the What's Neat Show is sponsored by Lombard Hobbies. Your value hobby shop for over 40 years of modelers helping modelers. Big inventory, value pricing, fast shipping, and great service. And by Broadway Limited Imports, the cutting edge leader in model trains. Check out their website at Broadway-limited.com. And by Bachman Trains. Now that's the way to run a railroad. Check out their website at BachmanTrains.com. And thank you for helping us support the best hobby in the world. This is What's Neat for September 2023. I'm your host, Ken Patterson. And this month, we've got a really good show in that. We look at some beautiful locomotives from Broadway Limited. We've got some F units this month, an N scale that I photographed outside, and also some T1 locomotives. Absolutely gorgeous streamlined locomotives in N scale with that Paragon 4 sound and all the bells and whistles now that seem to be normal in N scale. Also this month, we finish part three of the layout construction segment, where we're building this HO scale, HO narrow gauge scale layout that I call the Blackstone layout. It's a size layout that'll fit in any man cave. It's like eight feet by three and a half feet wide. And it's got a bit of a dog bone curve to it. It's just a beautiful layout in part three of this month's layout construction. Also the wonderful folks from Bachman Industry stop by. We've got Larry Harrington that shows us some of the new products for this month. And it's absolutely always a treat to hear what they are coming out with new before everybody else on the What's Neat show. Also be sure to check out the What's Neat this week video show podcast that we record down here in the studios every Saturday night, keeping you updated on what's new in the hobby with special guests and our wonderful regular podcast crew. It's a great show to keep everybody updated on this, the best hobby in the world. And so with that, let's continue on with the rest of this September 2023 What's Neat. For this segment of What's Neat, I've got to share with you some beautiful models that I am shooting this afternoon out on this gorgeous, absolutely fantastic day with cool weather. Starting out, these are all again end scale models from Broadway Limited. And I am shooting these beautiful Streamline T1 locomotives that the Pennsylvania Railroad had manufactured. They were produced around 1942 and they're absolutely exquisite. Now these are not articulated locomotives. These in fact have a rigid frame on them, which gave them excellent pulling power. And the Streamline effect on these is absolutely beautiful. Broadway Limited makes this model in five different road numbers and also in an undecorated sample you can purchase. Also, they make three fantasy paint schemes, of which I have one of them here, this beautiful silver locomotive with the red stripe. They also make it in brown, a beautiful brown, pencey paint scheme and also in green, a very dark green. They've got extraordinary detail on them, just all the piping, all the pumps. Everything is there to be had. These come with Paragon 4 sound. They've come with capacitance, capacitors built in so they don't stall on dirty track. They're absolutely just gorgeous models. They've got plastic exteriors with all the full detail on them, but the interior is solid die cast. So you've got tons of pulling power with these units. They track really well on all codes of track, code 70, code 55, end scale track. They're absolutely beautiful in that you can find these on the Broadway limited website, which is a new and improved website. They're absolutely beautiful models and I wanted to share them with you because again, they put so much work into the fidelity of these end scale models.  Also today, I'm shooting some F3s, F units. I've got them in Missouri Pacific and I also have them in the Frisco paint scheme. Now these models also have Paragon 4 sound, the A units are powered, the B units are dummy units. These are available in 14 different paint schemes that you can find on their website. They've got the lighting effects in them and also all of these models that I'm showing you today are available in their Stealth series so that if you choose, you can put your own decoder in them, either sound or non sound and run them on the layout. They'll run on DC, a regular DC power pack right out of the box. But again, if you put your own decoder in it of your choice, your sound system of your choice, you can again run these on your layout with full DCC and everything else that we're so used to in this hobby. It's absolutely amazing. Again, the fidelity that the manufacturers are able to make in end scale and Broadway limited has done an absolutely fantastic job on these. Paragon sound sound system matches the prototype whereas they've recorded prototype sounds of the various units so that they match the models exactly. I thought they were so exquisite. I really wanted to share them with you as I'm doing this photo shoot today, just a beautiful day with a lot of beautiful models. Check them out at the Broadway limited website and or you can purchase them at Lombard Hobbies up in Lombard, Illinois. Thank you very much the folks that help us support this show. And with that, that is the segment for what's neat. Put the dirt down. And now I'm putting down very fine creek stone for the ballast. Just like we did to the other side when we finished the other side. Put down some ballast over here in the industry, just a little bit of rock to hold the ties. Absolutely take a one inch brush very gently just testing off the ties on top. I'm spreading out the ballast and filling in the blank spots in the middle between the tracks. By laying the brush down on its side, it gives me a real smooth kind of a drag as if you're using a broom for the brushing of the ties on with the ends of the brush. Put a lot of grass and weeds in this yard with that static grass. Kind of cover up these tracks a little bit. Okay, I've applied the ballast and brushed it in. I dropped in just a little bit more woodland scenic screen here. I use a static gun afterwards when this is wet and drop in some dry dead grass. I wanna point out that I've got these covered up. The switch points are cleaned out with a brush and covered out so that I shouldn't have any glue problems messing up the switches, which truly woodland scenic cement is permanent stuff. You don't wanna get that in your switch points. So everything's ready if you get glued. Here comes the glue. Okay, so that's it. Everything's been glued. Switches are protected. No glue on them, all the track points. I can just put a little drop of water too in there to make sure that there's no glue setting up around the switch points when I pull off the tape. Everything's ready to just try now. I'm ready to put the oak sides on with this finished and finish the turntable area. The scene is still wet. I'm putting a nail in the scene because I forgot to talk about static grass. So here's our static grass gun that's on and I'm gonna put some dead grass in this yard. I'm grounded by the nail and the cord. Combs, this is coming out straight, standing up straight, look at that. And now just wonderful how that works. That's how you apply static grass. Now that I've finished the top electronics and the scenery and the track, I'm ready to start thinking about putting the wood sides on this. Now in order to attach the oak around this curvature, I'm gonna put a lot of these small boards into the foam, into the groove that we carved. I've discovered I really like this gorilla glue for this. So I'll dip the piece of wood in a bowl of water. I'm gonna spray the channel where the board's gonna go with a little bit of water to wet it. I'm gonna put this glue on the top. Very, not thick, but very thin. Even, complete coverage, but thin. And this glue's gonna expand about four times its own size without pushing out the blocks. It does not push out the blocks. And then we'll take and wipe it off the excess and just keep working all the way around the diorama the same way. Just take the small pieces of wood and drip them in the water. Make sure everything's wet so that the glue's activated by the moisture. Get the part and put it in here. And by the time I get 30 of these blocks going all around this corner, it's gonna be very strong surface for me to staple the plywood into. So I'm not just depending upon glue on the curvature that I really don't think that would hold because this plywood will be under a little bit of pressure. So that's the way we're gonna do that. To round the edges of the wood and to get off the excess polyurethane glue. Piece of wood here that's cut at the same height as where the blocks are. So as long as I put the gun right here, it's gonna get water going on. All situations wet, it expands about four times. So it's gonna fill all the gaps in here. There's a lot of extensive glue. So wherever that touches, that's gonna hold like a rock. What I'm doing now is I'm drilling out the pilot holes for the switches on the side. Okay, so after you saw me drill the holes for the switches with the drill press. What I'll do is I'll draw some lines around here. And I'll carve this and I'll make this just perfect. All the circles just right. I'll draw it first. But right now this board is cut exactly the length. It's very, very tight now, but when this piece gets sandwiched in, it's gonna just be perfect. So everything's just right. I just need to finish off the woodwork around the edges and then I'll glue this piece in next. Man, I'll finish the woodwork all the way around. And then what we'll do is we'll take a trimmer and we'll run the trimmer along the edge or the wheel on it. And that'll cut all the topography in the wood all the way around the diorama. Okay, first I'm gonna draw the lines for the top two circles where they're gonna match. That'll be a nice top and round edges. I need to go lower down here. Glass is there for that. So I'm gonna match up a circle the same size I drilled it out. I'm gonna bring it down to there when I just drill. Check my work. Good, I'm gonna draw my circle right there. I'm gonna do the same on the other side. I just wanna take that nice curved edge we have and take advantage of it and keep doing it. Got a lot to play with here too. Exactly the eraser, pull away the wood. I can see the height of the eraser's right. I'm using my pencil as my visual measuring guide. And it's working.  I'm gonna put this on the small table saw, jigsaw. And the scroll saw. Cut it out that way. Should just match up the bottom and it should just be perfect. And when I pull this wood off, I'm just gonna double check and make sure I've got the plexiglass for this. I'm sure I've got the real estate underneath this and black plexiglass where it'll cover that whole nice oval that we've got going. Just scrub the edges here.  Not that it has to, but why not, right? I'm lining this one up. My circle diameter is one and a half inches. It's the same size cutting bit that we used a little while ago to cut these circles. This one's just about drawn perfect. Looks good on this one. So that's two, finished. Okay, I've got all my lines drawn. If I drew my lines right, this should be easy, it should match up. All right, I'm just gonna sand this piece that we cut right before I put it in. I wanna just get a nice smooth edge on this one because I don't think my center will do an inside curve like this once it's installed. But if I cut everything right, this will fit just in here just right without any nails right now. We'll just curve right in there. There she goes. That's what I want to hear. There you go. That's flush and when these all get stapled in, you have your nice curvature that'll come out. Switches lined up, look at that. Ready to go. Black stain, here we come. Okay, I've moved the layout outside now and what I'm gonna do is take this laminate trimmer which it's got a ball bearing on it and then it's gonna just simply trim and cut right along the edge of the diorama so that I can get all the contours because as you can see the plywood's straight and we got a deep gorge where the bridge is, for example. So just follow this all the way around and it will work the contours and make them just beautiful on the edges. You can see why we took it outside for that process but what you end up with is a perfectly nice contour jaggedy, I'll smooth it out with some sandpaper. It's just gonna be a really nice way to finish off the edge of the wood. I really don't know any other better way to do it than to do it this way on especially on the round curves because to do this with a jigsaw ahead of time would have been an impossibility. It would have been very difficult. It's much easier to bend the wood, put it in place and then go ahead and take the trimmer and trim the edges like we've just done. One thing I wanna do is I wanna sand the diorama. So I'm gonna sand all the way around the edges and then I'm gonna come back on a Philly's holes with a little bit of wood putty. I'm gonna sand over that, final sanding and it'll be time to put some black stain on this thing. Okay, it's about six hours later and I've applied my first coat of black stain to this and it's already dried. You need a second coat of this mixture. What I do is I take two bottles of black, engine black, floccal paint and then I dump it into the ebony stain from Minwax oil based stain and it gives you a real rich black coverage but it still has always taken two coats on every diorama. As first coat, if I didn't coat it it would probably come out sort of a golden color, black and golden but I want this whole diorama to be completely black. So other than that, this is coming out very well. I'm gonna spray just a little bit of paint on top some camouflage brown from Restolium just to weather up the yard area. The gravel is just too bright. I wanna weather that up just a bit. So one coat of black and just a little weathering while this thing is outside for the next hour. Look at that rich black color right there. That's what I'm looking for. After this gets hit with three coats of high gloss it'll have that richness, that dark depth. That's what I want this to have, just a very professional finish on the outside. The small area around the switches I did with a very fine number three paint brush. Just real fine work, take your time, don't get any paint on the place glass. We'll come back and follow up the edges with dirt and finish off the final edges after the wood has been completely polyurethane. The layout will be the last part to get finished in other words, after the wood. The wood right now takes precedence against it for everything, for a little bit of dark stain or something like that on the scenery, that's okay. Look at how beautiful this is, look. This is taking this black real nice. The second coat is just magic. What I'm doing now is I'm putting on the first coat of semi-glossed minwax polyurethane. I'm gonna put on three coats of this. I'm gonna put on the first two coats and then I'm gonna sand real fine with some 2000 grit sandpaper and some water and then I'll put on the third coat which will leave this sides, just a glass finish. Not shiny, but the wood grain will show up real nice. And that's just the effect that I want. I want that dark professional effect.  Okay, so coat one of polyurethane is on and now I'm putting on the second coat. What I'm doing is I'm putting water on the wood now. I've got two coats of polyurethane on it and now it's time to sand this with some 1500 grit sandpaper. Now what this will do is get off any rough spots. So when you put your hand on this, on the third coat it'll be glass smooth. This is just the real important stuff. A little bit of water. Just go over the wood, work real smooth and slow. I put tape around the edges, around the whole edge of the entire layout right now. And I'm putting down dirt. I'm putting down dirt around the edges and they'll ground foam and rock just to finish off the edge, but not mar or cover up the edge of the plywood, the beautiful black wood. And so that ends part three of this layout construction segment on What's Neat and a future episode of What's Neat we will continue on with the last segment of this part four which we will then wrap up and conclude this amazing, amazing man size layout that fits in any spot, any man cave, any part of your basement. Not too big, not too small, just the right size with a lot of neat detail on it. And so with that, that ends this segment of layout construction for What's Neat. For this segment of What's Neat, I've got Larry Harrington from Bachman Industries in beautiful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Larry, welcome to the show. How are you today? I'm doing great. How are you? It's been a while. I've been a couple of months since I've been on your show. So we've been kind of rotating duties at the Bachman Company here. And so everybody gets a chance to speak. We've had Doug and Tyler and Matt on the show and it's my turn again. So getting, we're really busy right now. This time of year is NMRA prep time. So everybody's like Christmas, you know, everybody's happy to see all the new products. We are getting ready to go. This will air after NMRA, but I do have one thing that I'll talk about, but for most of the part, we'll keep it a surprise until next month. Awesome. So first thing, how have you been, by the way? Everything's good here. We're keeping up with show production. We had an absolutely awesome summer this summer and a lot of activities. We had that RPM meet in St. Louis, obviously the NMRA show in Texas. There's just, the hobby is just, it's just like Lionel Strang used to say, we're all going to be covered in hobby goo because it's doing so well, it's just going to explode. Yeah, we've seen some growth over the last couple of years. One of the nice side effects of COVID was people went back to their hobby and went in their basements and expanded their layout and did all kinds of things. And I think we actually grew the hobby during that time, which it's been steady, but this is what I think was a pretty big spike for all the manufacturers out there, so. Absolutely true. Good thing. One of the first things I want to show you is that these are in stock now. Is our 0 and 30 open side, open top excursion card. It's got seats inside. That's what happens with a lot of the narrow gauge they become tourist railroads. And so they convert. We've had our covered excursion car in the past for 0 and 30, but we decided there's also a lot of open top cars out there and no top cars. And this one's Cumbries and Toltec at my fingers, otherwise you can see a little bit better. Very cool. It comes in Cumbries and Toltec, Durango and Silverton, East Broad Top and White Pass and Yukon. And I also have the White Pass and Yukon model here. Very nice. Nice color. Oh, thanks. It's got the painted inside there with the seats. So it's ready to stick your O-Gauge O-Scale figures in there and haul them around your layout. That'll be amazing and a lot of people will do just that. Yeah, exactly. So it's a nice little addition. And we also, like I said, we have those in four road names. So you can use them for a good number of existing scenic railroads out there. So like I said, we've been getting ready for NMRA. So my samples to show are kind of limited because everything's already packed up and on its way to the show. But it did snag a few things before. So this is our first test shot of N-Scale SD-40-2. Very nice. And some of your eagle-eyed people out there might notice that this one doesn't have a dynamic brake and all the road names we announced have dynamic brakes. So we are trying to make our models a little more flexible in N-Scale and all of our scales, make them with both dynamic brake and non-dynamic brake options. They sent us the test sample for the one we're not doing first. So this will be available in four road names with dynamic brakes. They'll be Santa Fe, CSX, the Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific. Nice. So it will have full DCC sound on board. It'll be Tsunami 2, I believe. No, it's economic, excuse me. I'm sorry, it's a soundtrack economic. So that'll be out sometime this year. This is something that hasn't been announced yet, but we'll be about a time this airs. True. We are going to do the very successful with the HO chemical tank car. So we're doing it in N-Scale as well. And this will also feature the two different size domes. I don't know if it shows up there on the camera. I'll get as close as I can. It does. Okay, there's the small dome and then this one is the large dome option. So got a lot of nice detail on the braking on the bottom and very easy to make couplers as well. This will be coming in four road names as well. We're doing two of the road names that we did in HO, diamond chemicals and hooker chemicals. Okay. But we'll also, I don't know if this will show up on the screen. We're also doing Penn's salt and angle guard. I don't see if they got it. Is it too much of a glare there on the screen? There it is, just right. Perfect. Okay, those are the four that we'll be doing. Okay. So you'll see that in the NMRA announcements. So it's one thing I want to remind everybody, we send out a newsletter every week to all of our subscribers on our email list. We also do things on Facebook and Instagram as well. But to get that weekly newsletter, you got to sign up for our email list. So that'll tell you what's coming, what just came in stock, anything new happening at Bachman and good place to get all your first hand information from us. Absolutely true. I've seen your Facebook page. You guys have been putting a lot of videos on there as well and photographs. Yeah, Matt Stern who was on the show earlier, he's our communications manager. He does an awesome job with videos. We just, we have one of our older end scale layouts. So we'll probably be using that for some more videos. And we have another end scale where summertime layout rehab mode right now. So we're working on the second layout as well to give him a variety of scenic backgrounds for his videos and photography as well. Absolutely true. That's great. I've still got an end scale layout down here that I started two and a half years ago. Actually it's been three years now and I need to finish that project as well. End scale, one thing that this summer brought with a lot of the manufacturers that help us support the hobby is there's been a lot of new end scale models out there. Well, we'll have some more to announce at NMRA. I just can't give, we don't have everything prepared for the, right before the, so the brochure hasn't been printed yet. So if I had more information for you at this time I would give it to you, but we'll have that available in Texas. And also be available online. I think the first day of the show, the national train show, not the first day of the convention. We always put it on the, right before the public entrance time at the show. I think that's 12 o'clock on, well it's the 11 o'clock Eastern time. So you'll have that up, just click on our catalogs and brochures, link on our website and you'll be able to view the brochure. Very cool, Larry. It sounds like a lot of neat stuff is coming out and I can't wait to see further what comes out. This is the best hobby in the world and you guys really, really add to it for everybody with all the products that you do make. Well, thanks a lot. It's a lot of fun, been in the hobby for a long time and it's always fun to bring joy to other people. Rock and roll. Is that it for today? That's it for today, yep. And so with that said, thank you very much, Larry, for being on The What's Neat Show and that ends this segment for What's Neat. All of the products seen on this episode of What's Neat are available from Lombard Hobbies in Lombard, Illinois. Or order online at LombardHobby.com. And by Broadway Limited Imports, the cutting edge leader in model trains. Check out their website at Broadway-limited.com. Bachman Trains. Now that's the way to run a railroad. Check out their website at BachmanTrains.com.


Now, this is Jay's least favorite color on me. And I dig it, but he's like, no. Anyways, this is gonna become one of those wacky little videos. I don't know how little. So, if you're interested in a little bit of a wackiness, just stay tuned. I hate to admit this, but I was cruising YouTube, right? And checking on different things and all that. And I saw a video that was recommended and it was the title caught me, right? The title, I'm gonna read it. The title caught my attention and it said, there's always a first time. My first time. And I thought, whew, someone's gonna talk about their first time, right? Dirty mind. And then I looked at the content creator and it was Glitzy Fritzy. So I was like, oh, I gotta figure out, she's actually gonna talk about her first time and I'm thinking, what is Shy Guy gonna say when she kinda bears it all on YouTube? So I watched the video. And it wasn't really clickbait. Well, maybe it was, either that it was just in my mind. But so I watched the video and it was, I don't know if it was a tag type video. She did it and I guess it's an older video on her and she doesn't remember where she first got it from. But I said, I'm gonna do this and see, yeah, maybe I'll never upload this. I don't know, but you never know. So I'm gonna read the questions. I'll link her video too so you can go watch if you're interested. I kinda sometimes like these things because I feel it makes me know the content creator better. Like when I was listening to Glitzy's answers, I was like, okay, I was getting it. I was feeling like I knew her a little bit better. So maybe that'll be the case when you watch my video. And if you're a content creator, feel free to go at it. There's always first time, after all. Anyways, do you still talk to your first love? No, no, the first love. And I'm going to preface it this way. My first true crush when I thought I was in love. And that person really didn't give me much of not even the time of day, really. But do I still talk to him? No, he's no longer alive. If he was alive, I probably would talk to him because I know a lot of people from back in the day still today. And I'm on good terms with my ex-husband, so absolutely. Number two, what was your first job? So my first first job was I was a car hop in A&W root beer. Now, back in those days, car hops had like there were mini skirts. They had an apron, they had a change thing hanging off their hip. Sometimes we wore white go-go boots. Roller skates were on the way out in my era, but typically the white go-go boots and the mini skirt and you went up to a car and you took the order and then you had this tray.   We had all these root beers and all those different sizes. So that was my first job. And at the same time I started working there, I actually started working another job too. And I started working young. I lied about my age. I was actually 14 when I got my first job and I lied about my age. And unfortunately for me, I haven't stopped working since. Anyways, what was your first car? Ah, gosh, the very, very first car I ever got was a rambler. I don't know what the make was, but I remember it was a rambler and I remember the color was sort of like a beige-y thing and I never really liked it, you know? So that would have been my first car. I had a Dodge Demon or Plymouth Demon. I can't remember now, purple Barracuda. Remember those cars? Oh my gosh, I loved it. It was purple. That was my second car, the car that I really liked. Who was the first person you texted today? I had to look on my phone because I didn't text anyone today, but I do use something called Vox. And I think the very first person that responded to me today on Vox that I talked to would have been Sheila, simply Sheila. So, hi, Sheila. Sheila was the first person I talked to today. Who was the first person you thought of this morning? Actually, the first person I thought of this morning was my brother. He's been on my mind an awful lot and he died the end of September and I'm still going through trying to settle his property, settle his affairs basically and he was actually the first person I thought of this morning. Who was your first grade teacher? I cannot remember. I couldn't speak English in first grade and I can tell you it was like Horace Mann School, elementary school in Everett Mass or something like that, but I couldn't really speak English and I don't remember my teacher's name. Where did you go on your first airplane ride? My first airplane ride would have been gone from Boston Logan to London. We had a layover in London and then we went to Germany and I was about 12 years old. That would have been my very, very first airplane ride, Boston Logan Airport to London Heathrow and then after that layover, we went on to Germany. Who was your first best friend and do you still talk to him or her? I don't. I think of her often. I wonder where she is. Couple of times I tried to put her name in Facebook just to see nothing turned up. I Googled her name, nothing turned up. So I'm not sure. I'm not sure if she's still alive, if she's still around. I wish I could find her. Where was your first sleepover? I think my first sleepover that I can recall would have been at my cousin's house in North Salem, New Hampshire when I was a little girl. Who was the first person you talked to today? Well, since Vox wouldn't count as a talk, I would say it would be my husband Jay. He was the first person I talked to today and is the first person I talked to every single day and the poor guy. Who's wedding were you in for the first time? Oh, my girlfriend Debbie. She got married.  She got married young and I was one of her bridesmaids. I still have the photo. If I can find it, I'll insert it, but I still have the photo. It's pretty cool. What was the first thing you did this morning? I went to the bathroom and then I had a cup of coffee and then I edited a video. I added some description box into one of the videos. What was the first concert you ever went to? I don't know. I've been to a number of concerts. I don't remember the very first one, but I don't remember the very first one. I don't know. The first broken bone. My first broken bone was definitely a big doozy. I had been hiking up a mountain in Northern New Hampshire and it was a mountain I'd gone up plenty of other times and I was with some friends and it wasn't a super steep mountain, but that year the trail had been undermined. There was a lot of rains. There was a lot of loose gravel and on the way down, I fell and I fell very, very severely down off the trail and hit a tree wedged and broke both my fib and my fib, fibula and fibula, and I went into shock almost immediately. So I had one of those other than the helicopter, which didn't happen, but I had one of those rescues you read about because there was no cell reception and by the time I was found, there was another hiker who had, he hiked up and he got some cell reception and was able to call for help because I couldn't move and I was pretty well out of it and my girlfriends were all trying to help me. Really nasty, but that was a pretty bad break, that emergency rescue, getting strapped to a backboard, being lifted down the mountain, having emergency surgery. It was, it was horrific, it was horrific. Your first piercing, well, I'm not a piercing lady. I do have two ears, two ears. I have two holes in each ear. So my first piercings was my pierced earrings and I think I was probably about 12. I did them myself. We had those little things that you pushed in, you bought the kit and then my second one, I was much older. I think my second one might even be closed. I don't know. I do love earrings. The earrings I have on right now were made for me from my life Wendy. She does jewelry. I'll link her channel below. And she, I bought some jewelry off of her. She custom makes a lot of these earrings and I'm an earring person. I really love earrings. So my left Wendy. First foreign country, the first foreign country for me would have been America, right? Because I was born in Germany and so Germany was my home country. So my first foreign country would have been America. My second foreign country would have been London. And so yeah, that's what I would say America and then London. First movie you remember seeing in the theaters? I think it was just for some strange reason. It was Gone with the Wind. And then I remember the very first thing that I saw in the theater with the group of students from school was Romeo and Juliet. I love that movie. It was so sad. When was your first detention? First of many. Got a lot of detention. I was probably in sixth grade. I was, yeah, I was a freshie. Who was your first roommate? I never really had a roommate. I just had a husband. Who, what was the first lesson you ever took? What was the first lesson I ever took? I don't know. When you say the word lesson, I don't know. I mean, I went and I became an EMT, so I had to train that. That was the school. That was the certificate. It was really important. I was a female firefighter, actually volunteer firefighter in that town. So there was a lot of lessons that I had to take, classes that I had to take. Other lessons is that driver's training. That's probably about it. Who is the first and beauty related person you watched on YouTube? You know, I've been on YouTube since 2009, but early on in my, you know, being on YouTube, I just considered YouTube as a place to deposit my videos. I would do localism type videos. I would talk about real estate and I would just put them on there and then I'd put them on a website. So it was a long time before I really traveled on YouTube out of that little niche that I was in instead of watching beauty videos. But I think the very first one that I ever stumbled upon and it stays in my mind because she's a fellow New Englander and I thought it was so cool. And I think the reason I found her is my sister and I were talking about hot flashes. And, you know, we were getting in age, you know, we were thinking about that. And so Angie, hot and flashy, showed up when we, and I knew that she was from Connecticut from watching her video. So she would have been the very first one. However, I never connected with her. I left a couple of comments early on but I don't know that she ever really saw them, read them, cared about them. I never felt connected. I thought she had really good content. I watched a couple of her videos but I never felt connected. The second, third, and fourth people that I probably started watching, I got a huge, huge benefit from and felt totally connected and that would have been, and I don't know who came first, but it would have been Mary Ellen after 60, Natalie the beauty diva, and Melissa 55. Those were the three women who were older in that sense. And when I started to comment on their videos that I felt like they saw me. I felt like they saw me. And you know, maybe they didn't back then but I felt like they saw me where I know Angie never did see me. So those were the most impactful ladies on YouTube for me. And what was your first time like? That's not one of the questions but that's actually what I thought the topic was gonna be when I clicked on the link to watch Glitzy Fritzy's video. Clickbait, Mary. So I don't know how many of you clicked on because you thought I was gonna talk something like that but yeah, I probably should talk about that someday. It's interesting, but no. Anyway, so we'll see if I publish this just sort of like a funny little thing to do to get to know me better and talk about my first time of all these things. We all have first time. So if you're a content creator, think about doing this and if not, leave me a message in the comments and tell me what some of your first times were. Oh, do you like this color? Poor Jay does not like this color. I mean, I kind of feel like a different person when I'm a blonde like this. Thanks for watching.


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Yes, actual scientific tests prove conclusively that in seven out of ten cases, Colgate Dental Cream instantly stops unpleasing breath that originates in the mouth. Colgate Dental Cream is famous for its wonderful wake-up flavor, too. Nationwide tests of leading toothpaste prove that Colgate Dental Cream is preferred for flavor over other brands tested. So try Colgate Dental Cream to bring out the natural sparkle and beauty of your teeth. For a wake-up flavor you'll thoroughly enjoy. And use Colgate Dental Cream twice a day and before every date to clean your breath while you clean your teeth. Well, just about the last person in the whole world you'd suspect of being up to something devilish is the husband of our young hero's landlady. Loyal, dutiful, steady, fearful Mr. Anderson. But his daughter, Mildred, has been far from satisfied with her father's behavior during the past week, and so this morning she's decided to broach the subject to her boyfriend, Dennis Day, in his room. Dennis, what are you doing? Oh, listening to the radio. To the radio? Oh, I don't hear anything. Oh, Fred Allen's on. Off I want to talk to you. Okay. You noticed anything odd or unusual about Dad lately? You're Dad? No, Mildred, why? Well, he's been acting strangely all week. Gee, really? He hasn't been near Mother for whole days at a time. And besides that, he's been acting strangely, huh? Never see him anymore. While at dinner he barely gets through the first course before he disappears somewhere. I don't understand it. Me either. He certainly should be used to the food by now. Isn't the food my father's up to something? Oh gosh, you really think so? I do. Dennis, you don't su- Oh no. No, it's impossible. Well, that's silly. Nothing is impossible. What were you thinking of? Another woman. Big pardon, I was wrong. Of course, it's utterly fantastic. Ridiculous. Still? Yeah, spring, and you know what they say about young men and their fancy. But Dad's not a young man, Dennis. Well, sometimes even his type runs across something fancy. Might be an affair, D'Amour. Well, I don't know whether she's French or not. But you do think he might be interested in another woman? Oh, Dennis, I can't believe it. Me either, really. But Dennis, we've simply got to know the truth. Yeah. If it's what we suspect, we might be able to break it up before Mother hears about it. Think what'll happen to her if she finds out about my father. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes either. Now, look, Daddy's in the next room. You're going in there and find out what he's up to. You mean right now? Yes, only for heaven's sakes, be tactful. If you're not subtle about it, he won't tell you a thing. Okay, I'll kind of ease into it slowly. I can be pretty sly, you know. Good. I'll wait here for you. Go on. Morning, Mr. Anderson. Morning, my boy. What do you think of the Russian situation, Mr. Anderson? The Russian situation? Why, it's pretty complicated. Yeah, and do you know that half the population of Russia is women? Naturally. How's your love life lately? My what? Mr. Anderson, I'm going to put my cards right on the table. I suspect you of going out with another woman. Dennis, have you ever seen me with another woman? No, sir. Have you ever heard me mention another woman's name or seen me even look at another woman at any time? No, sir. Well, then? Where are you hiding her? I'm afraid we're discussing a pleasant impossibility. Now, believe me, it isn't so. No?  To the public library. Aha! Now we're getting somewhere. A beautiful librarian, huh? Dennis, in the Weaverville library, the only thing you'll find well stacked are the books. Well, what do you do at the library then? Well, now, if you'll promise me to keep it a secret, I'll tell you. Oh, sure. I promise. Now, I've been looking up some old newspaper files. You see, I've been writing a story. A story? That's right. I've already sent it to True Story Magazine, and they want to publish it. Gee, what's it called? The Romance of Herbert Anderson. Fiction, huh? You have just put your finger on the horrible problem that I now find myself faced with. You see, True Story Magazine positively insists that every word they print is the absolute truth. Oh, and you didn't make your romance true. No, I made it interesting. Now, the magazine is sending a man here to authenticate my story before they publish it. Well, can he find anything false? I mean, just what did you say? Well, I describe myself as a man of 50 with a desirable wife. You're dead. I could get by with that, but you see, as an added touch, I mentioned our children. Oh, one daughter could hardly be considered children, huh? Exactly. Well, maybe you could say it was a little mistake that you lost count. Hardly, because I describe the other child in considerable detail. A boy, I said it was, a brilliant boy who, less than a year ago, had received his doctorate from Harvard. Gee, you are in a mess. When will this fellow from True Story be here? This afternoon, according to the wire I got. This afternoon? Gosh, even if Mrs. Anderson presented you with a son right now, he could never get through Harvard in time. Well, not a hard school like Harvard, no. Well, let's not give up yet, Mr. Anderson. There's got to be a way out of this thing somehow. Oh, I hope so. Now, don't you worry. I've got a brain, and Mildred's got a brain, and between our two brains, she's sure to think of something. Oh, so that's all it is. Oh, I think your father's in pretty big trouble, Mildred. Yes, but there's a way to get him out. That is, if you're willing. I knew you'd think of an idea. What's this one? A state or a federal offense? Well, it's very simple. Daddy has to produce a son for the man from True Story Magazine. All right, you're the son. Me? Mildred, this thing's got to be realistic. But it is realistic. You're the right age, aren't you? Yes. Then you're the son he wrote about. A brilliant young man with a college degree. It is here that I feel we are veering toward fantasy. Nonsense. Now, look, you told me the boy was a doctor. Yeah. All right, you go down to Dr. Hopkins' office. I'll send the man from True Story there, and when he arrives, he finds you wearing Dr. Hopkins' coat and sitting at his desk. He also finds Dr. Hopkins beating my brains out, doesn't he? Oh, no, because Dr. Hopkins won't be there. Somebody's made him go out on an emergency. Who? You. Oi.  Pretend you're in a panic. Oh, that I can handle easily. Good. And when the man from True Story gets there, you're the doctor, see? But, Mildred, really, I... Oh, you can do it? Forget right now about being a soda clerk and start thinking about your new career. I am. Goodbye, Willoughby's drug store. Hello, Alcatraz. Come in. Dr. Hopkins, Dr. Hopkins. Yes, boy, what is it? An emergency, Dr. My sister. Your sister? Yeah, she's doubled up in agony. Her face has turned green. Her teeth are falling out, and she's got a temperature of 109. What? Yeah, we think she's sick. Good gracious. Has she been in this condition long? Since January. January? Why'd you come to me now? Well, today she started to complain. Could you go right away, doctor? Yes, yes, of course. What's the address? 120 Cedar Road. It's out in the middle of the woods, 10 miles from here. Good heavens. How could you have picked such an out-of-the-way splat? It wasn't easy. I'd better call the hospital and have them drive me over in the ambulance. An ambulance? Of course, yes, yes, yes. The driver will find the place. Doc, it's beautiful out. Why don't you walk?  I'll go over to the hospital and pick up the ambulance there. And you stay here and watch the office for me till I get back, understand? Yes, sir. Gee, it worked like a charm. This must be one of my abnormal days. Oh, gosh, what do I do now? Maybe it's Mildred. Hello? Yes, this is Dr. Hopkins' office, but... What? Your wife is about to have a baby, and what should you do? Well, humor, I guess. Let her have it. It's a thing to say. You ought to have your phone ripped out. Get rid of the doctor? Yeah. The man from True Stories on his way down the hall. Quick, put on that white coat and put this stethoscope around your neck. Hurry now. Okay. Oh, there he is. I'll slip behind a screen where I can't see. Come in. How do? I'm Mr. Weems of True Story Magazine. They told me I could find Mr. Anderson's son here. Yes, I'm Mr. Anderson's son. Dennis Day is the name. Dennis Day? Your father's name is Herbert Anderson, and yours is Dennis Day? Yeah, he didn't want people to call me Junior. That explains your first name, but what about your last? Well, Daddy's a fellow. It takes no chances at all. Mm-hmm. Anyway, I want to welcome you to my office and assure you that... Your office? Sure. On the front door, it says Dr. Hopkins. How come? Let's let that one ride, shall we? I may think of something later. Better come up with it now. I have a feeling I may not be here long. Well, um, uh... I just bought Dr. Hopkins practice, and I haven't had time to take his name off the door yet. Hey, pretty good, huh? But why did you buy a medical practice? Oh, you know me, the man in white. It says right in Dad's story that I got my doctorate a year ago. Yes, but your doctorate wasn't at MD. It was a law degree from Harvard Law School. A law degree? You mean I'm a... I'm a... Try to guess. A lawyer? Good boy! Yeah, yeah, of course I'm a lawyer. I was just having a little joke, that's all. Pretty funny, don't you think? Ha! You bet! Yes, sir!  Oh, that's easy. When I chase ambulances, I like to dress for it. I see. And all this equipment? What would a lawyer want with an X-ray machine? Oh, you'd be surprised how it turns up the hidden clauses in contracts. And I suppose you use that examination table when you examine witnesses. Yeah, it helps me weed out the habeas corpus' from the corpus' delictis. This kind of fun, isn't it? You don't expect me to swallow this, do you, Mr. Day? I'd be terribly grateful. Well, you do have some awfully novel ideas for a lawyer. Yeah, they come when I least expect them. You and Clarence Darrow, eh? No, I like to work alone. Who has a better right? Well, Mr. Day, true story magazine, as you know, prints nothing but the truth. So, until I can check on this matter elsewhere, I suggest you plead no lo contendres, so to speak. Oh, I will. I'll plead just what you said. You're not familiar with that common legal phrase? I'm a Harvard man, Mr. Weems. We'd hardly learn common phrases there. Yes, naturally. But you do understand Latin, of course. Oh, of course. I'm simply odored lay with aton lay. Or indeed loaded with something or other. Well, goodbye, Mr. Day. Let's not do it again real soon, shall we? Is he gone? Yeah. You know something, Mildred? I have a feeling he didn't believe a word I said. I'm afraid you're right. But there's nothing we can do now but hope for the best. Don't lose confidence. Oh, I won't. But just in case, when you get home tonight, would you bake me a cake with a file in it? Oh, Dennis, you must! Uh-oh, he's back again. Quick. Behind the screen. Okay. Come in. Now look, Mr. Weems, I... Stand still, Doc. This ain't a water pistol I got in my hand. I need a doctor. But... You're coming with me, Doc. The boss needs you fast and he needs you bad. The car just went past him and now he's got two bullets in his stomach. Gosh, I realize that drivers are always thinking up new things to do to pedestrians. I'd get your things on, Doc. I ain't fooling. No, no, no. Wait. You're making a mistake. I'm not a doctor. No? Then what are you doing in this office with a white coat on and a stethoscope around your neck? Oh, I was trying to convince someone that I was a lawyer. Sounds weak, huh? Doc, I'm warning you for the last time. The boss needs someone to pick those bullets out of him. And... And if I refuse? You go anyway. Then you and the boss can pick the bullets out of each other. I don't see what you mean. You're an excellent salesman. Thank you. Now are you coming? Yes, sir. Only... Only... What if I weren't a doctor?  We've wasted enough time. Our hideout is the old foster place on Pine Hill.  Now come on, let's go. Yes, sir. Oh, Den is my poor darling. I've got to do something. But what? What?  He'll be dead. And that fellow he takes the bullets out of, he won't do well either. I've just got to do something. The foster place on Pine Hill. Here he is, chief. Oh, good work, Sam. Oh, Doc, you're just in time. These bullets went awful deep in my stomach. They did? Yeah, my head is split. Boy, that is deep. You better get right to work, Doc. I can't stand this pain much longer. Look, mister, at the risk of my life, there's something I've got to tell you.  I'll take his pulse. Huh? You heard me take his pulse. Really? I don't think we should remove it in his condition. What are you talking about? All you got to do is feel it. Oh. Well, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and feel his pulse. Yes, sir. If you'll find it, I'll be glad to feel it. What? Oh, never mind the pulse, Doc. A blood count is more important anyway. A blood count? Yeah, go ahead. Take one. Oh, I don't have to. I can tell without counting them that you have fewer than you used to. You know something, boss? I think you're in trouble. You're telling me what the heat's on, Sam? We've got to get out of here. Oh, go after those bullets, Doc. I'll tell you what. Let's leave them in. A lot of iron and bullets, you know, and the system requires iron to be... Fine time. A fine time to be making jokes. Go on, examine his stomachs and see if you can locate them slugs. Okay. Steady now, Chief. Ow! Take this.  He can't stand that. Come on. Give him an anesthetic. An anesthetic? Yeah, sure. You've got something to put him to sleep, ain't you? Well, I could read to him if you want me to.   Let me see. Yeah, sure. Sure. Here it is. Gee, I'm glad I remembered. Okay. Now I'll pour some of my handkerchief and give it to him. There. There. That ought to do it. All right now, Doc. You call for your instruments, and I'll hand them to you. But I... Call for your instruments. Okay. Knife. Knife. Smelling salts. Spell... We're going to give them smelling salts? They're for me. Well, see that you don't need them. Understand? Now, what else do you need? Forceps. Forceps. Band-aid. Band-aid? You're looking neat afterwards, don't we?  Will you start operating? Really, Mr. Look? Did you hear me? Yes, sir, but I can't operate on this man. He's not a... Start operating. Yes, sir. Hey, what's that? Open up, here! Open up in there! Okay, you.  The cops! Gee, just like David Harding, counter-spy. And Mr. Weems. Sure, I'm all right. Well, what do you know? Sam McNulty and Scarface Fudnic. We've been wanting these boys a long time. Congratulations, Doc. Well, well, so you've given up law and taken to medicine again, eh, Mr. Dan? Gee, Mr. Weems, I bet you think I'm flighty, don't you? He knows you aren't a lawyer, Dennis, or even Daddy's son. Yes, and of course we can't use Mr. Anderson's story. But it's quite possible that we can print the story of how you captured these gangsters single-handed. Gosh, really? Yes. Only remember, Mr. Day, this is True Story Magazine. We want the plain truth and only the truth. Oh, sure. Well, it was like this. I was all alone in the doctor's office when all of a sudden, an arm with Tommy Guns and Cutlass is jumping. I fought like a demon and I was winning easily when all of a sudden one of them whips out an atom bomb. Well, naturally, I couldn't do much against that, so I waited my chance and then I went after the whole army of them. I hit one guy with a left and another with a right and a third with a right. No, the story of how Dennis Day routed the gangsters will not be found in True Story Magazine. But the story of Dennis's life entitled, OK, I'll Talk, definitely is in the current issue. True Story Magazine on sale at all newsstands. Dennis Day will be back in just a moment with a song. But first, here's a fact worth knowing. Colgate Nettle Cream cleaned your breath while it cleaned your teeth. And that's important as our Colgate players are going to demonstrate for you. Our curtain goes up on a rain-soaked college boy who doesn't seem to know it's raining. Raining cats and dogs, in fact. A friend comes up and says, Come on, snap out of it, Tom.  Well, what difference does it make, pal? I'm all wet anyway, according to Sal. She just read me a thunder and lightning act. It was a beauty. Oh. So your sugar left you standing in the rain, did she? That's about it. But when it comes to telling me why, well, Sal's the original Miss Clam. Well, rain in the face. I'll tell you something. What you want to do is make a dash for your Dennis, Tom. And here's what Tom found out. Scientific tests have proved that in seven out of ten cases, Colgate Nettle Cream instantly stops unpleasing breath that originates in the mouth. What's more, Colgate Nettle Cream's safe polishing agent brings out the natural sparkle of your teeth, cleans them thoroughly and safely. Yes, Colgate Nettle Cream cleans your breath while it cleans your teeth. And Colgate Nettle Cream is famous for its wonderful wake-up flavor, too. In fact, nationwide tests, leading toothpaste, prove that Colgate Nettle Cream is preferred for flavor over other brands tested. So to clean your teeth thoroughly and safely for a wake-up flavor everyone enjoys, use Colgate Nettle Cream. Remember, Colgate Nettle Cream cleans your breath while it cleans your teeth. With Charles Dant in the orchestra, here's Dennis to sing the current favorite I want to thank your folks. Taking you as sweet as you Can I express how I feel And best and reveal What a swell job they've done Well, suppose I've invited... Dennis Day can be heard with Jack Benny every Sunday. And be sure and be with us again next week for another Dennis Day program. More songs, more adventures in the life of our star, Dennis Day. Meanwhile, be sure to use Colgate Nettle Cream to clean your breath while you clean your teeth. Lovely Joan Bennett is another famous Hollywood star to rave over Cashmere Bouquet, Beau Cake. The new cake makeup sensation. Joan Bennett says, I'm wild over Cashmere Bouquet, Beau Cake. So clever, so practical, with a makeup sponge in its own moisture-proof compartment right in the compact. Yes, Cashmere Bouquet, Beau Cake. For the first time, brings you the makeup sponge right inside the case. 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Well, hello everybody and welcome to another Tech and Talk, Diane Mueller and the Director of Community Development for Red Hat OpenShift. And as such, you can just imagine how excited I was last week at Grace Hopper, not just because there were 18,000 women in tech hanging out, but because we hosted an open source day hackathon and in walked Gokila Dorai from Florida State University with a question about how do we make TensorFlow work on OpenShift? And as it happens sometimes at conferences and hackathons, wonderful things happen. And in about four and a half hours of hacking on it, we got TensorFlow up and running on OpenShift and Eleanor and Ryan from the Red Hat Consulting Team were key peak folks who helped make that happen. And so we figured we'd share how we did that and what TensorFlow is this week right away as there's lots of interest in machine learning and AI and running those payloads on OpenShift and kick off the conversation about that. And that will, first we're going to start off, Gokila is going to give a little background on what TensorFlow is for those of you who don't know yet. And then we're actually going to do a demo and see running some linear regression perhaps on OpenShift with TensorFlow. So the tech and talks are always about new innovations, new technologies. This is sort of bleeding edge. So I'm going to let Gokila kick it off and we'll have live Q&A at the end. You can ask questions in the chat. And if we can, we'll answer them. So go for it, Gokila. Thank you, Diane. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone. If you want to learn how to use deep learning in your applications and deploy them on a platform, then welcome to this podcast. So I'm Gokila Durai. I'm a PhD student from a Florida State University and I specialize in mobile forensics and I use machine learning for my applications. It was a great pleasure working with Eleanor and Ryan at the Grace Harper's conference during the open source day at that codathon event. So let's get started. So what's Google's TensorFlow? It's one of the most popular tools for deep learning. With TensorFlow, you can build your own machine learning systems and use them to power your own applications. And today we will learn how to use TensorFlow to build and deploy machine learning models. So what is TensorFlow? It is one of the most popular deep learning frameworks that's available. It's used for everything from cutting edge machine learning research to building new features for the hottest startups in Silicon Valley. If you're new to machine learning, then you may be wondering what TensorFlow actually is. TensorFlow is a software framework for building and deploying machine learning models. So machine learning is a different approach than traditional programming. With traditional programming, we write the program that tells the computer exactly what to do. So the task to be done. So what's machine learning? With machine learning, we don't explicitly tell the computer how to do something. Instead, we show a training data and the machine learning algorithm uses the training data that comes up with its own rules to complete the task. So deep neural networks built with TensorFlow are used in many different areas. For example, image recognition, speech recognition, image style transfer, and language translation. So where you recognize objects appear in a picture called image recognition. Where speech turns into text is speech recognition. And image style transfer is where you can make a photograph look like how it was painted by a most popular artist. And language translation is where you translate from one human language to another. So these are typical machine learning applications. So why do we prefer TensorFlow? And developed at Google, TensorFlow was designed to be a common platform for building machine learning applications internally. In late 2015, Google decided to share it with the world and release it as an open source application. So TensorFlow is licensed under Apache open source software license. That means you can use it, modify it, and even redistribute the modified version to others. You don't have to pay anything for licensing fee to use TensorFlow. And it gives you the basic building blocks that you need to design, train, and deploy machine learning models. While it's flexible enough to be used for several different types of machine learning types of algorithms, it's typically used for building deep neural networks. So let's see a few things about how data is incorporated in TensorFlow. So the name TensorFlow comes from the design of the system. So TensorFlow is designed to work with very large datasets made up of many different individual attributes. Any data that you want to process with TensorFlow has to be stored in a multidimensional array. These multidimensional arrays are also called tensors, and there comes the name TensorFlow. To run operations on the dataset, you construct a computational graph, which is similar to a flow chart that determines how data flows from one operation to the next. So for example, the input math matrices are given here, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 4, 2, 1, 3, 3, and 2, 4. So you can add and then you can square the output, and hence you get the output. So these are examples of computations that's being conducted in TensorFlow. So imagine this is being conducted on a very, very large datasets, huge matrices. And here comes OpenCheck. So first we will cover how to get TensorFlow installed and running on our system. Then we will explore how to create and train a machine learning model in TensorFlow. We will be using OpenShift, which is an open source container application platform, which is built by Red Hat. Next we will use TensorFlow's visualization tools to analyze and improve our machine learning model. That is once we have the output from a matrix calculation or computation, we are going to represent it physically as a graph. Finally, we will deploy the model to the cloud where we will call it from any program. So let's get started. Elenor. Sure. Hi, thank you. So Ryan is going to go over a little bit of like the overview of really OpenShift and kind of how it works on a high level. And then I can show you what it looks like to get a basic TensorFlow container image up on OpenShift. Many of our consulting teams have been leveraging OpenShift to deliver solutions for our customers across a wide range of industries. And it's always interesting to be able to go on site and work with our partners and see how they're leveraging OpenShift. It was nice to be a grace hopper and see a brand new use case, which was TensorFlow. Getting TensorFlow running on OpenShift was really great for Red Hat consulting. It's definitely something that we as an organization have been interested in doing. So really our choice for our container platform is OpenShift. We were using OpenShift Origin, the web string version of the Red Hat OpenShift container platform. And really OpenShift allows development teams to quickly deploy code in a very scalable environment. And it's also backed by Kubernetes as well for orchestration. So it's a great fit for IT operations as well. So I think having TensorFlow as part of the OpenShift ecosystem is great. And I'm excited to see how this gets deployed. Cool. So let me share my screen, and I can show you a little bit of how we got started. Okay. So originally what we were doing was searching to see, here it is. If TensorFlow has already been containerized, so if there's an existing TensorFlow image that's up on Docker Hub, and there actually is, and they've set it up to use Jupyter Notebook that's really a couple of sort of Hello World or Quick Start applications that include all of the dependencies that you need to create these graphs. So you have TensorFlow and all the installs for that, as well as Matplotlib, NumPy and the various other like Python data visualization tools. So up on Docker Hub, you can see that the image is already there. And if you're curious about putting anything else on OpenShift, this is a great place to start. So they do have an existing image. We played around a little bit with it and explored the GitHub repo to see what kind of stuff they have available. We're just going to deploy the introductory sort of Dockerfile, the general one that they have, but they also have tools for, if you're trying to use like GPU support or things like that, they've created a couple other Dockerfiles as well. So if we were to scale this up in OpenShift to something much bigger like one container, which is what we'll be deploying right now, you can use a variety of these images here. So what I've done is just, I've basically spun up a local instance of OpenShift for me because that was the easiest way to do it. You can also run OpenShift on your own, if you can have your own server or your own virtual machines. You can also run it on Google Cloud Platform or AWS or Azure or other systems like that. And I can send out those links afterwards if you guys are curious. So I have this, basically this local instance of OpenShift origin. I already actually have created the TensorFlow objects in here, but I'm going to go ahead and delete them. This is just to make sure that everything is working. So let me, I have this new project. So now on OpenShift, I have a project, which is basically where I can contain all of my various objects for deploying this. So I'm going to have an image stream, which basically contains all of the image data for your actual container. So this is just going to be the TensorFlow image. And then I'm going to have a deployment config, which defines how to actually deploy it as a container in OpenShift, as well as a route, which lets the container be externally exposed. So we can actually hit it and see the Jupyter notebook page as it comes up. So what's nice about having it already up on Docker Hub is that I don't even have to create my own repo and like define the whole TensorFlow image and everything myself in a Docker file. I can actually just create it automatically like this, but this OC new app, TensorFlow and TensorFlow latest line, this pulls the image directly from Docker Hub. But if you were to, if you wanted to create your own, what you would do is you would have your own repo that has a Docker file that calls from TensorFlow colon latest, and that would basically be how you would build off this existing image. So the reason this is crashing is because I have to actually give it the ability to run as root because that's currently the way that set up the container. So I'm just going to create this route. What I'm doing here is creating a service account that lets the container actually run its route. So what I'm going to do is basically edit the deployment config for this TensorFlow image and I'm going to give it the ability to run as root. So now if we go into our deployments and look at the TensorFlow one, as it redeploys since I made this change, we'll actually see that it comes up and running. And it shows copy pastes URL to your browser. What we want to do is actually expose this route so that we can hit it since we can't actually do it at local host since it's on OpenShift. So what I'm going to do is expose this service, which will create a route at this port. But in the log for the file, you can see that it's at 8888 instead of 6006. So I'm going to edit this so that it hits the right port. So now if we go to our overview, we can see all of the objects that are contained within this whole TensorFlow application. And if I hit this URL, it sends me to basically what they've set up the Jupyter Notebook that includes all of the TensorFlow dependencies. So in the pod itself, it gave me this token so that I could log in. I'm just going to copy that and then log in. And what they give you by default with this image is super helpful. It's basically just a series of steps of how to get started with TensorFlow and how it really works, which is great for someone like me as a total beginner with it. And they let you in Jupyter Notebook basically have live code so you can add anything you like and include all of the Python dependencies and TensorFlow here is already imported. I'm going to look at this guy, which has some pre-existing graphs in it as well. So here, basically, if I make any changes here, maybe if I change this to like 100 and then run it and see what happens as it gets recreated the graph with additional points. And this is great because you can actually just make all of these changes yourself and see the graphs change as it happens. And the container already includes all of the resources that you need. Let's see. I think they have some additional ones here. And there are tons of resources on GitHub that use this image that include other ways to show graphs or other additional algorithms that people have worked with. I know, Kokila, you've worked with a variety of algorithms to create that linear regression plot that you were talking about. And all of these can be created within this container here. And the benefit of OpenShift in this space is that you could scale it up to really any size. So instead of just having one container, which would be similar to just running TensorFlow on your own local machine, you could scale it up to a much larger size and handle a lot more data or put it on the cloud somewhere where you have OpenShift installed. So I have a quick question for you guys. Two things. And then people who are listening and have questions, please type them into the chat and we'll try and answer them as well. You mentioned that you needed root access to do this. Is that going to be ongoing? You'll always need root access in order to do this? Or is that something that we could tweak a specific OpenShift TensorFlow image so that you didn't need root access? Because I know that's always a question mark in every ops person's mind. That's a great question. Yeah, you actually can. Any Docker file that we create off of that base image, we can set it to have a specific user ID so that instead of root, which is just the default from the Docker Hub image, it can just pull from, I don't know, it can be user 1001 or one of the normal ones that people use. Because yeah, you're right. It's not great to run a container with privilege. It was a hackathon. We had to do what we had to do. Exactly. And the other question was about scaling up. The image that you're using, you mentioned at the beginning, wasn't a scalable one, I think. I wasn't quite sure whether I interpreted that correctly. The one from Docker. Is there anything we have to do specifically to add more resources or additional nodes for of this Jupyter notebook? Because I'm wondering the Jupyter dependency, which I love Jupyter and we'll have the Jupyter folks on and do more and you're going to make Graham Dumpleton incredibly happy by showcasing it. One of our colleagues at Red Hat who loves the Jupyter notebook project. But I'm wondering about that. Is there something, a next step that we need to do for these images to make them really, truly scalable and sort of a more production or research way? I think probably, I don't remember exactly what I said, but it was probably with regards to me having my own local instance of OpenShift and so it's basically limited by the resources on my laptop right now. So depending on what cluster you have set up or what system you're using, if you're running this on something like Google Cloud Platform you could have, you could scale it up to really any size based on, you know, your needs. And your credit card. Yeah. Your credit card dependencies. But it's also we should be able to run this same image then on OpenShift Online or OpenShift Dedicated to and create a nice big chat cluster of Jupyter notebooks and TensorFlow running. So that, I think that might be the next thing to test out and try and get Gokila to do some real cool stuff because the work, you were sitting there at the Hackathon and Grace Hopper and just noodling away and saying, oh, I'm just a PhD just a PhD candidate at FSU. And then when I looked at LinkedIn after we got back, you're doing this really cool stuff around mobile forensics. Oh, thank you so much. A little bit about how are you going to use or what kind of use of TensorFlow you're going to use in that field. Mm-hmm. So we are performing live data analysis for forensics and this is like a novel approach and first of the kind because there are plenty of commercial tools that's available for law enforcement and every time a new license is being released or a new version of the commercial tool is released, law enforcement tends to pay several thousand dollars to get their license up in renewal and the pace at which mobile phones are getting updated. The operating system gets updated once every year. So law enforcement has to catch up with their investigative methods and methodologies and tools up to the operating system. And we were trying to work around the solutions and try to see what's the fastest way to extract evidence off of mobile devices and looking at the fastest ways of course, if we have humans look at the evidence and tell what's contained in the evidence, then probably that's going to be a time-consuming work and that is where artificial intelligence comes into picture and that's where we are exactly using our machine learning models. So we will have our first publication out by the end of the year and we'll be more than happy to share it with all of you. Yes, let's keep looking forward to the publication that comes out. That would be great and we'd definitely have to keep in touch and connected on this and maybe even get an account on OpenShift Online and try it deploying some of the stuff there. That would be wonderful and I don't have to worry about scalability. Yes, we'll see what we can do to make that happen. And Ryan's asked a couple of questions of the folks who are in the chat and online and there are a really good number of people who are listening into this live at the moment. And I'm curious of the other folks who are out there and would love to get your feedback on how you're planning on using TensorFlow on OpenShift or what your interests are in TensorFlow. We're going to try and kick off an OpenShift Commons SIG on machine learning which we will have Paquilla and Eleanor and Ryan and a few dozen other people I'm sure. So look for that or email me and I'll sign you up for this. The special interest group is what SIG stands for. But if there's anybody who's in the participants list now would be a great time to tell us what you're doing. And Subin has just mentioned, yes, there is a CentOS 7 image for that. So that would be another and the whole analytics group is doing a lot of stuff within Red Hat as well. So Subin, can I unmute you and you can tell us a little bit about that? Let me see if I can unmute. Can you hear me? Yes, yes I can. Hi, I'm Subin from the... Oops, we lost him. Sorry, I muted myself. So hi, my name is Subin I've been working on TensorFlow from past few weeks and this is really exciting to see this particular demo. So we looked at the 7 image and we found that that was Ubuntu based and minor issues which even you are facing. So we put some effort and tried to create a CentOS 7 image for that. So I just pasted a link on that. And of course you can definitely see some of our works what we are working on in Red Hat Analytics HIO. One example which we have up for TensorFlow is this particular example for MNIST which we have developed with S2i which is another feature from OpenShift. Definitely I mean if you could look at it give us your feedbacks and whatever learnings you have done that would be great for us because we are just a couple of weeks old in this. Well if you want to come on another upcoming OpenShift Commons briefing and demo it and show it off. I would love to have you guys on from the Rata Analytics Group they always do great demos and wonderful things so that would be a great way to do it and I understand using CentOS is probably a much more closer to what we are using with RHEL and things like that so it is probably a better landing place for our customers at Red Hat always open to all of them. Is there anyone else out there in the participants list there who has any experience with TensorFlow because it is pretty new to everybody I think and we definitely got a lot of folks at Google very interested in working with OpenShift so I will be having them on sometime in two soon, pretty soon and oh and Douglas is saying that there is an OpenShift blog on how to use GPUs in OpenShift 3.6, yep that is still alpha yes we definitely know that is still alpha but we are definitely looking for getting that up in one. So I think there is a lot of interest in TensorFlow machine learning and that throughout all of Red Hat and in the OpenShift Commons Groups and in Kubernetes world so we will definitely start maybe a monthly cadence of talks around machine learning and we will keep up with go killer and the work she is doing in mobile forensics because that is CSI and totally cool and we would love that the CSI TV shows was actually reality and maybe using OpenSource to make that happen is the way to do it because most of the local law enforcement groups that I work with across Canada and North America they don't have the funding for those kind of labs that we see in TV though everybody expects that DNA to happen so it will be really interesting to keep up with you and so I really am so psyched it was great technology to get a demo of it was a wonderful outcome for the hackathon that the OpenShift consulting team that Red Hat staffed that thing and it was just wonderful to see all those women in tech working together and Ryan stepping up as an ally and working on getting these problems solved and getting the image up and running it was pretty impressive so thank you all for all your work and we will talk to you again soon we will let Eleanor and Ryan go back to their conference now that we have stolen their lunch hour we don't have to eat whatever nibbles people left but we will definitely get all of this up and running again and talk to you all soon and if you would like to be in the special interest group on machine learning drop me an email at d-m-u-e-l-l-e-r at redhat.com thanks all thank you thank you


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Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime. Listen. Jacques Monard at the Bench Vice, the jaws of which clamped the inch diameter handle of an Alpenstock. Now the handle is much shorter than it used to be, a fine length now for hiding under one's trench coat. He gets the trench coat, throws it over his left arm, over the Alpenstock, and walks out into a grey Mexican day. An Alpenstock for those among you who do not bother with mountain climbing and its accoutrements is the slender axe used to chip away ice, to make footholds or hand holes or whatever, and is usually very, very sharp. Tonight, my report to you on the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. Now once again, Mr. Thomas Highland. Leon Trotsky, revolutionist, son of a farmer, was born in Russia in 1879 and died in Mexico City in 1940. He received but small education, yet he was an avid reader. When he was in his early teens he came across a volume written by a German named Karl Marx, and immediately Leon's path was set. Before he was 20 he was arrested as a radical and sent to Siberia. In 1902 he escaped and went into exile, from France to Belgium to Germany and finally to England, always preaching his doctrine of world revolution. In London he met Nikolai Lenin, and the lasting conspiracy for evil was born. We must proclaim uncompromising hostility to all religion. Said Leon Trotsky when he returned to Russia in 1905 and went about the land mouthing terror. And revolution! And there will be a night of the long knives, and the blood must flow to balance the wrong. He said in 1917 on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution, Blood must flow, and on its currents we will ride to power. For this is the start of it, and the full tide of it will cover the world. He said, and when the October Revolution was done, Trotsky became general of the Bolshevik armies and commissar of the armies and war and marine, and wrote a book. I call this volume the defense of terror. Why? Terror is an emotion. It is the one to which all others are sublimated. Terror transforms compassion into hatred, kindness into greed. It causes brother to turn against brother, child against parent, husband against wife. And? And therefore those who control the instruments of terror control human emotions. Those who control the emotions of humankind control humanity. The result of which, if this theory is projected to its consummation, those with courage to disseminate terror to every corner of the world have in their hands the power of the world. Everything was going good for Leon Trotsky, and then another power-maddened man appeared, another expert in terror, Joseph Stalin. Trotsky tangled with him, lost, and he was thrown out of Russia. First he went to Turkey, then to France, then to Scandinavia, and finally he arrived at the place that would become his tomb, Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City. And Natalia? Yes, Leon? Come, come, come. It is time. The rabbits are hungry. Yes, yes, yes. Here's the food. They fight, they fight. Even rabbits, innocuous, gentle animals, beasts now. Foods and they fight.  Leon. Yes? Tell me. We'll go back. Yes. Why each day must I tell you, Natalia, that one day we'll go back. Russia will belong to us again. This is the promise of my heart. Mr. Trotsky. Sheldon. Mr. Trotsky. Here, Sheldon, the hutches. I wonder about Sheldon. Why? Motivations. Why... Sheldon. Sheldon, Mrs. Trotsky has been wondering about you. Huh? The word she used was... Motivations. Motivations. Still you wonder.  What is my cause, Sheldon? Terror. World revolution. It's necessary that I keep you alive. That's my motivation. That's why I'm your bodyguard. Why do you forsake riches? For you are wealthy, Sheldon. I'm told of the stature of a millionaire in your own country. Then why do you forsake these riches and come to us and live this small life of watchdog, of gunman? Excitement. But this is a peaceful life of rabbits and tees and books. Excitement. Wherever you are, Leon, promised violence, it's like there, that sleeping volcano, and we live on the edge of it. It is truly that. Here, Sheldon, help us feed the rabbit. Flight now to meet an assassin. Hurl the imagination eastward and north across the sea and to France. Paris, France. The sound of Paris. Darling, darling, darling. It's voice. It's charm. And I'll miss you. I'll miss you so much when you're in Mexico. But there's this day still and the next before you go. And there's time still. All the time there's left for the world if we just make it so. Darling, darling, darling. Sue. This day and the next. Now, how shall we start it? Sue, listen. Tell me a wonderful word, Jock. A sweet grit and strange and wonderful word. Listen to me. Yes. You know a lot of people in Mexico City, don't you? Yes. Oh, yes. But time is spinning away and we... And in Coyoacan? One. This man, this one you told me about. Sheldon. What of him? Oh, what of him. Rich and therefore wonderful. Serval, therefore dangerous. Bodyguard to Leon Trotsky, you told me. Yes. Time spins away, Jock. Time spins away. Darling, darling. Yes. Who are you? I am from Paris. A letter was to have preceded me, did it? What kind of a letter? With regards to passport from here to Mexico. Come in. Your name is? Jacques Monard. Also known as Salvador Torkov. Also known as Jacques van den Drescht. As Ramondo Rio Mercado. They must have sent quite a dossier on me. They did. Well? They had wisdom to send you here to Montreal first. Oh. To me, that is. I have heard your craftsmanship is exquisite. Yes, yes it is. For example? You're impatient, aren't you? Is my passport ready? Yes. Here. Well? Exquisite. And so my name is now Frank Jackson. Yes. The price is? They gave me $3,500. They said you would ask me for that much. If you please. Here. This envelope. Count it if you wish. No need. If I am cheated, I'll see to it you're taken. Goodbye. So Jacques Monard became Frank Jackson, a journey now to Mexico and Mexico City and there by himself a fine car and visit the places of Gayety and there leave the after images of... There was a cause once in the world. Now it is no more for it has been betrayed. He would say... By a man named Stalin. He would say... And then... And this cause lost for a small while. I hugged to my bosom. Where is this man they call Leon Trotsky? If he would have it, I'd give my strong right arm. In the bistros of Mexico. I'd give what wealth I had. A few pesos, amigo. And if it were not enough, I'd give my life. Who are you? Frank Jackson. From where are you? From Paris. And I know you. Oh? Sheldon. How did you know? You've been pointed out to me. Why? There was a girl in Paris soon. Oh. She said we should meet. Why? Because there was a cause once in the world. Now it is no more for it has been betrayed. Drink with me. Amigo. Yes? There is symbolism here. Soon here in the bull ring the blood will spill and the mob will howl. A clever symbol, Sheldon.  One day perhaps you'll meet a truly clever man. Oh? But now, the bull. Truly a clever man. I like to listen to you talk, Sheldon. One day perhaps you'll meet a truly clever man. Oh? Listen. Listen, Amigo. Yes? How would you like to meet Leon Trotsky? It would take a clever man to arrange that. How would you like to meet him? Mr. Trotsky, I would like to present Frank Jackson. Mr. Jackson? Leon Trotsky. And for the first time these two lives touched. They shook hands, they stepped apart and they looked at each other. And they smiled. You are listening to Crime Classics and your host, Thomas Highland. It would be a wonderful world indeed if one single check to one single charity took care of man's obligation to his fellow man for all time. And it would be wonderful too if one single pint of blood donated just once in a lifetime, took care of all future needs. But the need for blood is a continuing one, as are the needs for charitable contributions of other kinds. Phone your local Red Cross or nearest hospital blood bank and donate again. The great need for blood must be met wherever it arises and whenever. And now once again, Thomas Highland and the second act of Crime Classics and his report to you on the assassination of Leon Trotsky. For those of you who have forgotten 1940, a few reminders. The Germans entered Paris ten days after the British evacuation at Dunkirk. There was an eclipse of the sun. And on July 7 at one of the most famous seances in history, there was still no word from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Senator William E. Bora died that year and Italy invaded France. In Nevada there was a renaissance of the tune Tippi Tippi Tin. And at a seance held in Reno, still no word from Conan Doyle. It was the year of murder incorporated and the year the Luftwaffe tried to blast England off the map. And all this, headlines in Mexico, far away events to be discussed over tequila and salt and lemon, nothing really to get excited about. At least not very many people. These are necessary tortures. You will see my friend, you will see. Leon Trotsky in his garden talking to his new friend. Yes, you will see, Mr. Jackson, all this. The war, the explosions all over the world, machinations of governments which will be useful to us. The way I see it. Yes. Surely what small observations I may make are of little interest to you. Please, please continue.  Then should be the time of you. The time of Leon Trotsky. My friend. Yes. You believe this true? Surely you know it. Yes, yes, I suppose I do. Yet I must hear it from others. From time to time people must come to me and dedicate themselves to me and tell me such things. In Paris there was a book I had, a book so dear, so consuming that I had it with me always. For the times of my solitude, for the times of my disenchantment. And the book was? Your book, The Defense of Terror. Young man. Yes? About the book. Why? Why this fascination? There was a passage in it. Terror is an emotion. It is the one to which all others are sublimated. Terror transforms compassion into hatred. Kindness and greed. It causes brother to turn against brother. Child against parent. Husband against wife. And therefore... Yes. Yes, yes. And so many of us wait for your return. Yes. And one day you will return. Yes. And from a pinnacle lead the world. Natalia. Forgive me, Mr. Jackson, but my wife beckoned me from the house. Would you like to meet my wife? I want to. Come in. A word of caution, Mr. Jackson. Yes? Too much passion, too much zeal.  She is of devotion to me, but she is of gentleness. Yes. Natalia. Natalia, this young man is a new friend, Frank Jackson. I am honored, Mrs. Trotsky. You are welcome. Are you new in Mexico, Mr. Jackson? From Paris. And a friend of Sheldon's. I see. Leon. Yes? I'm afraid my trip to Veracruz cannot happen. What? At least not tomorrow. Our automobile cannot be repaired for three or four days. The garage has informed me, and I will not ride a train. Oh, that's too bad. Mrs. Trotsky. Yes? I have a car. I would be honored if you permitted me to drive you to Veracruz. Surely you're not serious. Not only serious, but selfish. For if you permit me to drive you to Veracruz, you will necessarily feel some small obligation toward me. And this is what I wish. Oh. And therefore you will perhaps invite me into your household for an evening perhaps. And then taking a liking toward me, invite me back again and again. And I write dialectics. What do you think, Leon? This aggressive young man. This pushing young man. Well, I like him. He has an automobile, and you wish to go to Veracruz, and he wishes to take you. I say go with him. Very well, Mr. Jackson. Thank you so very much. Of course. And that night the thing happened. Sheldon, a bodyguard Sheldon, was making his rounds, seeing the doors were locked and bolted and windows properly barred. In the morning, the guardian over the sleeping Leon and Mrs. Trotsky. It was about one o'clock in the morning when he passed the double oaken gate in the courtyard. Who is it? No one answered. So Sheldon walked over and opened the peephole. Oh, it's you. There were about twenty men in Mexican Army uniforms, stolen uniforms. Who it was that Sheldon recognized the leader of the men is not known. The Trotsky fortress was sprayed with machine gun fire. Leon and Natalia Trotsky threw themselves into a corner between the bed and the wall. Betrayed. Betrayed. An assailant, features obscured by the dark, empties his gun into the bedding. The Trotsky's were not killed. They were only impressed with the knowledge that though they had left Russia years ago, still their life was considered forfeit. And the twenty men rode away. And they came to a mesa ten miles away and they stopped. And they threw a man upon the ground. A bound and gagged man named Sheldon. And one of the men asked the leader, What shall we do with him? Yes. Amigo. Mrs. Trotsky. Mr. Trotsky. Mr. Natalia. Please. Young man, young man go away. I've come to give you whatever help. Oh, tell him, tell him to go. Young man. As soon as I heard, listen, listen to what I've done. My wife is unnerved as you see and the doctor said she should... Please listen. Very well. I went with the police. We traced the men to a mesa to the west. According to tracks, there were perhaps twenty of them. What of Sheldon? There was blood at a place on the mesa. Then the tracks of a single horse to a lime pit nearby as if Sheldon were dragged to the edge of it. Now the police are searching the pit. Oh, they will find him in it. Tell me what to do. What do you mean? What things can I do to help? Should I ride toward the mountains and try to find the men who came here last night or... Or what? Mrs. Trotsky, shall I take her to Veracruz? This trying time, a drive there would be medication. Will she go now? After last night. I think she should. I am no physician, of course. But I should think... Natalia. I want to stay here with you. For my sake, go. Please, please go to Natalia. I'll be all right. How did I know our enemies are close? I'll be doubly careful. Go. The doctor advised it. Yes. Yes, yes. Harrowing experience. But the sunshine and change of scenery will do you good. You're very kind. Mrs. Trotsky? Yes. May I ask you a question? Yes. But a personal question? No, no, I'd rather you wouldn't. It's just that I've wondered... What a marriage must be yours to be wed to greatness. What joy there must be for you. Thank you. That wasn't too personal, was it? It pleased me. And I must tell you this. In some small way, I know how you must feel. For a kind of ecstasy is with me these days. I've been close to your husband. I must tell you, I worship greatness and your husband... Yes, I know. Gosh. Natalia. What?   I only called you by your first name. It's an intimacy. I'm sorry. Please, I'm very sorry. Very well. Now I dare not ask you what I had planned. No, no do not. What is it? I've written a paper, a treatise on the popular front. Yes. Preveal upon your husband, ask him to read it. And that is what you had planned to ask me? Yes. Of course I'll ask him. Surely. A devious young man. My province is not to conjecture upon his method. Just to report it. And so he took Mrs. Trotsky to Vera Cruz. And there they saw a friend of hers off to Sweden. And spent a small time shopping. And drove back to Koyakan. Natalia Trotsky, after suitably greeting her husband... A treatise, he said, about the popular front. And you promised him? Refuse if you wish. It doesn't matter. No, no, I look at it. He's been kind. Tell him I look at it. And she told him. And she made an appointment for him for 5.30 the next afternoon. Then the young man procured from some source, which history does not report, an Alpenstock. You remember? He needed to shorten it. So he put it in a bench vise and sawed some six inches off the handle. Now the handle is a fine length for hiding under his trench coat. And the young man walks out into a grey Mexican day. In 10 minutes he was at the heavily barricaded Trotsky home. Through a system of mirrors he was identified and admitted. Through electrically controlled gates. Hello, Mr. Jackson. Here it is. Yes, I'm delighted that you should want me to read it.  No, I could not. Oh, why? Nerves. I am so anxious for your approval of this treatise. You will forgive my pacing. Very well.  Please, please. Now, let me see. The present struggle has brought into being two powers in reality. And the essential struggle is to find out... Yes, good, good. And the... Mr. Jackson. Oh, thank you, I didn't see you standing right in back of me.   Twenty-six hours later, on August 21, 1940, Leon Trotsky was dead. The tine of the pickaxe in his brain. His assassin was sentenced to 20 years by a Mexican court. And still today is a prisoner in the federal penitentiary. He lives well. He has a drawing account of almost $400 a month, the source of which has never been revealed. As a matter of fact, when he has asked anything about the crime... I had to do it. Why? They made me. Who? I can't tell you. The Russian police? Oh, no. Then who? I can't tell you. Now, leave me alone. He has a girlfriend who comes to visit him on weekends. And all in all, he's a happy fellow. He's eligible for parole. Oh, I just want to tell you one more thing. May I? Go right ahead. I don't want a parole. Afraid Trotsky will be avenged? I just don't want a parole, that's all. Quick biography of an assassin. In just a moment, Thomas Highland will tell you about next week's crime classic. Leon Trotsky, tonight's crime classic, was adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The music was composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann, and the program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. Thomas Highland is portrayed on radio by Lou Merrill. In tonight's story, Herb Butterfield was heard as Leon Trotsky, Jack Krushin as Jacques, and Irene Tedrow as Natalia Trotsky. Featured in the cast were Melitza Milo, Barney Phillips, Edgar Berrier, and Charles Calvert, Gil Warren speaking. And here again is Thomas Highland. Next week, the well-scrubbed stoops of Baltimore, Maryland. Two fellows who should have been out rooting for the home team instead got ambitious and involved. It's listed in my files as the death of a Baltimore birdie and friend. Thank you. Good night. 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