Marshal. Chester. Goodbye, Pearl. Oh, Mr. Dell and I feel kindly sorry for that poor Willie Calhoun. He sure had everything all wrong, didn't he? Something's still wrong, Chester, and I don't know if it's because of him and I hope I never find out. Two weeks later, I heard that Pearl and Webb Thorn got married and they moved into a house that Webb owned and Pearl quit working at the Long Branch. I figured that would settle things for good, so the first time I found a man riding out his way, I sent Calhoun's rifle back to him. Then I forgot about it until one morning just before daylight when Chester came running in and whooped me up. I got dressed and we went out under the plaza. It was that boy who worked out at Webb's house that come for Doc, Mr. Dillon, and then Doc whooped me up and said, come get you. What's all the trouble about, Chester? He didn't say except that there's been a shooting. Yeah, I know, but who did it? All the boy told Doc was that it happened in the sleeping room. He didn't say who did it or even who got shot. He's a real smart boy, isn't he? Well, it ain't his fault, Mr. Dillon. See, he heard a shot and then Pearl hollered through the door for him to go fetch Doc. Sounds like maybe she shot Webb, don't it? I mean, since it was her that called the boy. I will find out in a minute. Hey, look, they left the front door open. Yeah. Well, if it was Pearl, she can't run far. Doc should have brought you with him and sent the boy after me. I told him that, but the boy had already left. She's been shot, Pearl. Where's Webb? He's out of town. I went over to Abilene for a few days.  Pearl did. She's still alive, man. Oh. But she won't be for long. If you want to talk to her, you'd better hurry. Who did it, Doc? She'll tell you. Go ahead. I'll wait here with Chester. There's nothing more than I can do for her. Hello, Marshal. Do you mind talking? Didn't talk. A little. Who did it, Pearl? I was asleep, Marshal. The window was open. 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Well, we can if Calhoun ever shows up. Hope he ain't too long. I'm getting hungry. He might not come at all, Chester. Yeah, say that's right. Why would he come here? He must know we're after him. An ordinary man had run but I'm gambling that Calhoun's too tied to this place to leave it for long. Even to escape being caught. He's kindly crazy, ain't he? Yeah, it's not going to keep him from hanging. You think he'll put up a fight, Mr. Dylan? Yeah, he'll fight. Ah, poor Pearl. I'm going out of the world and fill this up, Chester. I'll be right back. All right, Chicks.  You turn around. Drop the bucket. Is that the rifle you used this morning, Calhoun? I'm going to use it again. I've got to kill you and Chester now. I'll get a bullet in you.  Real slow. Now go ahead. No. Go on. Do it. It's like I say, Calhoun, you can kill me but I'll get one bullet in you. You're awful willing to die, Marshal. It'll be worth it to take a woman killer with it. What? Any man that had ambushed a woman. What are you saying, Marshal? What woman? What woman? Pearl. Not Pearl. I didn't shoot Pearl. She heard your voice. She recognized it. Marshal, that wasn't Pearl. Of course it was. Now you're lying to me. Why are you lying to me? I got no reason to lie to you. Why should I? But it couldn't have been Pearl. Now you're saying it was just to drive me crazy. No. No, I know why you're doing it, to keep me from shooting you. Well, it ain't going to work, Marshal. You shot Pearl and she's dead. Doc said she couldn't live more than a half hour after I saw her. I don't believe it. That don't make no sense. Wait a minute. You thought it was Webb Thorn, is that it? Of course it was. That's his house. That's his bedroom. Webb's over in Abilene. No. He's been gone two or three days. What? I still don't believe it. What would Pearl be doing in his house? Why shouldn't she have been there? They were married. They was married. You didn't know they were married? How would I know that? When they get married. A couple of weeks ago? I wanted Webb Thorn. I wanted him so as he'd let Pearl go.  It's him I wanted. Well, you didn't get him, Calhoun. No. No. Now give me the rifle. Take it. I don't care no more. I don't care what happens to me. The law cares. You're going to jail, Calhoun. I just wish you'd shot me. I wish I'd made you shoot me. Go on into the cabin. Marshall? What? Can I sit out here a while? Alone? I won't run. No, you won't run. Okay, Calhoun. You sit here. And now our star, William Conrad. Thank you, George. You filter tip smokers. When you change to L and M filters, the first thing you'll notice is how mild they are, how easy they draw. Yes, L and M's pure white miracle tip lets you enjoy all the taste. No filter compares with it for quality or effectiveness. Try L and M's right now. They're great. Smiling all the while with Chesterfield. Put a smile in your smoking, just give them a try. Light up a Chesterfield. They satisfy. 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It seems I can never get away from this game, can I? So the original Monster Hunter had a very simple character creator, like World of Warcraft who are very limited to changing the face textures and only a handful of options. But as the games have gone on, more and more choices have been added to the series to allow you to truly feel like Monster Hunter. So how does Monster Hunter World do it? Well, starting here we can choose to be a male or female and they're fairly similar in size, which is nice. You can see their physical build is more or less kind of the same aside from what you would expect, the difference between a male and female. There are plenty of facial presets available, all decently unique from one another. And as far as facial features go, you have more or less all the major parts of the face.  No ears though, but that's not a huge deal. You can have facial hair regardless of gender, which I think is pretty neat. So if you so wish, you can be a pretty girl with a nice bushy beard. You have two slots for makeup and facial features. There are also additional options, like expression sets, underclothing, and player voice. The character doesn't speak, but this does allow you to pick what sort of grunts and shouts they make as they emote and attack and such. And you even get these action samples to see what it sounds like whenever they do certain gestures or do certain attacks, which is a nice quality of life there. Down here you can preview how the character looks in different lighting and environments, which is nice in case you wanted to see what your character looks like at the nighttime or if they're out in the day while hunting the monsters. Your character does show up in the cutscenes, which is always nice. Now here's an interesting thing about the character creator. Monster Hunter World allows you one free character voucher, which allows you to redo your character for any reason. It'll bring you back to this menu. You can customize them the same way you customize them the first time around. That's more of a luxury than a lot of character creators get nowadays, but it's a shame that you only get one and have to purchase any additional vouchers. Honestly, of the many ways to monetize a fully priced game post launch, this is one of the least egregious. I have no problems with the character voucher and it's nice that you do get one for free. And I wanted to make a note. This is less of a knock against the character creator itself, but I think it's worth mentioning because it does have to do with character customization as a whole. And that is this game has a minor case of sexy female armor. Some of it makes sense, like Zor Magdaros armor or Rathian or Kulu Yaku or sets where both genders are equally showing skin.  Where the men would have big bulky looking armor covering every inch of their body, the women are sometimes resorted to wearing boot plate, bikinis, lingerie, whatever. Monster Hunter definitely doesn't do it as heavy a degree as other games, but I still think it's worth pointing out. And this can be easily solved in two ways. Either allow both genders the option to wear either set. I personally would love it if I could wear the female Zenojiva armor because I just like how the veil looks. Or alternatively, make the same set of armor for both with only minor size adjustments.  In fact, I am an advocate for sexual expression in any forms of art. But I would also like equal opportunity in that regard. Maybe I want to be a sexy boy or a non-sexy girl. And I personally think that that's not an unreasonable request. And finally, there is also a Palico creator, which I will go over separately because I think it deserves its own analysis. So what is the bad about Monster Hunter World's character creator? First of all, like World of Warcraft, these selection menus are clunky. Once again, we have another case of hovering over the option instantly changing it. This can make comparisons really difficult. Sure, with a mouse, you can hover over options you want to compare and kind of snake through them and navigate around with a mouse. But you don't get that luxury with a controller. You have to flip through them one by one. And even with the mouse, it's still difficult to compare the face options on different pages. For example, if I wanted to compare this face with this face, I have to be quick on the draw. This is a big problem when there are so many options that make minute changes. So it's a bigger deal here than it would be in something like WoW, where there are so few options.  So I would have liked to be able to compare them easily. Once again, a very common thing with a lot of character creators is there is no adjustment options to the character's body whatsoever. No height, no weight. Not even small things like how muscly their body textures. This means that every hunter, regardless of how their faces will look the same physical build-wise. Now, the makeup slots. Although they're pretty nice, you only get two makeup slots. This is a problem because makeup doesn't just mean makeup. It also means facial features like freckles or scars or tattoos. So if you want your character to have a specific set of makeup, like say lipstick and eyeliner, then you have to sacrifice having anything else. You only get two. Like if I wanted freckles for this character, I have to get rid of either my eyeliner or my lipstick, which is somewhat annoying. Same thing for if I want scars or if I want any sort of face paint whatsoever. Small quality of life thing that I will praise them for doing is that whenever you select a different type of makeup, that it will highlight what's changed. This is great for kind of more subtle things like different types of eyeliner that may be hard to figure out if it even changed anything. This is a nice. Now, although I've been lucky enough to not really notice this on my character, there have been plenty of accounts where the character does not appear as nice in the real game as it appears in the creator, either because of animation rigs or real game lighting or whatever. For some reason, sometimes it just doesn't line up, which can mean you have to use up your character voucher to fix it or start over with a whole new save file. The worst part is I don't think that this is something that can really be fixed easily, if at all. But with that out of the way, let's talk about the good things because there are plenty of good things. First off, there are so many options.   I get several pages of different noses alone. Look at that. And they come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. This is great. But it doesn't just stop there. There are also additional adjustment sliders for every option I just listed. So for skin color, you not only have a set of preset skin colors, you have a whole skin color wheel. And you have sliders for face complexion and wrinkles. For noses, you get to choose your nose height. For eyes, you can choose their orientation, whether they're high or low, or if they're closer together or further apart. You can adjust eye colors individually, if you so wish. For things that you can color, you get to choose hue brightness and saturation. For makeup, you even get the option to choose how glossy or metallic you want it to be. This means you can make yourself look shiny. This is awesome for fine-tuning different selections that may look almost like what you wanted, but if only you could make a slight change to make it perfect. Well, with this, you can. And of course, the quality of the character is fantastic. This is among one of the prettiest character creators I've seen. The finish is nice. The textures are extremely detailed and high quality. And oh my God, the hair. I'm a stickler for hair quality and design and games. And when they don't look good, it is constantly bothering me. But this hair looks incredible. And bonus points, although I can't show it here because I guess I forgot to download it, you can have the same hairstyles as the NPCs for free. And finally, the additional options like under-clothing and facial expressions and voice are just a cherry on top. It's nice enough to have all of these general options to make your hunter truly yours, but the fact that Capcom went the extra mile to give you a character, the extra little touch is very nice and great and making you feel like this character is an actual character in the world, even if they are a blank slate. Conclusion, a huge variety of face options make for a huge variety of looks. And no matter what, your character will always look amazing, even if they're ugly. And now on to the Palico creator. Starting with Freedom Unite, the Monster Hunter games allowed you to have a cat companion that would fight along your side, also known as a Palico. The franchise has allowed you to customize these little critters more and more with each entry, so let's see how world does it. Just like the hunter, you get a handful of presets. You can change the cat's fur pattern, eyes, ears, tail, voice, all that good stuff. You can change the Palico's fur color as well as three colors on their fur pattern for a combined four different colors at once. Colors are fully customizable, just like the hunter, with additional brightness and saturation sliders, so you don't have to stick with just the preset colors they give you. And although you should never talk poorly about a cat, I'm about to tell you what's bad about this character creator. The options are very limited, especially compared to the hunter. Now, having less options is to be expected, but I feel like you could have had a few more, like maybe a couple of more patterns or maybe a couple of more ear types or voices or tails. As it is, it feels a little lacking. You also don't get the additional sliders that the hunter has. Sure, you have fur length and thickness, but for things like the eyes, you can't adjust their orientation or size for the ears, same thing, tail, same thing. Maybe perhaps I wanted this thick fluffy tail, but I also wanted it to be longer, while I can't do that. It's a shame when you can make all these additional adjustments for the hunter, but not your palico. It'd be nicer if you could make those further adjustments just to make up for the fact that your options are very limited, like being able to rotate or position or resize the fur pattern. That would allow these four patterns you get to go a long way in how different they can be instead of just color. Like imagine if I could take this pattern and rotate it to orient it to where the stripe is horizontal across the legs. And although this is just the nature of the game, your initial customization for your palico is a little bit undermined by the gear they're going to wear, many of which is going to cover up your hard work in making the perfect cat companion. The hunters don't have this problem because of layered armor, this game's version of transmogrification, and the ability to hide your helmet. Palicos don't get that option, and their gear progression is a lot more linear compared to the hunters. Which means once people figure out what the best armor is for the palico, a lot of them are going to be wearing the same thing online. Now, what about the good? Well, first and foremost, you can have a goddamn cat companion.  The palico creator has achieved something very special in that every person's first reaction to it is universally positive. What? Oh! I get to make a kitty? Palico are, oh my God, game of the year. Now I- And why wouldn't it be? Look at this guy. Look at his eyes. For what limited options you do have, it is fairly competent and recreating any real cat you may have.  And just like the hunter, the presentation is once again fantastic. The model looks good, especially the fur.  Conclusion. Sure, it's limited, but how many games allow you to make a custom adorable fighting cat companion? And how many of them look this good? This has been character creator critique. Be sure to vote on which games character creator should be critiqued next. And I'll see you then.


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the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. Today we are going to talk with Steve Goodenow. He came across the Sea to Hawaii and eventually settled into a life as a private investigator in Hawaii. Steve has just written a memoir titled Hawaii and I. He talks about his 50 year career as a PI in Hawaii. As detailed in his book, Steve has often traveled on the seamy side of paradise. He has always come up smiling and with unique insights into human nature. Welcome Steve. Thanks, Mark. I appreciate the introduction. You know, before we get into talking about your book, 50 years is a long time. Your book highlights a lot of interesting and notorious cases that you've handled and your travels around the world handling cases. But I'd like to ask you a little bit. What does the book, the timing of the book signify? Is this perhaps signaling a change in your life? Is this a retirement or if I had a case for you right now today, would you take it or would you refer it out? Where are you at in your life? Well, let me tell you the reason I wrote the book. There are actually two reasons I wrote the book, Mark. The first was about five years ago, my son, who lives in the state of Washington, Chris sent me a Christmas present and it was a blank book. You know, and he asked me, he said, Dad, what I'd really like for Christmas is for you to write a story about your life. Well, you know, that was very nice and the time passes quickly and I never did it, but I always thought about it. And then going back in time to when my father was still alive and we worked together, Dad and I discussed writing a book really about his life because he lived really an exciting life as a spy. And I wanted to do that. So those two things kind of hit me one day. And I said, if I don't do it, I never will. Here I've done 50 years, actually 52. And it's time to do it. And I worked a big case for a friend of mine by the name of Dwayne Carisu. And Dwayne runs AIO, which is a conglomerate company and amongst the companies they own is a publishing company. I really didn't know it at the time. Well, after I did the case, Dwayne and his CFO, Bonnie Amamia, who was a good friend of mine who I've known for years, kept telling me, well, you ought to write a book. You ought to write a book.  And I went up to see George. And he said, well, what would you write a book about? Well, I had kind of done a rough outline years ago, which I brought, and it was about the eight deadly sins, seven deadly sins. And I thought I've had so many cases, I've covered all those sins on the part of others, I might add, that I thought it would be interesting to write cases that I've had about those particular sins. Okay, but let me come in here a little bit. Okay, so I hear your motivation. And your son and your dad were part of it. And Dwayne kind of said you should put this down. But are you still an investigator? Are you still?  Yeah, I would say I'm a little more selective now. I want to make sure I've always been selective about cases, although I've usually taken most of them, no matter who called me. But I want to make sure that what I do for you can provide, because it'll be for your client, can provide a service to your client is just not a waste of money, and a waste of your time and a waste of my time. I want to make sure it's relevant. So I'm a little more selective, although.  And you wrote this book and what, how would you describe your book with the Hawaiian eye? What's it about? Well, I was at somewhat of a disadvantage because my former firm that I had been associated with years ago had destroyed all my files. So I had to do everything from memory. So since I'm getting a little up there in age, I decided I better write things down before I forget it all. So with that in mind, I knew I needed a little help. And so I decided I would stick to my basic thesis of the seven deadly sins. And I would write stories about people who I encountered. And I also wanted because of my relationship with my father to tell a little about him because he was my mentor. Let me let me ask you a little bit more about that. In your book, you do talk about how you became a private investigator, and you talk a lot about your dad. And how did he influence that? What, what, how was he involved in that ultimate choice that you made to become a private investigator? Well, I was a school teacher. And when I graduated from Whitworth College with a degree in education and did my student teaching, Hawaii had no jobs. I wanted to come back to Hawaii, but they had no jobs, at least for me. So I got a job up in the state of Washington as a teacher. But after three years, which I did a lot of things, I became head of the teacher association. I negotiated contracts for our teachers with the board of education. I did all those things. I thought it was I wanted to get back to Hawaii. And so I just basically resigned and came to Hawaii and looked for a job. And I worked for my dad for the summer. And what was he up? What was he doing? He had retired from the FBI and had set up the first real legal investigation company in Hawaii. And so I had a knack and the knack I had was for surveillance and photography. We didn't have video in those days, we had photography and movies. And so I had a real knack for it. And dad had always taught us kids, you know, how to take pictures and understand about light. And I'd taken some courses in photography, because I kind of thought I'd one day I might like to be a professional photographer. But in any event, I got into that. And dad then began to train me in the art of investigations. And of course, he was FBI. And, you know, had gone through a lot of training had done a lot of things. And he was a really good teacher. And I just I've been, you know, during his life, he had made trips to Europe for months at a time. So when I grew up in my formative years, I kind of always missed my dad because he was gone a lot. So this was a chance for me to realize that reestablish the connection with my dad. So he was a great he's you're kind of like a second generation. Oh, I API is what you're telling. Yeah. Yeah, he started his business in 66. I joined him in 67. And what type of cases were you handling in those days? Or what type of cases did you get started on? Well, we had some really exciting cases, because if you go back to that period of time, it was the time when organized crime was really heavily present in the islands. And so we had some great cases involving thefts. We had cases, you know, we had to go down to letter as bar and Hotel Street one really was not quite what it is today.  And he introduced me to that particular life. But what I excelled in was photography and surveillance. And so I developed with my father's firm, the surveillance aspect of investigation. And I worked on countless personal injury, and workman compensation cases taking movies of claimants. Right. And your book talks about that, how you would follow people that were making claims and saying things that you discovered were not quite accurate. You know, what I never could figure out, Mark, about people was, I guess it's just greed. I guess it's one of my seven deadly sins, you know, a lot of people have accidents and have injuries. And, you know, I guess they're out for the money aspect of it. And so they tried to exaggerate it.  But the people were always trying to exaggerate it. I guess to get more money. Well, in reality, they shouldn't have done that because, you know, if you if you have injuries, you've got doctor reports, etc, etc. Just say what it is that's really bothering you, you usually get the same amount, you know, unless you want to now try to inflate it. Well, I would catch the inflators. I would catch them doing things they said they couldn't do. And so I was good at it. I will say this, bragging yes, but I was good at it. And you sort of took over from your dad and started doing a lot of investigative work. And in your book, you also talk a little you kind of make a comparison between being a real private investigator and a TV private investigator like Magnum. Now, are there similarities and differences? What what did you find? Well, you know, the Magnum comparison is kind of interesting because a Brooks Bear who I think he's with the city prosecutor's office now as a spokesman, but he was a reporter. And he knew Barack Obama when Obama was here one time watching some basketball games, which my wife and I go to all the games. He saw me and introduced me to the to the future president. He introduced me as Barack I'd like you to meet the future. I'd like you to meet the real Magnum PI. But there's a difference in what we do.  There's a lot of fights. You know, I try to avoid fights and guns whenever I can. I think it's a more healthy way to live. I've been licensed to carry a concealed weapon on three occasions. Right, you mentioned that in your book. Yeah. Yeah. And I've carried them on more occasions when the police knew I was carrying because they told me you better carry a firearm because you're dealing with some pretty bad people. But I wish you could throw all the guns in the world in the ocean. And we wouldn't have to deal with that problem. But you know, the privatize on television. I mean, they got an hour to show a show. I do like Magnum PI on TV though.  So you can do different kinds of things. Now you might get sued in civil court, but you can still do them. For example, I had a case once where I had to bust into a back of a guy's trunk because I knew he had stolen guns, goods in there. And I wanted to see him for myself and photography them, and which I did. And we were able to catch him. He didn't bother to sue me because he had stolen so much stuff. He had bigger problems than me. But police couldn't do that. They'd have to get a warrant. Well, I don't have to do that. And if you look at Magnum PI on TV, you see him doing that all the time. So there is a there is a little similarity between you and Magnum PI is what I hear you saying. Right, right. And he has a beautiful woman that he works with. Well, I have my wife and she's a beautiful woman too. So there's that similarity. Okay, well, I and I do want to talk a little bit about that in the next part of our program, you know, in your book, you talk a lot about friendship, relationships, and you use the word love a lot. And I found that interesting because to me, I'd like to understand what your relationship is. And there's a photo of your lovely wife up there. And I want to talk a little bit after we come back from the break, we're going to take a one minute break, a little bit about those things and how you find them important as a private investigator and why you put them in your book. So we'll take a little break and be right back. Aloha, I'm Wendy Lo and I'm coming to you every other Tuesday at two o'clock live from Think Tech Hawaii. And on our show, we talk about taking your health back. And what does that mean? It means mind, body, and soul. Anything you can do that makes your body healthier and happier is what we're going to be talking about, whether it's spiritual health, mental health, fascia health, beautiful smile health, whatever it means. Let's take healthy back. Aloha. Aloha, I'm Dave Stevens host of the Cyber Underground. This is where we discuss everything that relates to computers that's just kind of scare you out of your mind. So come join us every week here on ThinkTechHawaii.com 1pm on Friday afternoons.  All our shows will show up and please follow us. We're always giving you current relevant information to protect you. Keeping you safe. Aloha. We are back with Steve Goodenow, private investigator, Hawaii private investigator who just published a memoir called Hawaii and I. And Steve, I have a question for you. Follow up to what I was talking before the break. In your book, I kind of found this interesting. You talk a lot about friendship, personal relationships, and love.  I found that interesting. How does that all work in with being a private investigator? Those concepts? What does what does personal relationships and friendships have to do? First of all, with being a private investigator? Well, Mark, remember, private investigators are just really, although we have some specific training and there's requirement to get a license. But we're just like everybody else. So we don't have a badge. I can't come up and show you my badge and ask you to talk to me. And if you don't take you downtown. So I have to get people to tell me things they won't tell their own mother. And so I've developed the sense of having a good relationship with people, treating them honestly, treating them fairly and giving them credit when credit is due. You have to have relationships with people.  And you may need that person more than once.  So it's kind of like a strategy of being a private investigator, but also works in life is kind of what I'm hearing you say. Yeah, you know, I'm fortunate to have been raised by parents that basically came out of the Midwest out of Iowa. I was born in Iowa.  When there's a disaster or something, all the farmers will get together. You don't even think twice about it. So building good relationships was was important to my family. And it translated down to me. I think my brother and sister are exactly like that also. So, you know, you have to treat people. We learned that, you know, just because a person's skin is different or religion is different, or they look different, they have long hair, whatever it is, it doesn't matter. It's what's in their mind and how they treat you and how they treat others that is important. So relationships are important in Hawaii, probably everywhere, I think, but really so in Hawaii. And you use the word love a lot. You know, let's get back to that. Now, how can anybody love a lawyer? Come on, really? Hey, lawyers are my best clients. I better love them. They give me the business.  And, you know, sometimes they can seem to have a personality that that maybe doesn't cut it with a wide segment of people. But those that I think are very good have that kind of personality. And I enjoy dealing with lawyers. You know, I was set to go to law school at one point, but decided not to after I got a big case and decided it was more important to work the case and go to law school. I can do it tomorrow. Hey, maybe that's what I'll do in the next 50 years. But lawyers do a lot of good things.  I don't think so. I think life is complicated. And I think they tend to sort it out overall. Lawyers that I've met lawyers that I've dealt with. So I like lawyers. What have you what have you learned about lawyers and the law in Hawaii, the legal system in your career? Well, there's a couple, couple, couple types of lawyers. I mean, I'll make it real simple. There are those that try to tell you what to do. And there are those that treat you as a professional and say go do it. I like those, of course, the second group, right? Because, you know, lawyers, I'll give you an example. Lawyers, when they go out and have to get information from people, they serve them a subpoena, right? They take a deposition. I mean, how many times have I been told that people don't want to talk to lawyers because hey, they have to take time off for work, they don't get paid for it. Who's going to take care of their kids? And I'm the guy that goes out and talks to them. I'm the guy that goes out and sees them. I'm the guy that sometimes makes arrangements for them so that the kids are taken care of. So, you know, I have to be the guy on the street. There's a hell of a lot different between doing a courtroom deposition, and there is going out on the street and interviewing witnesses. So there are lawyers that I work with. In fact, I pretty well limited it to those kind of lawyers that seem to understand that. And they allow me the flexibility and freedom to conduct the investigation as I see fit. Well, in your book, you talk about a lot of cases and working for various lawyers. Is there one particular case that you kind of like to talk about in your book? Well, I mean, I've got so many of them. In fact, I heard I could write another book because, you know, that that's something I wanted to ask is there a story out there that without telling names or identifying items, you can say you might include in a second book. Well, I'm not sure about that I think about, but I can tell you this, that my friendships with lawyers got to the point of where they trusted me. And so there were always lawyers that would call that had needed personal favors. And I chose not to have a bad mouth book. You know, I chose not to highlight some of the follies of some of our lawyer friends. And right about those, I wrote about their cases, perhaps, but not about the favors I had to do for lawyers, lawyers problems with their kids, lawyers problems with their spouses or girlfriends, you name it. Relatives that had problems that I've helped out Monawahi. And I've done that. And I just think that's the nature of my business. That is perhaps a book that will never be written. I hear you saying. Well, it'd be interesting to write the book. You know, when I was a kid, I thought sacred were ministers, lawyers, doctors, you know, those kinds of people right out there were sacred. As I went through life, I found they all have problems. They're no better or worse than me. Well, is that is that what you've learned? I mean, from being a private investigator? Is that what you've learned about life and human nature? Is what what what have you learned? If you don't learn anything, you better learn, you better not get into the problems your clients get into. You know, people drink too much, people use drugs, people steal money. You know, it's best to avoid those problems. And if I've learned anything, it's I'd rather be investigating you than you investigating me. Well, let's say you have a young lawyer or a young person, not a lawyer, but a young person in front of you. And they're asking you, Uncle Steve, I'm thinking about becoming a private investigator. What is your advice to that young person? Well, I said, I guess I would tell them, you know, don't do it for the money. If you if you do it for the money, you'll never be successful. Do it because you have an inquisitive nature. Do it because you like people do it because you want to solve a puzzle. I used to have an advertisement, which was a puzzle. Because I think that's what we do. We put puzzles, pieces together to come up with a picture. And so do it for those reasons. You could stay in the law. I think a lawyer would make actually a good investigator. But you have to learn to use different tools. You don't have the tool, the subpoena. You have only the tool of your own mind and your wit and your ability to talk to people and convince them to communicate with you. Personal relationships. Personal relationships. Yeah, right, right. I remember I've had a, I've had a lot of theft cases. And I, you know, maybe there's a couple exceptions. Maybe I tend to forget them. But almost every case when I've finally gone through and I've got that person to convince to confess their theft, you know, I always tell them this, you know, today is going to be the best day of the rest of your life. Sounds kind of trite, doesn't it? But I mean it. Because you've been carrying this burden of this theft for so long. And now you don't need to carry it anymore. You've confessed your sins. And it is time to move on. There may be consequences.  And I've had, I've had so many people shake my hands, give me a hug and tell me thank you, you know, for finding out that they were the thieves.   And they were given an opportunity to change. And that's kind of what I hear you saying. I don't want to give the book away, but read the I think the last chapter, I think there's a chapter in there about my favorite cases. Right. The last last chapter it made me cry. And I had a fellow read the book. And he told me, you know, he said I read that last chapter and I cried too. Because it's a story of relationships. It's a story of love and how love triumphs all. But anyway, I won't give it away. Okay, well, look, we have we have about one minute left. Where can people get your book? Are you doing a book signing or anything else? Yeah, yeah, I'm going to be at Barnes and Noble at one o'clock on this Saturday, the 11th and signing books. There was a problem with the cover of the book. So they had to send it back. And I don't know, it was supposed to be in a matte finish or something. So they'll deal with it. And eventually to be on Amazon and, you know, you'll be able to get it there, hopefully in a Kindle because I'm a Kindle guy, hopefully it's there. And you can contact Watermark Publishing and Watermark Pub, Watermark Mark Publishing will send you the book. So they have it there too. Okay, well, that's great. And, you know, Steve, thank you for being my guest today. Very happy. I read your book. I enjoyed it. Saw, heard a lot of names I knew. And I don't want to give anything away either. And look forward to seeing you on the street, but not being investigated by you. So a lot. Well, Mark, we've had a couple of cases together that could be in the next book. All right. Thank you, Mark. Thank you.


area trivia challenge stump the jumps on this 21st day of April 2022 and it's been quite a while since we've matched up COVID-19 set us back or set us all back and I sort of stepped aside for a while and so here we are with the refurbishing of the stump the jump program and my name is Bill Cale I've been around a long long time but these guys have been around a long time not as long as me but this is Al Sharon and this is Roselle Lawrence so Al give us your Burlington pedigree my pedigree your pedigree well I'm a lifelong resident of Burlington I work for the state for about 40 years and I've enjoyed every moment I've had in Burlington and I'm glad that we're going to be talking about Burlington parks close to my heart okay Roselle I've been around Burlington government a long time and I think you're the one who works for so many different departments while doing your service to the city is that true well couple three of them or so the in 1959 I went in as a full-time fireman in Burlington for 10 years and at the at that time 10 years later I partnered up with someone and started Queen City fire equipment selling fire equipment all over the northern half of Vermont including fire stations and then then I sold out my my half and went to the legislature for a couple years until the mayor pocket asked me to come to work for the city which was as assistant city clerk for about two and a half years then he asked me to go down to the assessor's office where after a couple years I was city assessor until 1990 prior to going to work for the city I actually was on two commissions in Burlington they what was called at that time the Street Commission they were all separate and also the Sewage Disposal Commission Wow and was chairman of each of them for a year or two and that's that's a that's when that's when I went I had to leave that to when I went to work for the city but then after I left the city I always for I don't know 15 years or more was a an inspector of election out in Ward 4 so that been around the city doing different things for a number of years Wow okay viewers if you have a question to something jumps and you want to call in call<PHONE_NUMBER> you might have a question for us or you might have to share an incident because we're going to talk about the outset talk about the Burlington Parks and Recreation System and I even brought my even brought my hat I had lunch yesterday with Cindy White who was the current director of Parks Recreation Waterfront and anything else that floats so if you have a incident you want to share with us give us a call again we're going to talk about Burlington Recreation Areas our parks our beach our bike path so Rose there what were growing up in Burlington or being in Burlington what's your favorite park and what you would what did you do in that part your favorite thing well in the early to mid 50s or so I grew up in the Old North Inn and almost every night in the winter we were at Roosevelt Park where they had a good-sized warming hut with a pot belly stove and I skated there every night and about nine o'clock after the young kids left they they would put on music and you could actually skate with the girls and back then it was like a rhythm type of skating that you did almost like a dance and that was a lot of fun and then when it was time to close up there was two or three of us that skated pretty well we would help the maintenance guy to use the shovels and clear the ice off of all the snow and stuff so that he could put out the hoses and freeze it and that's kind of what they did down at the south end what was South Park back then started from Flynn Avenue I mean Pine Street all the way up to what you know as Kellahan Park now that upper part was all part of South Park and up in that upper part is where they had a warming hut and ice skating just like Roosevelt during that time years later became a little league and as you know it does today down below was the baseball field where a lot of softball leagues played there was a big big grandstand there that got taken down several years ago but those were the two primary parks in the city outside of North Beach in the summertime for for going out there for swimming so well well I I like South Park I played football baseball down there the high schools played down there I also like Smalley Park because I hit a grand slam home run off from Julie Molanson's house which was down the left field line and so that's always been dear to my heart but no well and the battery park I've always liked because of the sunsets there Rutger Kipling said if you want to enjoy a sunset go to Badbury Park in Burlington and he and he's right and my wife my wife and and I go frequently to see sunsets at Badbury Park to this day to this day well as I said I had lunch with Cindy White and this one of my causes is the open battery park again to the public but that's not very popular but right now there's no way to get to Battery Park you have to park at the closest parking it's parking garage so I go by Overlake Park once in a while in South Burlington and there's more people looking at the lake from Overlake Park in South Burlington as more than Burlington you get only people well your way up yeah yeah so it's now the nice part about Battery Park was when when I when we were in our young age there was a lot of kids that spent a lot of days in the summer there and the cannons were always popular to jump up and sit on the cannons as if you were riding a horse walked a stone wall that was around there it had a lot of activities which now you don't see any activity because nobody can park there and it got spoiled because of few people with young people with cars would park there and there was things that the police didn't appreciate going on with in those cars and the solution was to shut down the park in there and keep people out instead of making good use of something that was a great asset to the city and let me just follow up you mentioned Smalley Park and for the audience that might not know where Smalley Park is it's it's it goes a lot it's on the corner of St. Paul Street going up Adams Street it's not real big but that's where the Burlington High School when Burlington High School was down on Main and South Union Street the baseball team every day would go down there and that's where they did all their practicing some of the softball teams leagues would play there too but that that park had a lot of use but it was very rough if you went if you were doing baseball there or softball and you slid chances are you might be going against some rough stones and something else I remember I remember being a catcher there for softball one night and a guy rounded third and was heading home and he wasn't going to get across so I stood in front holding that ball and man he nailed me like a bulldozer and I went skidding in all that rough terrain so I remember it real well I went also you could hit a home run in the center field couldn't you what was the name of that street that came down Elm Terrace Elm Terrace I saw a guy we were playing a game with the UVM freshman and Jack LeMabe who later pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates he was on the freshman team and he hit a ball he was playing first base that day for the freshman and he hit a ball up there on Elm Terrace and I forgot you know him hitting that ball up there I never saw anything like that before I mean that's about 400 feet yeah wow you know that's 400 feet. I was playing with the Mud Alley Midgets in Smalley Park remember the Mud Alley Midgets maybe you remember the Mud Alley Midgets. Explain where Mud Alley is. Right Mud Alley is Marble Avenue Hayward Street down sort of the halfway south end but anyway was playing for Lenny Lafayette and I was being a smarty some of you hit me a fly ball and I said oh I'll try to catch it behind my back you know I like this the ball is coming I've been over like that I missed it I didn't bother to go back to the dugout because I knew I wouldn't have a long life the rest of that game but getting back to the ice skating thing that's that's really was a very popular sport and was they did a lot of South Park and when they put the lights on that was a big deal and helps and I was Park Superintendent about that time when a lot of that was going on and as soon as I got that job as Park Superintendent I found out that the employees there was there was a an alderman in Burlington at that time who sold soda and he had glass containers and what he the deal was made with the city that whatever this the soda whatever they sell it was profit to the person who worked there they didn't get paid for it but they get these old soda and candy with the profits going in that well I stopped that big time but that wasn't Champlain beverage was it yes we know who the element is that you're talking about so but also another run in with that person as well because we'll get to North Beach in a while but you don't want glass at North Beach oh my god no and that's the last thing I want your city alderman selling a container that is glass he's not very supportive of banning glass but that was an issue that some of the pressure sometimes that these city officials or state officials have pressures for people with special interests we know that all the time but anyway that was my experience with the glass containers and of course we don't do that anymore but we did it that day I can verify what happens because we were frolicking down at North Beach one time with a ball and somebody threw the ball out and went out over the water some so I run out I kind of did one of these flying things for about six out eight feet out into the water and when I landed on that one foot I caught a piece of glass and on the bottom of my foot and it was at the hospital that they had to clean it out well yeah so that is dangerous how about the new north end new north end has two parks now and one the shifoletti park job shifoletti park and we have a park what's the other one there's a park down by where I live tree point yeah by apple tree point and it's been dedicated to David Krakowski yeah and has basketball court and also play area and it was dedicated to him because he lived close by and he used to go over there on his own and mow the grass at the park oh so it was a great thing you know when they dedicated that to him but you can go down there and and watch these kids play basketball at this park yeah and so that's a great park of course shifoletti park Charlie had been a you know great organizer for Little League yeah I was there when Charlie and Bill Peacock and Bob Rosenberg and some people only had was two dugouts that's how they started that was all work and city didn't give me any money or any support today there's what two three good nice ballpark right really nice ballpark three major ones I the third one that when you were talking about there were two and then when they I was involved as a vice president of the little league at the time when we built the third one and we did all the work ourselves yep all volunteers yeah that made it very successful I'd be umpire in baseball games though you the fans are real close to the players and one of the big issues was your behind the plate calling balls and strikes and the parents would be griping both of me the umpire and they tell the kids oh stand closer to the play get your feet together put put your all that advice that a poor kid playing baseball it was harassment eight nine ten years old yeah so now I think they put the fans out in center field right and well they got a couple of real nice stands out there now they're the new cut aluminum kind that meet the safety standards and everything else yeah okay yeah now about one of our lesser known parts called shaman'ska shaman'ski viewers if you get some input here give us a call<PHONE_NUMBER> now Sharon knows a lot about Burlington that does rose their lawns they've been around give us a call<PHONE_NUMBER> well shaman'ska park shaman'ska park was named it's uh down by go for curvy sand pit used to be down around chase chase street and that area and Ireland has built some big quite a development in that area almost and so shaman'ska was owned by the land was owned by shaman'ska and then was donated to the city and it's about 123 square acres it connects to centennial centennial field and cemetery up there I don't know if there's a cemetery there is up the hill oh yeah going towards it centennial field anyway these have softball games here so just say if you're playing it shaman'ska park and right field is a steep hill right how you play softball and playing right field when it's on a slope didn't play there very long but softball was a big thing in Burlington we had the continental league and a couple leagues that you were talking about the rose there yeah the continental if I remember right they were the the younger crowd you know probably shortly after after getting out of high school and up to well they could go to any age but most of them were like in their 20s and early 30s and it was serious ball that they played the league I played in a couple years was I think there was a minimum age of either 30 or 35 it wasn't as serious and certainly not as fast but we played at South Park at Letty Park sometimes at Smully but the softball was pretty big back in 60s and 70s quite big and in the 50s when they had fast pitch no slow pitch and fast and you had you had DeShane's and you had McGregor's and yet you know you had a number of different teams and they would go out of state and play and they could be you know fast pitch it was really fast pitch and it really is and people think of it kind of as a public park but Centennial field is really belongs to UVM but a lot of other things going on there and if you want to talk about baseball way back in the 40s you had the Burlington Cardinals which was a professional team that played there and and players from that the were associated with the St. Louis Cardinals so there was a lot of good baseball but remember when we're talking about those times even in the early to mid 50s when I was talking about going out skating every night it wasn't every household that had a TV it was minimal it was minimal because TVs were kind of expensive and you might you were only getting like three channels so you weren't sitting home watching TV every night so you went out and did things watching TV especially on Saturdays you were always out doing something at watching TV through the snow yeah I remember some some of the skates you had a certain three kinds of skates it was hockey skates there was a regular skates racers you had right yeah right what's wrong with the ridges on it and the toes those are figure skaters figure skates yeah I'm you I always use the racer skates yeah oh you're the smarty with the long blades huh yeah Roosevelt Park there was always a big crowd there but there was a two of us that were probably the considered probably the the better skaters and one you remember police chief art Karen sure well he had a set of twin boys and one of them boys was the other guy that skated with races with me and we'd break up after all the young kids were gone we'd break up and make two groups and play what was called dungeon which you you tag somebody and they had to go into this little ice area that we set up and if somebody else could come through there and tag them they'd be free that that was kind of simple entertainment that we had back then there was no hockey played no hockey was played down in Lakeside with the lefty Joel and and you know I'm strong Claude Armstrong and the and you know those guys down there who actually found founded the kids hockey in Burlington but yeah and you're right you raced over at over at Roosevelt Park and when you want to talk about old parks at Lakeside that's one of the old parts yeah yeah when in those days they were talking about the the fire wood and you go on the matter what the temperature was the wind you went out and skated oh yeah and you came in and you warmed up again it was something really hot and you put your take off your shoes and put your shoes underneath the bench and you make sure that after you get through skating that your shoes are still there and of course after everybody left right some kids forget their shoes under what they went home but that was that was a situation but of course they used to flood that whole area you know they get out there with their hoses and that was quite an area there at Roosevelt Park oh yeah it was it was a big ring it was a big ring the same thing in South Park pretty much in Damascus had a rink out a while now do you ever hear of Champlain Street Park yeah well that that came about from some buildings that got torn down back in where'd that come from I don't remember how that the city got a hold of that I'd say it was Champlain a viewer Champlain Street Park is at the end the south end of Champlain Street right near Maple Maple or King I think it's between King and Maple okay yeah but there there was a building there and I might have been as late back as the 70s or probably the early 80s when something got torn down and never got built up and turned the neighborhood kind of turned it in the park and then the city kind of took it over I I won't swear to that but I think it's about what happened when I was at the park department we was put in 60s that that was one of my parks it was one then okay it's not very big it goes back further than I think well they're doing a renovation of it right now oh they are okay good because it's not there's a few kids around there but but not that many but I see what's what's another part with Letty Park you know well let me let me park was named after Bernard Letty who was on the parks he was a longtime member of the Burlington Parks Commission correct and he had lived on Standford Road in the 40s and he would walk in those woods over over to the Burlington rendering plant and he wanted to see a park there at some time and so soon after his death in 1972 the Park Commission named Carranco Park in his honor and the park was finally dedicated July 4th 1976 and that was a bicentennial year and that's what it was dedicated to to Bernard Letty and it turned out to be a great park it was a great area you know that area when Carranco was there you could smell you could smell it on North Avenue and well yeah and then they had all those woods to to mask it you know and to cut it off let me just explain what a rendering plant was Carranco was a company rendering plant was where they process animal caucuses and the other thing they did they had trucks that went around to all the store store to store like the stores would throw all their beef trimmings and bones and stuff because back then it didn't come all prepared you broke it all down and boned it out and put it in barrels and once once or twice a week the big rendering company truck would come by and pick them up so at that plant is where that all got boiled down and what they'd end up making with it was industrial oils and what's the word I want oh I made a note of that but into industrial fats oils as in such and and talon for soap and now and also for fertilizer and you can imagine what kind of smell came out of that but it was all wooded around that area and ironically what my brother-in-law was in the demolition building and he he's the one that tore that whole plant down and everything when it was time for it to go and then it got turned into a Letty Park and the ice rink was built on the other side of the tracks the render plant course was where the parking lot is the other side of Letty Park that was put in during the Gordon Poquette administration right let's go to North Beach we got five minutes ago we tell about North Beach yeah North Beach was when I took over it was awful we had a terrible bathhouse with rickety and sewage going directly into the lake in the swimming area and you know day after July 4th weekend you see feces on the shoreline and all sorts of things on the waterfront and the so when the time came whereby the school department wanted some land to put a high school right near North Beach so we made a deal the Park Department had property where they have administered the property where the athletic fields are so what we did was we made a deal school department you put up a sewage treatment plant and we'll give you turn over the athletic fields in the rest of that area which is park area to the school department so that's how we get the sewage out of the lake but for a while we get the water tested to make to do what we could about keeping it clean which we didn't but I got together with the with the city health officer I said you know doctor this is July 4th weekend temperatures 85 degrees we're not gonna if we test the water we're not gonna win he said well I'll take the test down a little bit more bull the surface for the worse cooler because people are gonna go to that beach anyway I mean when yeah whether they it was polluted yeah and then the other the other thing was just briefly we extended the hit fly ash of the suit for the Moran plant and that was flying over Lake View Terrace but we also some residue and we took trucks from that ash fly ash to extend North Beach so we had a lot going there and I can tell you there was a lot of summer days that I spent down there and for a couple of years I was the reserve lifeguard that would get called in if they were sure to lifeguard so North Beach has a lot of fond memories and up in the camping area wasn't as big as the camping is now but a lot of Canadians came and camped there and they were doing it with the tents and stuff not not the RVs like you see today there was quite a family even brooding some people would go to there because oh yeah it was cheap it was cheap yep it was accessible I mean you know and they've done a great job with North Beach okay well good I think folks I hope you enjoyed our little rip discussion here about the Burlington Park system we never get to the bike path but one of Burlington's some of Burlington's assets are the our park system our North Beach is certainly the bike path and the waterfront we've come a long way since those back in the days so Al Rose there thanks for sharing your experiences folks thanks for looking looking and sharing in what we had to talk about so we'll see you again sometime soon