g value um and i think our overall the the guiding principle is that relationships that are properly supported with consensus building and information sharing mechanisms power growth and it's just an exciting time to be part of this new way of doing business thanks very much thanks very much i'm going to ask some questions then i'm going to ask my colleague michael levitt who's a senior associate here at csis who used to be the president and ceo of cdc development solutions but also was the founding president business for social responsibility it was the author of a very interesting report that we did here at csis around value change to provide a response to the conversation we've just been having but first i want to take a couple questions from the audience so people have questions or comments from the audience now be the moment for those yes please it's a woman here in second row we'll get you a microphone i'm margaret daily haze and a i'm focusing right now on security sector issues but i've covered latin america from just every perspective um i am curious and bill it was your presentation that prompted this but i think several of you have uh contribution and that is how um are these groups sharing information how does it require face-to-face uh using technology especially in your youth experience but i think there are many others well i do share of sharing some of it is in conferencing bringing people together and and showing off in public that you've got maybe two or three international donors from the multilateral and bilateral community not just one and you've got not just one or two companies that want all the branding and excitement themselves but maybe a whole bunch and some of them are big name international types and some of them are local folks and then the cso so they can get to know each other and share and have the government people who are part of it with them um clearly though in today's world once they go home they can stay connected in so many different ways that back when you and i were starting our careers you couldn't even think of of of connecting a local NGO with its own government halfway across from bahia to brazilia or something like that uh let alone to another country uh then it's it's it's publishing in different ways and using social media to push it out the results of your of your measurements and and all so the and and we do and i think several of these folks do an online system of of inputting that information too so that a little NGO is not sending ridiculous reports or maybe they even faxing them as they did 10 years ago but uploading the information right there and then they're part of it and they can access it too so they can feel that they're part of something bigger and i think that's that's very important but when we make it frankly it's open to anyone who wants to see it we we want actually to see a much broader dissemination beyond just the sharing of within our alliance rata do you have any comments on that i think uh you know the the sort of communities of practice and portals are increasingly important both to build cohesiveness you know within the networks as well as to share you know with others so we have sort of a membership based portal where if you're just working on you know it's work in progress you don't necessarily want that shared and you want to just bounce off ideas etc and so with these portals which i'm sure you know others do as well sort of more functionally based so if you're a tester sitting in you know in senegal and you want to understand how to better use a particular protocol in testing a cook stove and you want to connect that you know and get some thoughts and ideas from our chinese colleagues and our you know bolivian colleagues etc so that may not necessarily be open you know to everybody but it's a way of sharing that information very quickly and increasingly you know the point about people you know in a network need to see value if they see sort of quick responses and people are using these it's amazing the amount of traffic you know that's actually in in these online ways of sharing kathy how do you get farmers to change behaviors from one farm to another on what's one question but then how do you take your learning of what you're doing in agriculture in latin america and how do you crosswalk it to africa um farmers will change their behavior much like much like any of us will when they see evidence that there is a benefit to doing so and so one of our most powerful tools is demonstration farms and so that's we've taken those six clonal varieties that we've identified will be the new markets in peru and we are developing demonstration farms to show farmers how to grow it and and what to grow and that's one of the most powerful mechanisms we transfer information across countries um using a couple of ways one is through our partners so we work with mackle haney does tabasco sauce and we're i don't know where we started working with them but now we're in um we're in africa with them we're in nicaragua with them we're in ecuador with them and and they're helping us to increase income for the in peru as well um so we once you have the trust which is an issue has come up a number of times you've got the relationship and we can say to them you know we've been working so well together in nicaragua we've got another opportunity and we can get you good quality chilis um at a good price uh in a traceable value chain are you interested and and because you've proven that you provide value they they often say yes so um you can take that network and just apply it to a new country um we have weekly management meetings at which we share what's going well what's not going well with our projects and and help help one another solve problems um we're a matrixed organization so we also have technical working groups that meet as needed sharing documents and and best practices and lessons learned in terms of another very powerful information sharing tool particularly for youth-based programs is facebook and in el Salvador we have 50 thousand facebook fans who every week trade 300 thousand tips on where is their jobs where is their good training how do you address for an interview how'd you get that job um and that's more than any radio station in salvatore can reach and so we have developed a peer network that's sustainable now it takes two hours a day to monitor that traffic and provide that feedback and that value so it's not free but phenomenally powerful and go where your audience is they're already on facebook don't don't create another network although we do we also use our website you know post all of our manuals for vocational training and all of those okay my colleague from Costa Rica had a comment Rachel thank you i like to make concrete questions and in this environment sometimes a bit awkward but uh to rather um have you for me are you familiar with energy for all uh initiative and have you been in contact or have you somehow exchange information but because i think the two things are very closely related that's that's one question the other question is you mentioned phillips but it could be another multinational corporation how do you make sure or how do you handle the fact that these partnerships or alliances or networks don't play the role let's say for them to get information from the other small producers and maybe they will enter a new market and will destroy the the the market for the small producers i mean it doesn't happen the other way around it's almost impossible for small producers to compete let's say with uh with a big multinational but it can happen that way and for Kathleen um just uh as a word of caution or something when you enter into that being the broker and all of that it's a great example but you acquire some responsibilities because i know examples of in Costa Rica especially in the agricultural sectors that the buyers let's say say okay this and this and this but then they incentivize volumes of production that later they won't buy so they are able to get the prices lower and buy to a lower price and there are all kinds of risks involved so it's it's it's a it's a risky thing i don't know if i made myself clear but you know they they tell you what is the kind of uh i'm not presenting here you know that the multinationals are all bad or whatever but they those are risks that are involved and when you enter into that role then you you you have some responsibilities in that sense maybe the production will be much larger uh the farmers won't be able to sell all what they produced and because they are agricultural products they will go rotten or whatever or the price will be low things like that okay okay great now thank you for those two questions um yes we are familiar with energy for all and in adb runs that in asia sustainable energy for all which we've heard about which is a great welcome addition and the World Bank has three cooking programs as well in different parts of the world so a big part of what we did at the very beginning in determining the sector strategies also to say who's doing what so that we have a clear understanding of both shaping all of those and then deciding what our role is i mean i think it's the beauty of coming in late you know and and being able to say let's see what there is what's worked what hasn't who are the actors and and so far given that we've developed the sector strategy cohesively we've actually been able to then say all right who now takes on different roles here in achieving this so actually it's very nice to to see that we're all working relatively well together so um so i think that that's a good part your second question around multinationals and their role you know it's an interesting sector to be in because it's not immediately very attractive to very large multinationals for a couple of reasons um a cook stove is not a light bulb it's not a commodity product today that can be used equally well you know across every part of the world today when you're looking at the base of the pyramid those who are cooking at the base of the pyramid have very different types of needs in different parts of the world so that's one reason it's not immediately attractive for a big multinational because they can't just come in with you know one product or a variation of those products and say it can be applied to all of these markets you know 500 million households worldwide so that that's one issue the second issue is reach into these smaller communities so yes a big chunk of our 500 million households who need clean cooking solutions are in urban and peri urban areas but close to 50 or more are in rural areas and these large companies today still some do but many do not have those networks to to have that to have that reach so we see actually what's occurring is a very nice necessary partnership between MNCs and SMEs you know to be able to have that full and efficient value chain from end to end the the third issue I would say is service so a cook stove while somewhat simple you know relative to some of our stoves if you will that were used to still has several moving pieces within it pieces that do need to be serviced need to be replaced etc and it's going to be a while before you have a large company that has an office you know in some of these villages and communities that's able to do that so again a fairly nice and and necessary partnership between some of the smaller artisanal players and the larger ones and in the sector I will go so far as to say there are many smaller producers who are coming to realize that they cannot design the stove manufacture the stove distribute the stove and do after-sale service they actually would welcome some of these larger players to both define the product category so people know what the hell cook stoves are and sort of you know and why is this important you know to be able to use that and that and for that actually many of them do welcome the Phillips and others of the world as well. Barbara thanks I just wanted to add to what Rada was just saying and trying to hopefully answer your question I think looking at it from a value chain perspective we we very much work with multinationals when it comes to developing the capacity of second third and four tier suppliers because usually the large companies have development programs for the first year suppliers but then when it trickles down further to the ground then there is no capacity and they as Rada rightly said they often simply elect the knowledge on how to bring these suppliers into the supply chain and actually make sure that they deliver the right product at the right time at the right quality and I think this is very much where we complement each other obviously when we sign partnerships with companies we make it very clear that this is not an exclusive partnership and that our development supplier programs are very much open to also cooperate with other larger companies that could very well be competitors of the partners that that we work with but I think looking it from a supply chain angle this is very much where a lot of cooperation can take place other other comments just to respond to your question it's something we take very much to heart business is business and they're there to buy good product at the best price they can so we've taken two steps to provide our farmers with as many options as possible after all we see one of our key roles is providing with information on options and the capacity to respond to that information the financing and the right variety seeds and the good agricultural practices so we're using an integrated agroforestry model which includes plantain pride shade for the cocoa also provides food for the family and they can sell it for to free to lay and make chips in addition there's the chilies those are both short cycle crops so that's immediate income and then you got the cocoa and then long term you we've also got timber or and or carbon credits by keeping the forestry the forests so we want to provide the farmers with options we also i've mentioned our rajaro by name but we have multiple buyers we're not certainly working with just one buyer so the farmers can sell to romex or you know any anyone that they want it's it's an open open arrangement okay i'm this time i'm going to ask my friend michael levitt uh who's with us here at csis to provide a response to this this discussion that we've been having about value chains and and partnerships michael i'm going to ask you if you would to speak from the dice if you would um normally i would thank you dan but i'm not sure i appreciate this opportunity because usually when you're asked to do this it's to fill in blanks in presentations and i thought these were all fabulous presentations in which at least i was inspired and i don't say that very often but you really did identify the commonalities the difficulties i mean it was extremely helpful to me so let me just throw in that the one piece that was throughout which is the private that there's a private sector piece in all of this um and just for some of you younger in here this conversation would not have happened ten years ago five years ago i don't know how few years ago the fact that the government or ngo world would be sitting here saying we're going to figure out what the core business is the core need of a business and work to that um the organization that dan mentioned that i ran for a number of years a few years ago decided to move away from going after aid funding because we are doing a lot of training programs around SMEs and we felt that AID funding was not tied to the end user who what were we training people for we knew we were supposed to go find out who was going to hire people in the long run and work back from that that's very different and this whole conversation was very different from from that but and i think it's also really important to recognize that the private sector is motivated in a very different way than it used to be as dan said i was the founding president of business for social responsibility 20 years ago when we started the corporate social responsibility movement most companies said we were if not nuts probably doing something illegal because we are saying corporate money should be spent in a different way now everybody has a csr department and in fact i would say one of the things you said was we've got to go beyond csr we want to get down to fundamental business because as we found working with the corporate social responsibility departments is usually those programs are short in duration and let me put this the nicest way you know this year they're funding a great agriculture program and next year the new CEO is really much more interested in the ballet in san francisco and that's where csr money goes i used to say the wife of the ceo was interested in the ballet now so the the ceo is interested in the ballet and that's where the money's going to go you want operations money you want marketing money and you all know that now um now i do want to ask what happens when your corporate partner who is doing wonderful things in the environment does terrible things to their employees in Bangladesh what do you do do you walk out on the partnership do you fire them that's a serious question um because you can be a wonderful company on the hr side and a less than wonderful company intentionally or unintentionally environmentally and how we how you come to deal with these things and these partnerships and networks i think is going to be a very important a very important thing also it seemed to me that in each one of these there was the continuing need for donor money somewhere in each one of these there's not enough to be sustainable and as a private sector guy what i mean by sustainable is profitable so i'm paying my own way and i think in each one of yours you need a you need at least a moment in time in which there's good guy money somewhere in the piece and i don't know is that is that a true fact and if so can we look forward to a time when that's not true in each one of yours when when the system itself is is self-sustaining i was gonna say the one of the big changes for me in the motivation of of business um is the fact that for most of the major companies now the countries we used to see as sources of cheap labor or cheap natural resources are now markets or future markets so that if company that used to care about buying bananas in a company in a country now needs to worry about selling bananas in that country and so that country that company is concerned about the economic health the economic well-being of the people of that country because they wanted to buy the bananas and i think if the more that motivation changes the easier life is going to be but let me let me have you had to deal with if i can ask you that's a good question have you had to deal with one of your partners going bad right getting it did you have to ever get a divorce right well yes by the way but thank you very much i think these are very pertinent questions as you raised and in fact to respond to your first one um first of all before we engage in a partnership we do a very thorough due diligence so we make sure that we know who we are getting to a marriage with having said that obviously that still entails the risk that while we are partnering with them that something can go wrong in that company and also one thing is clear i think there is not a single multinational company on this planet that doesn't have some wrongdoing somewhere in the world the question is also and that is a question we very much argue and debate with within unido is should we only work with the good guys because part of the reason we might be partnering with them is trying to bring them actually to slowly change their behavior and make sure that they are more open to a more responsible way of doing business so i think all of these together yes i mean we monitor very carefully who we partner with and we always also have an exit strategy that is also part of the the MOU that we usually sign with them and there there there can be cases where where this is very much becoming an issue because we simply feel that this is not a partner that is fit to the standards that we want to work with bill i'm sure you going to just ask you to the panelists to take this bill well i think it's a very good one uh we don't stop working with the u.s government just because in the last week or so there have been two scandals too that might parallel what thank you in mexico point point well taken i'll i'll look at it this way when we worked with gap in the nike and nike about 12 13 years ago when their their images were horrible about running of course their images were horrible because they were the biggest and usually the the folks who go after the watchdogs and all who go after you don't go after the little guy you go after the really big big one but when they said they wanted to do something to yes improve their their brand and their image but also to improve their their their workplaces and really what that meant was their supply chains in in asia we said fine but it has to be a multi-year investment has to be a large investment it can't be just a little cute thing that you're then going to spend a hundred thousand dollars on it and then five hundred thousand dollars extolling the nice work you did it has this has to be a serious investment it also had to be a serious and all the money had to be up front and all the money then would be managed by a type of governing structure that had the companies involved but had some outsiders involved including a managing director of the world bank uh as part of it um and then what would happen if shit happens because it will i mean that's a technical term we use it yes yes you know some of the worst fires in garment manufacturing as a result of as a result of cookstones as michael was just you know no one's talking about the fires in new york about a hundred years ago that killed a couple hundred women uh who were working in in similar situations it's what do you do afterwards so we put in place if something happens how are you going to talk about it reveal it discuss it and then that sort of thing and then i will just raise one other thing we worked with two very big companies that didn't go out of business or didn't didn't go bad because they did horrible things they just stopped running their company well we worked for collectively about 20 years in about 40 different countries with over about 70 million dollars worth of investments with nokia and lucent if you haven't checked your stock portfolios most of you don't have them or if you do you're selling them to to offset some of your gains somewhere else and its companies don't make money necessarily forever and some of the worst things that can happen to them as if they go down anyway yeah thanks bill agreed so on on clean cook stoves and yeah things that happen i think there are a couple of things that are important just to add on to what's been said because we agree with all of that i think it's just alignment of vision and philosophy when you're working with any partner but definitely from a corporate partner perspective as well sort of those principles what are they aiming to get out of it what are we aiming to get out of it and most of our corporate partnerships are the ones that take the longest to develop it's actually much shorter to have a bilateral relationship and a relationship with the foundation the corporate ones that are i think what we've all talked about multifaceted multi-year large ones to have impact those could take 18 to 24 months you know really at the minimum to even really come about in a robust fashion and a good part of that is yes the due diligence but also as i'm sure we've all seen you know that that relationship development and those core principles that are going to guide this in in addition to sort of exit strategies and what do we do when things go wrong so i think that that's that's very important i do want to touch on the issue of you know businesses can be run poorly or you know things happen in the in the global world that have negative impacts and suddenly a terrific partner who continues to have a stellar reputation just can't meet their commitment with you you know and and you may have sort of counted on a five-year seven-year multimillion-dollar relationship but their business has just taken a turn and you know year three they can't continue to do that and so for us that's been something real that we've had to deal with as well and how do you when you're balancing your portfolio every year of the interventions that are necessary and what you need to do how do you think carefully about you know and and attach some weight and some risks to these so that you still balance kind of some of the traditional donor input the investment resources as well as some of these corporate resources as well okay Kathy on sustainability i'll give three examples so for the training courses if they're good training courses and they are preparing the youth to get jobs then someone's going to want to continue to offer them because they'll be able to charge for it and so for example our tourism our English for Work for Tourism has been picked up by the Salvadoran Tourism Association and they and between them and the students they're going to continue to offer that course the most of our courses have been picked up by INSAFORP which is the governmental entity that receives a 1% payroll tax in El Salvador they don't do the training they then contract out the training but they pay for it and between INSAFORP and the the trainee most of our courses are picked up by then so it's off ramped into and it'll be offered as long as it's agile and CASATUR and INSAFORP have worked with the business to create that curriculum so that they can keep it agile because our jobs change their jobs change and the competencies to fill that job will change and they need to keep that curriculum up to date for the Peru Cocoa Alliance we are creating a local NGO that is the Peru Cocoa Alliance we are financing it through a 4% fee on financing that's provided to the small farmers so that money is going in and we'll we'll fund the Peru Cocoa Alliance so there's an enormous amount of subsidy and investment in bringing together the alliance but once you've got the relationships and you've got the trust it's a lower cost mechanism to continue it it's still there's still a role to manage this alliance but it can be funded and but you need to develop that funding mechanism early on thanks very much i'm going to just uh i want to thank the panel i also want to thank my friend michael levin i want to give him a chance to do a public service announcement i'd mentioned the report that we had done that he had done here at csis on supply chains i just would like you just to just just reference it if you would michael yes just very quickly there are copies outside and what made me think of it is this is the Cocoa Alliance in Ecuador that we used as a a role model a case study because we wanted to show the incredible power of supply chain in economic development around SMEs and that most of the work that had been done before looked at a sector usually oil and gas and this tried to cross-cut oil and gas tourism ag whatever it was i have one little question i'll be quick you described the Cook Alliance it was different in part because it started as an alliance i mean more than anything else but it also had a here's the solution i mean in the sense of a better cook stove has that been replicated have you identified the 16 things that makes the cook stove alliance different and said what else is what could we use it that model on elsewhere is somebody else looking for replications about that so we are sort of trying to to document some of that it might be something that we're happy to work with CSIS on good okay okay thanks very much folks


The Portland Rotary Club presented the Portland Police Department with a check to cover the cost of purchasing a new police dog for the Canine Union. Makle will join five other teams that are used in a wide variety of police operations. Police Chief Michael Suschuck talked about the benefits of this generous donation. On behalf of the Portland Police Department, we couldn't be happier. I'll tell you that with business folks and community leaders here in the room, we all know how stretched everyone is from a resource perspective. So if you can picture my face as I'm sitting on my desk and John calls me completely out of the blue, and I know John from his support for Memic for our award ceremony on a yearly basis. But John calls and he's talking about the Canine program and wanting to make a donation on behalf of the Rotary. Then I had the opportunity to meet Cyrus and we had a chance to sit down and talk about the entire process. And we weren't talking about amounts or anything else, we're just talking about a donation that the Rotary was so kind to give. And then to find that it was for a full $6,600 which fully pays for Makle was absolutely incredible. I couldn't have been happier. So I was calling everybody on my end. It was like Christmas for our Canine officers. They were tickled to death. It's an incredible resource. I could tell you countless stories about our Canine handlers running miles through the woods with the Canine's tracking lost children, lost elderly individuals, people with autism, people with other mental health issues and being able to track them and bring them home safe. And that's what we're all about. And so today's pretty special. You can see Makle was pretty special. He's not in the least bit concerned about being up here in front of a crowd here today. That's for sure. So Jack is very tickled to death. He's our latest Canine officer. So to be able to have this partnership and know that it came from the Rotary in your support is incredible. Chief, what is this donation of this kind mean to the department? Well, it's an incredible opportunity for us to further enhance the safety of the general public. We have currently five fully certified Canine teams. They're very expensive. They're very valuable to us and to the community. So the opportunity to have another fully functioning dog out there on the road is incredible for all of us. What kind of work do these dog teams do? It varies. Right now Makle is pretty young in his training. He's focused on the patrol side. It's kind of two functions. Patrol would be general searches, tracking, potential apprehension work. And then after that, they'll move into more of drug detection work, where they're actually sniffing out drugs in different venues. And these are very expensive teams to maintain. Is that right? They're certainly very expensive to initially purchase. Makle cost $6,600, which without the Rotary's assistance, we would have been waiting for quite some time to put together enough money to actually purchase another Canine team. So it's important that organizations like this help the police department participate in the community? Yeah, absolutely. And this is completely unsolicited donation on behalf of the Rotary to us, which is important because there's legislation out there around. You know, we can't go out and actively solicit for funds. So to have organizations like this come to us and donate money is just a great thing. Cyrus Hagee is president of the Portland Rotary Club. How did the Doniesha-Finn who Canine team come about? Well, Portland Rotary has a lot of projects we do around the city, around greater Portland area. And we're always looking for something that we can do that is quick, that's beneficial to the community. And the police dog, which has sort of fell into our lap, is what a great idea. They need a new dog. We know the chief. We have a good relationship with Memic. And we all got together and it just happened very quickly. Is this the first time that you've done this sort of thing? It's the first time we've done a police dog with the police department. We have a long relationship with Long Creek and we do a lot of work with the at-risk kids out there. But this is the first time in my knowledge that we've done a project directly with the police department and it will not be the last. You're the new president for a new year starting today. What are some of the projects that you'll be looking at coming up for this year? Well, we're going to do a lot of youth-oriented projects. Obviously, every year we pick a senior from every high school in greater Portland and we give them a scholarship, a book donation, and then allow them to make a donation to their favorite charity. We do soup kitchens. We'll do a Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless at St. Vincent de Paul. We've got our lead fundraising event, the Outdoor Challenge, which is a partnership between the Portland Rotary and the Boys and Girls Club, which in our first year netted over $27,000 that was split 50-50. That money that came from that event, we will then use to give to other organizations to support other projects. We've got a long relationship with the Salvation Army, YMCA, Ripple Effect has been one of the organizations that we supported. We have a relationship with the public schools, mentoring programs out at TAS, one of the programs we used to do, a program where we built houses. That is a difficult market in today's world, so we're going to rekindle that with a much smaller scope-type project with the kids in the carpentry program. Of course, that's near to my heart since I spent my whole life building things, so I'm looking forward to that. If people want more information about Rotary or a little how to become a member, where can they go? Well, you can go to Google Portland Rotary or go to PortlandRotary.org and get more information about Portland Rotary. Rotary International is a huge organization. It is the largest NGO in the world. There are 34,000 clubs, two and a half million members around the world.


You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reed Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reed at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. Kentuckians who have lost family treasures due to the flooding now have a chance of restoring these items and saving these family heirlooms. So we're here at the Pima Disaster Recovery Center in Knot County and we are offering the Save Your Family Treasures Program. So this is a program sponsored by the Heritage Emergency National Task Force or HENCEP for short for a partnership between FEMA and Smithsonian Institution working to protect our nation's cultural heritage. The Save Your Family Treasures Program has offered to flood survivors in order to recover and preserve items such as photographs, books and quilts that have been water damaged. So we find that more often than not the things that people value the most really don't have a whole lot of monetary value. So we're not really looking at salvaging things that are worth a lot like your big screen TV but rather these objects that hold sentimental value and really precious memories for these disaster survivors. Many of the items needed to recover and restore these family treasures can be found in any hardware store. So we always emphasize personal safety so before doing any of these techniques you want to make sure that you're protected yourself. So as you can see I'm wearing these nitrile gloves. We recommend nitrile because oftentimes people will have latex allergies but you want to make sure that your hands are protected especially if you're handling things that may have mold or other contaminants. So we emphasize gloves on safety glasses if you have them. This is just to protect your eyes from any kind of splattering or debris. And then particularly if you're dealing with moldy objects then we strongly, strongly encourage you and emphasize that you wear these N95 masks which everyone is familiar with now because you want to make sure to protect yourself before proceeding to do any of these kinds of techniques. Other materials necessary for the process include disposable turkey pans, non-metal porch screen, a soft bristle brush and distilled water. These demonstrations can be viewed and explained in further detail at the Knot County Sportsplex. We kind of take survivors on demand so if they're just interested in taking some of our handouts as resources that's absolutely fine. We can focus on a particular object if somebody's only interested in photographs we can do a quick five-minute demo. If somebody is interested in a variety of different objects we're happy to sit with them for 30 minutes and talk through more specific stuff so it's really kind of open-ended and we're open to anybody who would like to come. The Save Your Family Treasures program will be available at the Knot County Sportsplex August 16th to August 20th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and August 21st from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.


The City of Fort Worth Office of Emergency Management provides early warning on potential natural and man-made disasters to residents. This presentation will provide information about the different types of warning available to the public. Severe weather conditions are common in north-central Texas during the spring months, but they're certainly not limited to the spring. Tornadoes, heavy rainfall and straight-line winds can sweep into an area along with golf ball or larger-size hail that can damage your vehicle and roofs, destroy crops and kill livestock. The National Weather Service Office, based in Fort Worth, uses data provided by current technology to forewarn residents of potential dangers from severe weather. Gathering data alongside the standard NEXRAD weather radar, CASA radar is one of the region's newest warning systems. While NEXRAD gives a big picture overview of a severe storm up to 150 miles away, the short-range CASA radar will track storms up to 25 miles away, giving high-resolution details about weather conditions down to individual neighborhoods. But radar technology is not the only system we use to provide warnings to Fort Worth residents. We still employ the boots on the ground, or in this case, eyes on the sky method as well. RACES, the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service, acts as storm spotters. RACES is made up of over 500 members and uses a ham radio network to keep local emergency managers and the National Weather Service advised as to what they see. The National Weather Service Meteorologist, local broadcasters and the Emergency Management Duty Officer work together to get the information out to all residents of North Central Texas. Here's how the alert system works. A severe weather threat such as a tornado or severe thunderstorm is identified by NEXRAD weather radar from a distance. The National Weather Service requests storm spotter activation to verify the threat as it moves closer to our city and continues to monitor using both NEXRAD and CASA weather radars. The Fort Worth Emergency Management Duty Officer reports to the Emergency Operations Center and monitors the threat. If the situation warrants, the Duty Officer activates the Fort Worth warning systems. The main warning system consists of 153 outdoor warning sirens. The sirens can be triggered to sound all at once or only in the portion of the city that may be affected by the hazard. Remember these sirens provide warning to residents who are outside. They are not designed to be heard inside homes and businesses. While a number of people believe the outdoor warning sirens are called tornado sirens, they will be activated for several different types of hazards. Severe weather conditions are the leading cause for siren activation by either the Emergency Management Office or the Fort Worth Fire Dispatch Office. Sirens will be activated for tornado warnings from the National Weather Service or the report of a tornado from a reliable source such as a storm spotter, straight line winds of 60 miles an hour or higher, hail larger than one inch in diameter, a man-made disaster such as a chemical emergency, or a state or national emergency. It is important to determine why the warning sirens are sounding so it is recommended that residents seek shelter and seek information. In the event of an activation, the sirens will sound for three minutes. The Office of Emergency Management tests the outdoor warning sirens on a weekly basis weather permitting. The first Wednesday of the month, a 90-second test will be conducted. The remaining Wednesdays in the month will have a 15-second test. If you do not hear your local siren during this test, please report the malfunction to<PHONE_NUMBER>. When you are indoors, NOAA weather radios are an excellent warning device. The radios will set off an alarm triggered by the National Weather Service to warn you of imminent danger from severe weather. Radios with SAME, that's S-A-M-E, technology, can be programmed to sound only when the alerts have been issued for your county. If a power outage occurs during a storm, many radios have options for power, such as battery backup, solar power, and hand crank. If you work in a noisy environment, or cannot hear the outdoor warning siren from inside your home during a severe weather event, you might want to consider joining the city's Nixle Emergency Text Alert Program. Lots of emergency management duty officers will send out text message alerts to smartphones and emails. Thousands of Fort Worth residents have registered for this free alert service. It's as easy as texting your zip code or the word Fort Worth to 888-777, which will register your smartphone. Or you can visit www.nixle.com, that's www.nixle.com, to sign up for smartphone or email alerts. The Office of Emergency Management provides these electronic alerts free of charge, but it is recommended that residents contact their cell phone or data providers to inquire about possible charges. If you or someone you know is deaf, hard of hearing, blind deaf, or use a refreshable Braille reader, and is a resident or work in Fort Worth, the Office of Emergency Management provides a third warning system that is pretty unique. It's a visual alert system named AHAS. The accessible hazard alert system, also known as AHAS, is transmitted in American sign language, the message is verbalized in English, captioned, and a signal is provided for a refreshable Braille reader. Participants must be residents of Fort Worth, or work in Fort Worth and have a video-capable device to receive the free transmissions. To register for this free AHAS program, simply visit www.ftw.ahas.com, that's www.ahasalerts.com. Registration in the Special Needs Assistance Program, known as SNAP, is also recommended for residents with a special, access, or functional need. The voluntary SNAP program consists of a database that provides location, contact information, and information on the person's special, access, or functional need for first responders and emergency management personnel. The City of Fort Worth Office of Emergency Management does not define a special need. We leave that decision up to the individual. You can register in the SNAP program by visiting www.snapforyu.org, that's www.snapforyu.org. This can also receive warning from the Emergency Alert System over local radio and television broadcasts and the National Weather Service NOAA Weather Radios, which can be programmed to receive alerts for your county. The better prepared you are for a possible disaster, the better you will fare if it happens. The Fort Worth Office of Emergency Management is a proud partner in the regional Know What to Do Emergency Preparedness Public Education Campaign. You can get lifesaving safety information by visiting the Know What to Do website at www.knowwhattodo.com, that's www.k-n-o-w-h-a-t, the number two d-o dot com, or thinkprepareact dot com. If you are a new resident to North Central Texas, or have lived here for all of your life, you should know about the local weather conditions we face, and the possibility of a man-made disaster in a large metropolitan area. Most residents will tell you that our main concern is severe weather, with its tornadoes, lightning, heavy rainfall and flash flooding. The Office of Emergency Management recommends residents develop a personal safety plan for themselves and their families, knowing where to go in an emergency, knowing where to obtain information, and having a 72-hour emergency kit on hand is key to weathering a major storm or man-made disaster. Let's start on where you will be able to gather information. There are several choices on how to receive early warnings and official instructions before, during, and after a disaster. It's important to be informed as to what is happening so you will know what to do. Your family should have a communications plan in case you are separated when a disaster strikes. Each family member should know how to contact others after a local disaster. Remember wired telephones and cell phones may be down after a storm. If cell phone service is jammed, you will not be able to speak with each other, but text messages can usually get through. Have your family build a 72-hour emergency kit. If a severe weather disaster such as a tornado were to strike for it worth, it might take three days for first responders to physically reach you. Make sure you have enough food, water, and supplies for every member of your family. If you or a member of your family has an access or functional need, you'll want to make sure you have everything they'll need inside your kit. It is recommended that you have a two-week supply of any prescription medication and any special dietary needs in your kit. An alternate power supply such as a portable generator would be beneficial to keep medications cold and power life support equipment if necessary. You'll also want to make sure that you have adequate insurance to cover any losses you might encounter. Keep a duplicate set of important documents in a watertight envelope in your emergency kit. And don't forget about your pets. They depend on you for their protection also. Make sure your emergency kit has everything your pet will need to weather a storm. For additional information on preparing for a local, natural, or man-made disaster or to find local and federal governmental services, you can visit these websites. This has been a presentation of the Fort Worth Office of Emergency Management.


I'm moving right now Yes friends. Hello and welcome to the music zone with pits quatrone We're broadcasting from the heart of the green mountains in Montpelier, Vermont And the music zone is brought to you by our friends at Aramedd Essentials specializing in essential oils and diffusers CBD tinctures and pain reducing topicals Aramedd is also a hemp flower bud dispensary and they have the glassworks Smoking those buds located at 8 State Street in Montpelier online at Aramedd Essentials comm phone number<PHONE_NUMBER> Also making the show possible is our friends at snapdragon flower farm featuring produce vegetable herb and flower seedlings Early season custom orders are welcome as well as hanging baskets potted flowers tulips for Easter and cut flowers and you can do a cut your own option by appointment only 521 Merrill Road is the address for the snapdragon flower farm in Danville, Vermont online at snapflowerfarm.com and by phone 802-748- 2001 Well joining us this time around on the music zone a guy who plays in pretty much every band in central, Vermont guitarist extraordinaire and Montpelier's own D. Davis Hey, D. How are you? Great tits? Thanks for having me on this is quite the honor It's fun. We have fun and we talk about music we play a couple songs and and the word gets out the music gets out there But thanks for your time who are stopping in today It's great So some folks who may not be familiar with you outside of the central, Vermont area because the show it goes all over Tell us a little bit about your background my background Musically speaking is I've moved to Vermont in 1997. I was living out in the southwest I also before that played in Philadelphia pretty much when I graduated college in 1992. I left and joined the circus So after New Mexico, I toured a little bit with the Dave the The new writers of the Purple Sage and the Dave Nelson band really I never knew that was a great experience and then I Moved back east my family's from New Jersey and a great story I was I was on a plane about a month before that and I was wondering if I should go up to the northwest or the northeast and My mother called from Florida and said my uncle had a dream and he dreamt that I was gonna meet somebody on that plane that was gonna Give me direction on where to go. Geez. So sure enough on the second flight back. I was visiting her in Florida I met a woman who had a little two-year-old who was giving me the eyes and you know Just being really adorable and I started talking to the mom and she had a sister that sang in Santa Fe that I knew And I told her my story and she said you belong in Burlington, Vermont So when I was driving up north and got to Colorado it could either go north up 25 or east towards, you know, 70 Geez, I died There was like a sleet storm came on all of a sudden and I just had 70 east and went back to New Jersey Spent a little time there and then headed up to Vermont in 1997 and I haven't left That's when my my music career up here began in 1999 mark Galbo He was a well-known musician at the time was running an open mic at the cactus cafe in Burlington And he left to move out west and he asked me to take over the the open mic and that's when I started meeting All the musicians in Burlington and then it just became one thing after another after that and And that's when my music career here. I would have to say began. Well, so that's 1997 ish. Yes Okay, cool. And so Musically, well, who are your influence? What influences you? I know you you play a lot of different styles with a lot of different people. What's some of your favorites?  I was honestly really in the progressive rock I was really in the old. Yes old Genesis and that's what really got me in the guitar And then after that I went right to the Grateful Dead and the Almond Brothers and really enjoyed I knew how to read music at an early age, but I didn't really have the eerie yet And all that music taught me how to improv. Yeah, and really Be flexible with music and then I met a gentleman when I moved up here Who was at the school of Berkeley and he was the one that helped me out with all the theory like he's like Do you know what chord you're playing? I was like, no and he was like, well, that's a sharp nine flat seven You know and that got me into learning all that so over the years that all kind of combined and now it's just I enjoy That's why I play in a number of bands because I enjoy all the genres from classical guitar to blues guitar to jazz the swing and I just you know, if I have four shows during the week with four different bands. I don't get bored And you stay busy working. I stay busy working, which you know as a musician. Yeah, you have to find that niche Yeah, you got to be flexible man. Very flexible All right, so full-time musician you are yes, and I've been since I've been since 2009 2009 2010. Okay. That's when I was able to Quit the day job and I I think at that time I was playing in about 10 bands Al Lemory had knee surgeries. So Starline needed a guitar player. I was playing with Myra Flynn Bob Wagner and the Book of Blues band and it just Patrick Fitzsimmons needed a guitar player and then I was just really wearing myself out then. Yeah, and then I decided Let's keep it the three or four Sanity prevails. Yeah, I just kind of honed it in I mean, you know You can only be so all over the place for so long. So all right. Well fast-forwarding to to now Yes recently you Wrote a song and submitted it to help with a big Collaborative collection of songs which I put my hat in the ring as well Yes, but tell us about the song and tell us about first of all, what is the collection and who is it for? It's in memory of Rachel Bessex who was a well-known singer-songwriter in the folk scene in Vermont and I always heard about her ever since I moved here, you know, I was always very curious about her I have to say I didn't get to see her much or hear much of her music But her name was always present in any of the music circles. I was in and out of and I love writing folk music and Being a part of folk music, but I have to say it hasn't been prominent in my life, but I got a message from Lynn Cordozo and She said if you're interested we're having this, you know collection of artists submitting songs and in memory of her and You know, they have a it's great because during a pandemic, you know, they have gig money So if you know, they're gonna select I think 25 Vermont artists that they are gonna Donate $100 to further submission of the song So it got me going when I got the message and I hadn't written a song all year I've been busy with my seven-year-old the teaching him music and he knows everything and Helping him with school because he's in virtual school But as it was getting closer to the date the deadlines April 1st about a week ago I had been working on a song on and off for the last few months and it's called unconditional love I mean during this time for for me. My family has gotten a lot closer There's been a lot of positive things from this pandemic for me personally I do miss hugging people and I miss a lot of the things but In a positive retrospect, it's really done some wonderful things for me and my family and I Just sat down a few days ago and it finally came together and I just recorded it on my phone and submitted it So coming here to join you on the show was like out of the thousand things I could do. I was like, I think I'll share This song today because it's fresh. It's right out of the oven and there might be one word flub So excuse me, but um, you know, we do our best when we don't rehearse. So all right. So this is unconditional love By D Davis here on the music zone Up above is this love Stars are bright Through the night. I just might Stand inside me Restore there's a play with unconditional love There's a fade in us Where love is rising up and change Play inside Up above D. Davis on the music zone. It's his original tune unconditional love part of the Rachel Bissick's collection of songs that is happening right now online and So D moving a little bit back Through the pandemic early on middle of that Everyone's getting creative as far as like, hey, how do we earn some money because live gigs are just not happening So everyone goes online does the virtual concert thing that type is live in your living room But I have to tell you you are one of the most creative online artists I've seen because It's not just like Friday night at 8 o'clock. D's gonna play a concert. No It's I got a list of things that you've done online and almost on a regular basis And I think they're fantastic and we have morning music with D. Davis lullaby songs classical guitars in your pajamas outside of your house on St. Patrick's Day a Collection of songs. I mean this is beautiful stuff And I guess it's like you have to adapt and in do make do for yourself My son once dubbed the name a great name for a band. He said would be pretty little dress rehearsal So we kind of see life like that and so I never announced the shows, you know It's seven o'clock and on Tuesday, you know, I just when the feeling comes and my son's very helpful with that too Like he'll come downstairs. I'll show him this wah-wah pedal I haven't taken out of the closet in ten years and he'll plug it in be like we got to do a live stream right now And I'd be like, well, we have nothing rehearsed and he's like, well, what would Pete Townsend say? So I'm like hit the go button And so he's very helpful with that but I that's how I kind of live my life I mean anybody that plays music with me in any of the bands They know me well for this I and I also sometimes like purposely book shows with somebody, you know unrehearsed I tried to book one with you. Yeah, and I love booking shows unrehearsed and just Letting that happen cool. And you know, like I said before you take a risk You know, you might bomb some but to me if you bomb or you hit a wrong note that to me sets up this Thing that Dwayne what happened with Dwayne Almond a lot or other musicians I love where they they come back stronger Garcia Garcia exactly and you come back stronger from that Flob and so I like putting Music in the moment. Yeah, and letting it breathe and you know be this raw Unpredictable thing because I like both things about music the science and the mathematics of it and also the mystery and the unknown and I think when you can Blend those two and have a relationship with those two. That's where the magic is. Absolutely. Yeah well, you have to take a risk to Explore or find something incredible. Exactly. It may not work every time but when it does man, that is absolute magic. Exactly. You know We're preaching to the choir for each other here, but it's cool We got that with us for me. My experience was the Grateful Dead Yeah, those guys they taught me how to listen Adventurously exactly first and then from there you build exactly so that's so cool So you mentioned your son Flynn is his name. He's seven years old seven years old. Okay, and there's something else I have here On your list of virtual events. You know Flynn and D's music school Yes, that might be something that might be in the works I mean I I do teach music and I consider myself more of a music teacher than a guitar teacher I play every instrument So I just try to guitar is my main instrument But I try to teach music in a way where let's let's learn how to read it first. Let's learn what the notes mean Let's learn what all that means because then you can teach yourself It's like that old saying, you know do you want me to teach you how to fish and Do you want to learn how to fish by yourself? You know and be able to catch your own fish So with Flynn I he's my it's not that it's an experiment But for the first seven years I let him just play And feel it as he says good, but then I'm teaching him now how to read notes And you know I get a lot of arguments and protests But you know it's teaching me how to teach people like that because I have a few six seven year olds and They like to play like you know, let's see how much I can get away with this before he You know gets on my case. So with my son He's now learning how to read the music and now learning tempo and and now it's that you know Approach of doing both like I said before and he's he's getting it So now I think with the pandemic it's a little hard But there might be some opportunities for me now to get kids together and teach them how to play together And also maybe get the parents involved and have the parents and the kids playing together Um, it's not as difficult that you think I just gifted my wife a cello for Christmas Because she always dreamed of playing the cello and it's like well, it's not too late And so she's just learning how to bow those open strings while we're playing You know, you are my sunshine or let me call you sweetheart any of the wonderful old Songs that are only three chords and she's getting it, you know, and that's where it starts. So Even though I teach individually, I think I might try to start moving into teaching People how to play together and making that part of me, you know a music school So it's everything's in the making like you said, we're trying to get creative during this time And you know, I don't know if things are going to be safe next fall When you know we and if we can't be indoors, I'm going to have to find a way maybe to teach virtually how People can play together. Yeah. Yeah, how to sync up on rhythm how to sync up on timing. Yeah To me, it sounds like it's benefiting everyone including you the teacher Yeah, awesome. Yeah, so we're going to jump over to the music studio now and tell us what song we're going to hear Ah, I was really happy to pick this. So pits is joining me on this on on the didgeridoo and This is a song in the key of D. This is the first song off my album hopeful Which is the beautiful painted cover right here by Brooke Monty of burlington. It's an instrumental album I did with jody peterson here at cliff house studio if we had a nice barter I painted most of her closets in a couple of her rooms and she let me record all this music in her studio Beautiful. She did a wonderful job and it's 11 songs. It's all instrumental but besides the last one so I chose the first instrumental because D goes well with the didgeridoo and I wrote this song from my mom when she Was about the last week or two of her life and I was spending time with her I was at my uncles in new jersey overlooking the river in the ocean and he had like a little perch really up high And I was just up there by myself and the song like came through me Nice kind of a thing and then luckily I remembered it And then it's it's my paying homage to my beautiful wonderful mom who really taught me so many things as all moms do And uh, it was my tribute and and the title of the song is called homage This is homage d davis on the music zone with pits quattrone Welcome back to the music zone with pits quattrone. D davis is uh the guest today Beautiful song there homage for his mom with yours truly on didgeridoo seems to work nicely with that combination Yeah tour is coming up soon We'll just do that song for like an hour Thank you. Good night I'm in You booked the gig. I'll be there. I'm in homage. All right. So d davis guitars in the Montpelier area Before we go any further. I want to know tell people how they can get in touch with you how they can hear your music Where do they find you? Okay? So d davis, uh, I'm on facebook. I I recently got on facebook And it's de on facebook because I couldn't use the letter But you also see just d davis the letter And then I'm noticing there's a lot of d davis is out there So I had to use ds davis for like my gmail ds davis music at gmail.com Um, so those are the ways you can get me. I had a website for a while But it just wasn't working out for me for but I think um talking to you about the music school and some other ideas I have I might Invest in something like that but for right now you can find me on social media as de davis Or any of the wonderful bands I play in which is red hot juba The lark spurs and cookies hot club. You can all find them online. We all have websites just by typing in the band name Okay, say those bands again. Yep. The bands are red hot juba cookies hot club and the lark spurs Okay, cool all with d davis on guitar and various and various other instruments. Yeah Excellent that sounds good and uh, so Uh Real quick. We're almost out of time. But if you can describe what are you doing this summer? You have some plans for the next few months. Yeah, I'm very fortunate even last summer during the pandemic I know a lot of people like tom moog and johnson and moog's place in morrisville and the zen barn And all these clubs that have an outdoor You know patio or something. Yeah where we can have live music So I was able to actually still play live music, you know, four to five gigs last summer and Already everything's booking up for this summer. So wow and you know I'd be more than happy to play at the end of your driveway. I can come serenade. I can come play classical guitar I'm open to anything but um, yeah, all the bands have been booking lots of concerts on the green from brandon to middle sex um And any club that has an outdoor option like moog's joint or the zen barn or A few others That of course I can't think of right now. Um, so I'll be playing with red hot juba or mart martels is another one in jeffersonville I'll be playing with red hot juba the larkspurs and cookies hot club at all these venues if you want to see what's going on Just check out their websites and all the dates will be there. Okay, so folks can find you easily Yes, and you can just yeah, just give me a call or just message me on that that thing called facebook I think there's something called instagram too. I've been hearing about this thing this new thing called instagram So, uh, maybe I'll figure out how to use that at some time. We'll see I actually think it's instant grand. Oh, it is And you can always use the good old-fashioned telepathy. I'm always there for you telepathically tuning in Any time of the week you want to have a word we can we can tune in with each other beautiful All right d davis. I want to thank you again for stopping by it's been a wonderful Conversation and great playing music with you and just thanks for coming by the music zone. Thanks pets. You got it I really appreciate it. All right friends that wraps it up for today But I want to mention our sponsor once again aromid essentials in downtown montpellier specializing in cbd tinctures and pain reducing topicals Essential oils and diffusers Aromid is also a hemp flower bud dispensary and they have the glassworks for smoking those buds eight state street is the address downtown montpellier online at aromid essentials dot com and by phone<PHONE_NUMBER> And please mention to aromid essentials as well as our friends at snapdragon flower farm in danville that you Heard about them right here on the music zone with pit squadron Friends that is it for this week this Program and this episode. We will talk with you next month. Thank you for tuning in and take care


This is the SF Productions podcast network 60s and 70s television Welcome to vast wasteland Welcome home. Welcome to vast wasteland the video journal of 60s and 70s television I'm Mark Schmidar along with Wilbert Neal and Marty Wiley Well tonight, we're gonna be talking about those geniuses Sid and Marty cropped But first off I want to tell you we're on Tuesdays at 6 Wednesdays at 10 and Thursdays at 3 p.m. Here on a CTV cables what he went Also, if you want to write into vast wasteland just write box 15 14 11 Columbus, Ohio 4 3 2 1 5 Well, let's see before we also before we jump into the show just again More kudos if you missed last show and you didn't and you didn't see the new opening there It is again the new opening and we want to thank David Park the man in there incredible just one of the many Dave's on the show and The work is still continuing on on the on the new backdrop so We end all the paint you have Having a telephone later for that the paint of that's right paint of fun. Yeah, anyways sit and Marty cropped Wilbert, what's your first point for the evening? Well by golly back in the the late 60s there was a Movie that was a an adaptation of a Charles Dickens movie And it was a musical adaptation which was totally unusual for that kind of thing But still they did it. It was Oliver. That's right now So what basically what I'm gonna mention here is the so what? That's true it introduced that a child star who a British child star too, but Played the artful Dodger in that and his name was Jack Wilde and Well by golly. What was it a year or maybe was it? It was about a year after Oliver came out and was going real strong that um this new show showed up on TV And it was The Jack Wilde show. Well, almost That was called the Jack Wilde show HR puffin Being guys you would not understand what a major heartthrob he was for like a Seven or eight year old you knew you were too young for Davey Jones, but here was this guy about your size with that accent Yeah, but I but I heard recently. He's not doing very well and in Robin Hood. Yeah, he's But before me Have been just before that I don't know but there was on entertainment tonight or something They were doing the the where are they now could type thing and he wasn't doing very well at the time So basically you've got this show HR puff and stuff about this this this boy named Jimmy hi Jimmy And his his magic flute Fwetti Well Freddy actually but he can never quite say Freddy so it always was Fwetti His magic talking flute and well diamond studs. Yes. It was just an amazing thing So anyway Anyways, let's go on he was amazing talking flute and what happened was well one day He's just outplayed his flute and tripping lightly over the hills and everything and he sees this magic boat And the boat says come along with me Jimmy come along with me And I'll take you on a trip far across the sea But the boat belonged to a kooky old witch who had in mind the flute to snitch and from her vroom vroom in The sky she watched her play materialized She waved her wand and the beautiful boat was gone the skies grew dark the sea grew rough and the boat sailed on and on and on Tough and stuff was watching to and knew exactly what to do He saw the witches boat attacking as the boat as the boy was flying back He called his rescue racer through as often days rehearsed and off to save the boy They flew but who would get there first by now the boy is washed ashore puff arrived to save the day Which made the witch so mad and so she shook her fist and screamed away. Hey, hey, HR puffing stuff Took me a long time to figure out exactly what puffing stuff was Yeah, I'm told you don't look dragon Lizard. That's good.  Yeah, that's too big Well, he was a dragon Was a documentary Well, anyway, and um the witch was witchy poo play by Billy Hayes who The movie they had a whole bunch and mama cast was in the movie. Yeah, I think she was witch hazel or Another witch thing Witch thing is there was dr. Blinky the owl. Yeah, who he had all these talking things in his office The book the skull the skull with the candle On the candle, let me see didn't he have beakers that talked or something like that everything talked that would get on my nerve Everything on the island was basically alive when you get right down to it everything on the island was alive everything could talk because they had trees on that island that were like People trees Coming up And the tree with the big glasses and I remember we had that that singer that big. What was it a bird or a hippopotamus or something that was the singer Yeah, like I said those things could be it was like a big thing ahead with they had this afro I remember she used to do a Thing right after show came on talked about puffin stuff was brought to you by toy maker toy maker hasbro That's who remember hasbro toys boys and girls. Oh, they made gi joe One of those big huge toy Beatrice Beatrice can glomerate type things And then there was the vulture the vulture in the um In the castle I want to say seymour, but I don't think that's right. That could be it But I don't know because there was another show with seymour in it. Well, they could have been veni seymours It's all right, but anyway giant spider thing. Yeah, was it a spider thing? It was a we don't know We don't know. Well, let's move on now. That was the 69 brothers Say it could have been or were they fake brothers like the smothers brothers Now I suspect it's sitting marnie croff.  Yeah The whole show was nothing but big heads What do we got next They weren't just big heads, they were big heads, but before that there's the bugaloo The infamous bugaloo. Yeah, are we going chronologically? Oh, yeah chronologically here. Okay, the bug You know the bugaloo's the bugaloo's the in the air and every there flying high flying loose flying free of the summer breeze Happy as a summer breeze. Yeah, he's got a little lightning, but he was a little sparky the lightning bug Well, feel like feel like sella was on uh hr puff and stuff. He was probably one of the little little police guys Probably feel like sella who went on to do the wonderful things like um, tweaky That's right the robot on buck ride Of course, he didn't have his own voice and it was no blank voice, but well there we are every time There's a robot or something in a car too. You can't expect it to have its own voice You got to give it another voice like david prows and uh, james roll jones, but well, there we are Okay, um the bugaloo's the bugaloo's were little they were bugs And they uh, well they were people who dressed up as bugs for the show And they had a neat a neat bugaloo car, which is another one of the great george barris, uh made for tv cars Which did the uh the auto cars That's right But it was the bugaloo car it was just great now this one starred bonita bazaar who was martha ray She was the evil star Well, I doubt if you you're watching We can only dream I mean if she will be will be more than pleased if she does if she wants to come on the show and personally My Who else was that was there somebody who like they sang on that show right they were they were like a band of bug people Right exactly. Yeah, that's right. And none of these names mean anything to Oh, that's too bad. It means something to somebody. Joy harmony courage and iq those were the four bugaloo's iq the smart one Was courage the courageous one or the cowardly one who cares And harmony why that was the girl, right? Well, that was the guy joy was the girl Hello Oh, okay The inhabitants well, it's the um, okay, um, they lived in tranquility forest The inhabitants the bugaloo's were four musically inclined bees who buzzed in perfect harmony. Although I think they were bees How do I think one of them was a one of them was a grasshopper if i'm not mistaken. Why were they called the beagleers? It's so raw the tongue is easily Well, they were all different kind of bug insects, but um, then what happened then what was the show Talk about the stupid hat show yet. There was also a bad on that show. I believe I was confused that helped the martha rake here.   Here's a little um African explorer hat. Here's a john wane hat. I remember the john wane hat He would always come in and talk like that.  He fell into the hat Yeah, it ended up in lidsville Where the um the magician was actually who do who was the evil magician of lidsville played by Charles nelson riley Yeah, where is he now? He's still doing the match game 2000 or whatever it's called now That's game the next generation And hey, what a Sid and Marty cross favorite people billy haze was back in this one playing weenie the genie Really be proud to go home. I'm a playing weenie the genie That's probably just a high a high point of her life Well, what else we got in it? Well, there is another one in it's not even in here. Well, I am shocked Oh, he's shocked now didn't Sid and Marty cross when Kings Island first opened they had Shows there. Yeah, that's that's how I remember seeing one in particular that used to crack me up It was a big duck And it was supposed to be bet middler came out and did this Campy act of course had great big Test on it and when it danced it just it was hilarious I think they called her duck middler even And she used to come out and then the big theater there collapsed and they didn't have it anymore Don't ride on her. It was a tragic thing Just during the winter the duck was flew south Okay, and then when they decided that darn it. It's time to really start There was a big push in the mid 70s. I think because there were I think the action for children's television and some of those groups we're looking at and saying You're really putting out dippy cartoons now, which they always did and they always have and now they're dippier than ever but They said how about some live action stuff? So well not that these weren't live action the other things weren't but they just weren't realistic They decided well, we'll have some actual more than one person in the show. We'll do land of the lost Great show, which was basically about a family Well, I heard I heard an explanation for this is just cracking me up It was a little kid that came up with the idea for this show.  You've got cave people.  Well, he could talk and the other sleet stacks just kind of You mean chaka could talk? That was one that was um From the future and i'm trying to remember exactly what it what it tie was into um George decay either. Well, not george um water canik Yeah, he either wrote some of the shows or he did the voice for this dars lisa. I think he wrote some of the stuff Okay Anyway, it was into the bid it was just really it was really writing this it was really odd Well, it was so odd that they're remaking it. That's right. They've remade a new land of the loss The new land of the loss is out again. It's on this season the well 91 92 I don't know it's on too early in the morning cartoon season and basically, um, they've improved the idea a little where it's um Still the family this time they were out in the desert and they got caught in an earthquake And the earth opened up and so they fell and fell and fell Into a land that's displaced from time And so there's big there's bigger nastier dinosaurs and more evilsly second It wasn't ever your your chaka always he looks a little better too because before he looked like um, he looked like clinton howl But now he he looks much better. He's much better now Hair pushed way Me pushed way back Oh, he is now it was just the shape of things to come Too much tron yet Oh all these obscure references they're back there George decay who are these people? And then well by golly we get to the mighty 90s 1976 Where there's The big the big um, the big super hero boost is still going on here. And so they decide they're going to have the croft super show Because I think the other thing was I think they were just saying none of these concepts are really good enough Even even for a saturday morning tv by themselves by themselves So if they don't work we can just yank it and put another one in Basically, we'll just combine a lot of ideas and see how well they do together So you have this croft super show which is hosted by captain cool Oh era singing group Oddly enough Oddly enough. I saw a puzzle of captain cool and the Kong's on it at a local toy store And there was wonderbug a broken down heap of a car that could transform into a heroic crime fighting vehicle Not that that hasn't been done Hannah Barbera started that whole thing and by golly look look what came of it night writer Wow Then there's dr. Shrinker Who was basically your mad scientist guy who had a beam that could shrink people It was kind of like the name He was forced to endure by fate You know, I got the name dr. Shrinker. I better build a shrinking range. Yeah It's like, you know, maybe maybe that's what Well, I won't say that It's a family And then there's a lecture woman and dyna girl Play Diedra hall I become What is that days days of our children or whatever that show is What's what's the Diedra hall and days of our lives is days of our lives? Yeah Does that mean that she's been on that show for years but it isn't that or maybe during that maybe during a hiatus or another something Doing that darn doing that darn Electro woman and dyna girl And this dyna girl looks awfully familiar too, but Judy strangest. Okay Yeah, not that we've ever heard of her before since but you know, she's just got that familiar here Yeah, she just looks like every American girl Oh This was about the time I guess that well, I also was out around that time Other other networks were doing things like shazam and mighty isis. So this was there. Yeah This was their addition there Is basically just a whole lot of ideas chunked together ideas that might not have worked by themselves And chunked them all together They're gone So well by golly, I guess that's really all that didn't worry. Well, no, they did something else What was that? Just couldn't tell you this probably involved big head They they must have I'm sure they did another thing though. I I think you're right and I'm gonna see if I can find it Let's see. I'm sure they kept Billy Barney employed for another season. I think it was almost a night time show Yep, that's right, but I cannot remember what it was just to save me. Was that good. Yeah blew your mind Yep. Well, not me over smack my face Martha Ray I can't remember what it was Well, that's just too dark bad And they're just sitting out there. You know, Sid and Marty Crawford sitting down the edge of their seat. Come on Come on What is it another show that the crop puppets were on was that darn bourbon man drill show? Hey, that's true Not in the um in the vein of the um, who knows the old the old jimmy dean show that used to have Rolf Well, I'd like to drag out old h.r. Puffin stuff wherever he is Of course, that's your local library. You can find those h.r. Puffin stuff tapes So it's poor deprived children who never see never seen h.r. Puffin stuff And probably won't never see a friend when things get rough. That's right Go to your local library check out the tapes can't do a little because he can't do enough. That's right Such a hero. Well, that was probably my favorite just because jack wild was on And I was a little kid. Well, I really like the nifty songs that they had but well there we are how nifty They were nifty. What was the 60s and 70s? They were nifty Well, it looks like that's all the time we got for vass wasteland. Thank goodness because we just ran out of material So funny how those things work out like that hard to believe. Well next time on vass wasteland. It's school shows I have no idea what it means. So find out together. We'll find out next time And since we couldn't seem to find some sort of uh We couldn't seem to find a a tape of any of the sit-in marty croft find songs We're gonna have a live rendition of one of the songs Go ahead birdie a reading actually i kind of like a kind of like a literary reading take it away mr. Neal In the middle of the summer in the middle of a park there began a great adventure for a guy whose name was mark He had come to see the magic man along with all the children and was so began the day that mark was never to forget He performed all sorts of miracles and mark was so impressed that when the time arrived to go He lagged behind the rest And quietly he did return the secret of the hat to learn but everyone had gone away and darkness felt the place The moment that he touched the hat the room began to glow And as he put it down and ran the hat began to grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow He was stunned and he was fascinated But still he had to see there was something deep inside the hat. What could that something be? Well cautiously each step he took he climbed upon the brim to look and all at once the hat began to shake and rock Look out Falling falling into the hat. He fell spinning turning twirling twirling And looney looked into the sky he couldn't believe his ears rise Oh lidsville is the cuckoo cuckoos lidsville is the kicky kickiest lidsville is the gruger groovy is lidsville Is the living in friends if you get a chance to go go there you'll be glad you did because Everyone who goes to lidsville really flips his lid Good night everybody