Suspense. Radio's outstanding theatre of thrills brings you an hour, a full 60 minutes of suspense. Tonight starring Mr. Robert Ryan and Ms. Ruth Warwick in a play by Devory Freeman, entitled Beyond Reason, edited and directed by Anton M. Leeder and produced by Robert Montgomery. This is Robert Montgomery. Well, well over a year on the average of five times a week. My news boy and I have engaged in the same spirited conversation. Each evening I greet him with anything in the papers and each evening he answers with, no, same old stuff. Then I spend part of the evening reading the Chronicle of the Days events, the same old stuff. And I learn that the tensions in the world are greater or lesser, that some people want high taxes and some people want low, that some people are born and some are married and some are divorced and some are dead. Same old stuff. Yesterday a man walked out under his front porch, lost his balance on the top step and one minute later he was dead. An hour ago a wife in Fort Wayne, Indiana went to the hospital. Ten minutes ago she became a mother. One cycle of life completed, another just beginning. And the newspaper will report them both, clearly, accurately and without editorial comment. We can assume that in each of these homes the old patterns of living are broken and the new ones are in formation. But we can't know what happens next in the history of these two families. And these are very real stories that begin with birth or death. We have one for you today, a story entitled Beyond Reason and it began this way. At exactly 7.22 on the night of January 5th, Pinkton Carr reached the corner of Post and Stockton Streets in downtown San Francisco. He was feeling fine. He stopped for a moment to look at an attractive window display and then still looking back, he stepped off the curtain. Hey, look out! No! You hit him! Stop! Stop! Stop it and run, driver! Stop him! Oh no, don't look! Oh, the poor man! Call an ambulance! Somebody call an ambulance! This guy's hurt bad! I saw it, I saw it happen. He just stepped off the curtain. Somebody call an ambulance! Call an ambulance! Who is he? You know who is he? You mean who was he? Oh, the poor man! Next day the newspapers put it briefly and concisely in a small headline on page 4. Businessman hit. Businessman hit run victim. You probably read it. Not very interesting unless you knew him. The police were working on the case. Maybe one day soon they'd tracked down the car. Maybe. It looked like just another one of those things soon forgotten, over and done with. But a tragedy like that can be a beginning as well as an end. It can start a whole chain of events. Generate a whole series of reactions. It can become the genesis of fear. Especially in the mind as sensitive as the mind of a Vangelin car. The eldest of three daughters. Vangy car. Beautiful, lonely, susceptible. Daddy. Darling daddy. Why did he have to die that way? How could such a thing have happened to him? Accidents like that don't happen to people like him. Not without some reason. Couldn't have been an accident. It couldn't have been. Who is this man? Harry Newton. This man suddenly becomes so important in our lives. My father's business partner they say. Oh, but my father never had a business partner. Never, I'm sure of that. He would have told me. But then who is Harry Newton? He was a hard one to pin down, Miss Carr. Doesn't have a home, not even a permanent address. He just seems to drift around. Was he up here in San Francisco the night my father was killed? I checked that. No, he wasn't. But he was here that day. Like that's the day your father and he signed the pavers that made them partners. That day? Yeah. That's the date on the contract. He left Frisco on the four o'clock plane. An accident happened about 7.30. Yes. He seems to be the promoter type. Somebody else always takes the risk. How could my father have made a man like that his partner? The contract is perfectly legal, Vanjie. He is your father's partner. But why? Why did dad ever take him in? Dad contributed all the property. This man contributed nothing. Nothing but himself. Evidently your father thought he was a super salesman. You see they had planned to subdivide and sell the acreage here at Della Vista. And he's determined to go through with it. No, I'm afraid there's not much we can do. No, I suppose not. I'm sorry. This is very trying for you and your sisters and no. Perhaps when he comes up here we can persuade him. He's coming here? Of course. To look the place over. He'll have to stay here quite a bit to get the work started. Yes, of course. I must have realized that only. I never really let myself think about how someday I'd have to meet him face to face. Vanjie, be careful. You don't trust him either, do you? No. I don't trust him either. Just an everyday accident. But it can be the beginning of many things. Especially when the dead man leaves unfinished business behind. Unfinished business and 400 choice suburban acres between the highway and the sea. 400 undeveloped acres in which any real estate man would see the possibilities. Add to that a partner like Harry Newton and three beautiful daughters. Especially a daughter like Vanjie. I just fell down, getting out of your way.  I'm sorry. I came around the bend and didn't see you until... Oh no, it was my fault. I shouldn't have been walking in the middle of the road. A dreaming like that. I'm all right. Thanks.  I know. I started out at the age of two playing with electric light sockets. Since I nearly knocked you down I better introduce myself. My name's Harry Newton. And I always cross streets when the light is green. Getting by in life merely requires the ability to take advantage of green lights. And the ability to recognize red lights. Huh? I'm Evangeline Carr. So... So you're Vanjie, the beautiful one. No, no, Grace is the beautiful one. And Susie? She's the cute one, the baby. And you, Vanjie? Oh, I'm... Well, I'm just me, Vanjie. The plain one, the old maid. Just because you're the oldest? Mr. Newton. You wouldn't be interested in me. No? Maybe I like plain girls. That was the way it was. So suddenly I couldn't prepare for it. And I'd met Harry Newton. But what about all those questions and fears in my mind? What happened to them? I didn't know. Downstairs, Harry Newton was talking to Aunt Martha. Of course you'll realize, Mr. Newton, this is merely an interview. Our only knowledge of you is that my brother entrusted you with some of his real estate ventures. He didn't entrust me with anything, Andy. He watched me like a hawk. You'll realize, of course, the responsibilities that go with this venture. We know nothing of your character or affiliations. Perhaps you can supply some of the details. I've got a credit card with the Union Oil Company. Look, Andy, I came 400 miles from Los Angeles to discuss the promotion of a subdivision. It's a little late for references. I'm in this deal with both feet in a legal document. Are you handling it for the kids? Well, not exactly. Well, let's have a drink and make small talk. You'll learn more about me that way. How about it? Thank you, no. You can make yourself at home. Dinner is at seven. Okay, thanks. Thanks very much. Let a lady make a phone call when she doesn't know she's not alone. That's rule number... Who are you? Harry Newton. Who are you, Grace? No, I'm Susie. The youngest. You're the man who murdered my father. That's a pretty big statement for a little girl. I say it only as an apology for having thought it. I accept your apology. Only don't say it again. I won't. You're going back to Los Angeles soon? Tomorrow. Would you like company? A passenger? I said company. Your aunt will ask for character references. I didn't ask for any. You got yourself a ride, junior. You wouldn't be thinking of leaving earlier. Uh-uh. I'm sleeping over. Our first customer is coming to dinner. Who? People by the name of Burkhardt. Oh.  They're awful boars. And get set for some boring neighbors. We plan to sell them a lot. That's too bad. I love company, but I think I'll develop a headache and stay in my room tonight. Unless I can change your mind about leaving. Shall we change the subject? Suit yourself. I just don't want to press my luck too far. All that evening, through dinner with the Burkhards, through the business talks that followed, all I could do was watch him, listen to his voice. I'd never expected a man like this. Never expected him to make me feel like this. Like I felt when he smiled and said goodnight. Like I felt when he drove away with Susie for Los Angeles next morning. Like I felt when he called me long distance. How are you getting along up there without me, Vangie? I suppose we're just barely managing. Good. I'll have to hurry back. The surveyors will be here next week. Who cares? I don't want to waste this call talking business. I just want to talk to you. I'm afraid so. And still as plain as ever. Yes. Wonderful. Don't ever change, Vangie. All right. Why did I laugh? And why did I go around walking on air? He was just flirting, probably with a purpose. For business reasons. But I didn't care. I knew it was crazy, but I didn't care. I counted the days until he'd be back. When he came, he brought me a gift. A quilted velvet robe. Aunt Martha said it looked like the inside of a coffin. But I liked it. And I liked the funny little note that went with it. After a few days seeing him, talking to him, began to fill my thoughts so completely that I couldn't sleep. So one night I walked down through the rose garden into a little tea house on the edge of the palace. I was sitting there watching the moonlight in a certain far below. Oh, it's you. What's the matter? You're not asleep tonight? I have things on my mind. Like real estate? And me? Yes. I'm trying to make some sort of plan. I'd just like to feel my way along. See how far I can go. Plans are good to start with, then you follow your instinct. I like to know where I'm going. And you don't? I'm not sure. You've never asked me a lot of questions like the others. But I suppose you've been wondering why your father and I were doing business together. Why you invited me in? I knew there must have been a reason. Reason? I met him in Palm Springs, gave him a tip on a horse and it won. He figured he owed me something. That's hard to believe. Isn't it? Well, of course he liked me, too. He thought I had guts and brains. Beyond that, he didn't want to know a thing. And if he had? I'd have told him. Come here. Harry, no. You're still afraid to follow your instincts? I don't know. Come here. It's all so crazy. Two weeks ago, Harry Newton was just a name. He hated and feared. There's nothing of that now. Now he's a man. A man that I love. My husband. We drove to Las Vegas and were married in a little chapel there. Then we had a fast honeymoon, play roulette, seeing Boulder Dam, just having fun being together. And when we came home again, the words were still ringing in my ears. For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer in sickness and in health. To love and cherish until death do us part. Until death do us part. I've moved my things into a corner room, Banjie, so that you and he may have the suite. Relax, Andy. This is strictly temporary. We'll probably go to Los Angeles eventually. All Harry's friends are there. Meanwhile, I'll have my stuff shipped out through the munch. It's packed away in Lou Danches apartment. He's the one I was telling you about. Well, you were away. There was a phone call from Mr. Newton. From a Miss Kitty Platt. Kitty Platt? The girl I used to date. Probably wondering what happened to me. I wonder what did. Look at me. Head over heels in matrimony and... and I love her. Oh, Harry. Harry. Is that a private match or can anybody get in it? Oh. Hello, Susie. Hi. I'll have to excuse my lack of tact. I've never been a sister-in-law before and I'm in a loss. Best of everything, sis. You read it. Thank you, Susie. Is anything wrong, dear? You look awfully tired. Hasn't Harry told you? He picks a gentleman to keep a secret. Thank you, Harry. You're welcome. What a lovely wedding, Banjie. Nothing temporary about this piece of jewelry. Three passes at a craft table. Tell me, Banjie, darling. He buy you the short-order ceremony or the blue plate. It's very impressive, I understand. Bless, O Lord, this ring that he who gives it and she who wears it may abide in their peace. And it's pretty. Susie. Susie, dear. Harry.  Do you mind if I speak to her? As a member of the family, I feel I have the privilege of helping. I'll be right back. But, Harry... Banjie! What is it, Amlotha? I didn't want to talk to you, dear, while he was with you. I'm worried about Susie. She's been acting very clearly. Not eating and so jumpy. What do you suppose is wrong? I don't know. I don't know myself since she went to Los Angeles. Perhaps if you had a talk with her. Harry is doing that now. Harry? Yes. A stranger? Aunty. Oh, I'm sorry, dear. I shouldn't have said that. It's just that I can't get used to the idea. I mean his being one of us. But then I hardly know him. It's very hard to know him. Yes, I suppose it is. I only meant that perhaps someone else should talk to Susie. You think maybe Harry has something to do with Susie acting this way? Why, no Banjie. I didn't say that. No. No, of course not. Harry? Yeah? How is Susie? She'll be okay. Maybe I better talk to her. Leave her alone. She won't tell you anything. Then you tell me. That's one of those things. How do the writers put it? Unrequited love. You? Well, I love it as she hasn't told me the whole truth. What did she tell you? Say, how do you turn the heat on in this dungeon of a room? There's a gas heater in the fireplace. But what did she tell you? Harry? Look, Angel. Are you going to turn on me too? Don't do it. I need you. I've been rattling around like a pebble in this old drum of a world with nothing to grab onto. Now I'm safe. I've got somebody. This alley cat's got a home. Not you, Angel. You're my roof and four walls. Harry, please understand it. It's not that I don't trust you. But I'm worried about Susie. Okay, baby. You talk to her tomorrow. I'll be doing her good. But right now, don't worry about it. Come on. Let's get some sleep. What was that? I don't know. What time is it? Six o'clock. It's Aaron, I think. Who's Aaron? He's the gardener. Maybe look below that window there. What's up? It's Miss Susie. Susie, what about her? What about her? She's dead. Dead begets tragedy. Accidents breed more accidents. Or was this another accident? At any rate, in the grim sequence of events started by that simple accident on a city street, a second member of the car family was dead. They say tragedies strike in threes. I wonder. And so does Vangie Carl wonder. Why did it happen? Why did she do it? What did Harry know? Did he have anything to do with it? No, I mustn't. Just relax now. Rest. That's what I'm supposed to do. Relax. In a few minutes, he'll come up and tell me. Tell me what they're talking about down there. He and Aaron, my sister Grace. Tell me about it, Aaron, from the beginning. It's hard for me to tell it now, Miss Grace. It's like a dream. He hasn't told it the same way twice. But I tried to. I tried to. Mr. Newton knows that. Now try again, Aaron. Well, I was up early. Not early for me, but early. There was a mist and the ground was wet, so I wore my rubbers. I was pinning back the honeysuckle on the trellis near the garage when she came by. Didn't see me, but I saw her walking as if in her sleep. Yet she looked as if she knew where she was going. And she was dressed and combed and carried a purse. So I said good morning. But she didn't answer and went off into the mist toward the tea house on the edge of the palisade, where there's only one path. And then presently, I worked my way down the path through the rose garden to say good morning again, but she was gone. She jumped into the ocean onto the rocks below and I found a purse, that purse on the bar and that writing crop. A writing crop is mine. I left it there several days ago. Oh, I see. All right, Aaron. That's all. You may go now. All right, Miss Grace. Well, Mr. Newton? Harry's the name. Yes, of course. We are related, aren't we? Should I apologize for not belaboring you with congratulatory messages on your marriage? Some people are just naturally short on sentiment. You have other gifts. Thanks. It's just that I have an instinct of aversion to attractive men being snatched from the open market. If I ever get back on the market, I'll send you a credit slip. Planning to get back on the market? Not at this particular time. I see. Vangie. Don't turn on the light, Harry. I'll take off. Relax, Angel. I know how upset you are, but you've got to relax. I can't. I can't. Oh, Susie.  Take it easy. This way you'll just fly apart. Springs and wheels and everything. You're going to have to rest a few days. Oh, I want to know everything, Harry. Who was it? Who did this to Susie? I lied to her. Oh, no. I lied when I said Susie chose me as a confidant. The way it happened, I stumbled into the middle of her romance by accident. Then who? The neighbor of yours, Whit Burkhart. Whit Burkhart? Oh, he's married. Yeah, you see, I bumped into them in a quiet little restaurant in Los Angeles. I was about as welcome as bad news in a collect telegram. I grabbed a quick one at the bar and ran. But is that all? No. Susie made it her business to see me the next day. She wanted me to promise not to tell anyone. I'd seen them together. I let her talk and she did. Plenty. It was nice the way she told it, crying as if her insides were splintered. This fellow Burkhart had met her in Los Angeles to let her know that they'd come to the end of the line. He was afraid his wife was getting wise. So they had one last rendezvous. That's all, except the way she loved this guy. He must be all right. Oh, no, Harry. The man doesn't have to be all right for a woman to love. The next few days I spent in bed, I was supposed to relax, but I couldn't. There's too much to think about. Even the doctor's pills didn't help. Little things made impressions on me. Little things that people said. Your husband took me riding this morning, darling. Tell me, Vanjie, how did you ever trap him? I don't know. He just seemed to like me. Well, I guess we're not hard to like. Daddy left us quite a bit of a lure. A square block in San Francisco for theaters. Two open-air markets and a lovely office building in Los Angeles. Ensured a real estate man's paradise. Grace. Sorry, darling. He's so different from my faithful, methodical Lenny. I'm just jealous. Aren't you flattered? You're making yourself irresistible. I just got tired of looking like something that's been left out in the rain. Flowers do all right. You're very sweet, Harry, but I know my limitations. Nonsense. I think you're very attractive. But not beautiful, like Grace. If we take her for a measuring stick. No one would take Grace for a measuring stick or any other kind of stick. She's the sexy type. Nice of you to come, Mrs. Burkhart. Cigarette? No thanks. Whit made me give up smoking. He really babies me that man. He wants me to go away for a two-week rest. I told him I felt fine, but he insisted. Was that when he went to Los Angeles? Los Angeles? Whit hasn't been to Los Angeles in four years. I know he went along with me. Of course she was lying. Her husband had been to Los Angeles, just as Harry said he had with Susie. He must have been. She was just trying to make Harry look bad and so were the rest of them. That's why I took to listening to find out what they were up to. To protect Harry. And listen. Even from behind doors. Hello, Newton. You remember me? Garnet, the lawyer? Uh-huh. Is Mrs. Newton too ill for a visitor? Yes, she is. What do you want? It's in regard to your suggestion, Mr. Newton, that arrangements be made to give you power of attorney in matters pertaining to delivista. You can lower your voice.  Any request of that nature should be gone over with all parties concerned. I said lower your voice. Of course. Two untimely tragedies have decreased the number of parties concerned. I'd say you have two down and two to go, Mr. Newton. What do you mean by that? Have you discussed this matter with Mrs. Newton? There's no reason for her to object. On the other hand, there's Grace Carr. He was spoken to her? Not more than a moment ago. It's no go, Newton. This Carr, it seems, has developed quite an interest in delivista or some aspects of it. She intends to work with you as closely as possible. That sounds engaging. Yes. For you, it should be a cinch, Newton. I understand you're quite a hand with the ladies. Well, I've had my innings. I listened to everything. Sometimes I woke up in the middle of the night and listened. I listened to Harry and Grace downstairs talking. Laughing. Laughing. They laugh together a lot these days. Harry, you're wonderful. I don't know how you did it. What's up, partner? Telegram from Jim Strand. He's willing to talk terms, and he's free to talk tonight. Well, for heaven's sake, let's be sociable. Maybe we can have the deal signed and moving tomorrow. That means staying over in San Francisco tonight. I'll take care of the hotel reservations. Oh, I pressure Harry. We'll take him to the best restaurant in town and we'll order their best meal. Are you worried about your figure? No. Are you worried about? See you later. Hello. I went to Grovener in San Francisco. A charming little hotel. Oh, it's you. Hello, Angel. I thought you were in bed. How's your headache? Better. I'd like to go along with you, Harry. Tonight? In your condition? What's wrong with me? Don't you want my company? You're not up to it. You're sick. I said I'm better. I've decided to help you. Help me? Grace helps you. She tags along. Can't I tag along, too? Please, Harry, I want to go with you. All right. Why not? In this afternoon, I wanted to take me riding. Did you know I could ride? I'm better than Grace. I've won cups. Shall we go riding this afternoon? Sure, Angel. Maybe that's a good idea. What's that, Grace? I don't know, Aunt Martha. I can't see. The fog is rolling in. It's a horse. But no rider. For Harry's, it's tearing down the path toward the highway, probably heading for the stables. Aunt Martha, something's happened. I knew it. I knew it. Come on. Here comes the other one. It's Harry. He's carrying Vangie. Hi. Hi. Help me get her up to her room. Please stop acting silly. I wasn't hurt a bit. Yes, she was. Her shoulder's bruised. I'm calling Dr. Rupert. And what's more, you're going to the clinic tomorrow for X-rays. No sense taking chances. What happened? A horse boulder. Why? I don't know. Maybe Harry does. Yes. He was riding just behind. Did you see any reason for it, Harry? No. Not a thing. I tell you, Harry, there's nothing wrong with me. Nothing but a simple old-fashioned headache. Maybe you can grab some sleep before the doctor gets here. Why are you making such a fuss? Is it because you don't want me with you in San Francisco? You certainly can't go until we're sure you're all right. Then you're going without me. We'll talk about it later. Get some sleep, Angel. What are you doing? Connecting up your heater. This room is like a tomb. If we take the chill off, maybe you'll sleep.  Are we back on that again? Oh, I'm sorry. Harry. What? I've made you angry with me, haven't I? No. Do you love me? Sure. Strange as Mary devours it. It's more like an affair. It happens so fast. We don't really know each other, do we, Harry? Why did you want me, Harry? Because I love you. Because you love me. Yet if I were gone tomorrow, would there be another to take my place as there were others before me? I don't answer that. I get sillier by the minute. Forgive me, darling. There's nothing to forgive. Yes, there is. I won't be silly anymore. I'm sure you won't, Angel. Good night. I'll see that you're not disturbed. Harry. I come to that state of mind. The senses are so drugged with fatigue, there's an end to caring. Almost. The doubts, the fears loomed up and developed me, yet I was getting drowsy. Reality was becoming distorted into nightmare. There was a strange ringing in my ears, and I began to see things like a dream. I thought I saw a pookie, my canary, lying in the bottom of this cage. These little legs thrust definitely upward. There. Then I was hearing things. A hissing snake. Down on the floor. I saw it. Coiled up by the hilly. I must. I must. Grace. Laughing. Laughing with Harry. Somehow, for the first time, I didn't care. She had no cause to cloak. Nothing happened to her, too. Just like it happened to death. And it's true. And like it was happening to me. Tonight's full hour of suspense, Mr. Robert Ryan appears as Harry Newton and Ms. Ruth Warwick appears as Vanjie Carr, in Beyond Reason. Tonight's study in Suspense. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Back to our Hollywood soundstage and to our producer, Mr. Robert Montgomery, with two of Beyond Reason, starring Ruth Warwick and Robert Ryan, in a narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense. It started with a fatal accident on a street corner in San Francisco. You probably read about it in the papers a few weeks ago. Just an everyday accident. But it was an end and a beginning. An end for Pinkton Carr, who was killed, and a beginning for his three daughters, and Harry Newton. But with a sequence of events half played through, there are now only two daughters. One down and two to go. And right now, lying on the bed in her room, is Vanjie Carr, the hiss of gas, loud in her ears, drowning out the thoughts, the fears, and the voices of sister Grace and Harry Newton in the living room below. I told Jim Strand we'd meet him at nine. We can make it if we hurry. Where's Auntie? She's resting. Okay, let's go. What about Mrs. Newton? Shall we take a peek? No, no. She'll wake up if I go in. Let her sleep. I could be back by midnight if we hurry. Let's just go. I dreamed church bells were tolling my dead. Not someone was stuffing my throat with nostrils with cotton padding. I couldn't breathe. My limbs were bound to the bed. I tried to scream, but I couldn't stand the spin. The bed was spinning. The whole room was spinning like a whirlpool, ever narrowing, until finally it was as thin as the sound of a bell. Oh, Dr. Rupert. I just got your message. In out all day. How is she? She seems quite well. I guess my call was a little hasty. What happened? Fell off a horse. That girl, always something. It's been that way as long as I've known her. So she thought she was strong enough to go riding. Maybe that's my fault. It was the horse's fault. Well, I'll go up and have a look. Jesus, she's sleeping. Oh, that's always good medicine. Going someplace? Business appointment. Oh, good night. Is that crash? That came from Banjie's room. There's something wrong. Lighting lights. Changing colors. Shifting designs. The noises. Somehow recognizable human voices. Banjie. You have a blanket. It's good for I could kill her. I always think I'm just remotely. She's a murderer. Listen to me. I know. She's a murderer. Banjie, lots of coffee. More coffee. Kill her. Blank. Murder. Murder. Banjie. Murder. Banjie. Banjie. Good morning, Angel. Oh, Harry. I spent a tough night, but you came through it as good as new. Last night I wanted to shoot myself. It's all my fault. Oh, no. No, it's not. Don't say that. I thought I connected the heater fine, but something must have happened. Maybe I kicked the pipe. I don't know. Harry. Banjie. Listen to me before they come back in. They may say things about me. Your aunt's got some weird ideas about what happened. Don't listen to them, Banjie. Don't listen to them. I won't, Harry. I love you, Angel. That's all that matters, isn't it? Yes. Yes, that's all that matters. Well, what's wrong? Nothing, Harry. You don't believe me. I do, Harry. I do believe you love me. That is, I want to believe you. I want to more than anything else in the world. You've got to. Are we going to sleep some more? She's up, Dr. Rupert. There's a lucky girl. What a fine room for such an accident. Big and drafty. Poor pookie, my poor pookie. I'm sorry, Aunt Martha. It's too bad you didn't knock over the bed table sooner. But then it was soon enough, thank heaven. You should get some sleep, Mr. Newton. I'll settle for a cup of coffee. And as for you, Angel, no more trouble while I'm gone. No. You must reassure him, Vangie. He's eaten with remorse. Disappointment, you mean? He considers the accident his fault. Accident? You keep calling it an accident. Your auntie, Vangie, is very disturbed and full of wild theories. There's no need to theorize. The blame is all mine. I've got to get some water. This sleeping pill made me groggy. I must have stumbled on the gas hose and pulled it out without realizing it. I'm always doing things like that. Yes, you are, as long as I've known you. You know, those of us who go through life with a predisposition toward having accidents, we actually will them to happen. We who are thus disposed live closer to the edge of time than others.  We fall from high places. We are bitten by snakes and sucked in by riptides. If there's poison oak, we will find it. If there are live wires, we will touch them. We are wedded to calamity. We are indeed wedded to calamity indeed. You may discount the other nonsense and be sure of the last. Wedded to calamity. No, no, I mustn't listen to such things. I mustn't think such things. How could I? When I saw the genuine concern, the pride in his face, and I heard the love in his voice. In those days when I lay resting for my narrow escape, he was sweet, sweet enough to convince me I wasn't alone, not really, not even when he was away in San Francisco on business. Hello? Oh, darling. Oh, darling, I've missed you. San Francisco might as well be on the other side of the world. Oh, no, darling, come home tonight. Well, then try to. Oh, please, Harriet. What? Unto eternity. Oh, yes, darling, yes. I love you unto eternity. Yes, darling, yes. Goodbye. But suddenly, I was feeling alone again. Unto eternity, he said. What did he mean? Eternity? The word made me shudder. Hello? You don't seem to recognize me. I'm Lenny Walden. Grace's friend. Oh, yes, yes, of course. Won't you come in? Thanks. Grace isn't here? Well, no. I didn't really expect it to be. I just thought that... You too haven't quarreled, have you? No. Well, yes, I guess so. Oh, I'm sorry. Well, it was my fault, Jealous. I'm in love with Grace, you know. Well, I won't bother you anymore with my problems. Do you care to tell me just what or who you're Jealous of? I'd rather not. Then may I guess? You're Jealous of my husband. Well, don't be. My husband is very much in love with me. If anything, he merely tolerates the way Grace tags along after him and putters in real estate. I guess you're right, Mrs. Newton. It's just that when I saw them dancing... Dancing? Well, Grace didn't even tell me she was in town. Somebody saw them at the band box and called me. I guess I was steamed up and anxious to jump at conclusions.  Not at all. Just a little hasty. I've got to hand it to you, Vanjie. You're a lot more broad-minded than I am. I envy you. Envy me. Envy me. When I was so alone and frightened, when he'd gone, I went upstairs to our room. Frantically, I looked through his luggage, went through his clothes, searching, searching for some clue, some clue to the man I married. But there was nothing. And I had to know. Now I had to know. Long distance. Give me the Hotel Grosvenor in San Francisco. Thank you. I had to know. I asked him to come home and go to him anything. Oh, Mr. Newton, please. Room 724. One moment. It was Grace's voice. Without the slightest doubt. I ran out to my car. Grace had answered that telephone in Harry's room. And I knew. Now I was sure of it all. Harry had killed Susie. Whether it had been suicide or murder he'd killed her. And in the same way he would kill me. Hey, hey, look at that. That car better slow down for that turn. Hey, look. The sequence of events comes to full circle. It started with an automobile accident. Was it going to end with another one? At least this was one they couldn't blame on Harry Newton. Vanjie simply drove too fast, tried to make a shortcut to San Francisco through a tree rushing to her husband. In the end he had to rush to the emergency hospital to her. But she was all right. The indestructible Vanjie. Perennial accident case. Always smelling of antiseptics and painted with iodide. I lay there between hospital sheets pretending that the hypodermic needle had put me to sleep. But I was listening to Dr. Rupert as he talked to Harry and Aunt Martha. The wife's first unfortunate experience. I had a vague suspicion that the circumstances were not entirely accidental. What do you mean? Vanjie has twice tried to take her own life. I don't believe it. It's true. People like Vanjie are sometimes hard to define the dividing point between accident and suicide. There's a certain will to die, a subconscious compulsion which invites disaster. It's nonsense. Go on. In the matter of the gas heater, Vanjie said herself she pulled the flexible pipe by accident. Was that accident or intention? I don't believe she ever did it. It was he who really pulled the cord. No, I think it was Vanjie. She invited disaster again tonight driving a car off the road at high speed. Was it accident? But did she suddenly cease to care whether the car made that curve or not? Or did somebody temper with a steering wheel on her car? You'd better stop that, Andy. Please, Martha. You'll know too that the tendency seems to run in her family. Her father stepped in front of a moving car. And how do we know even that?  Or was pushed. Times Vanjie was drawn to self-destruction were times of mental depression. They've got to work to save her. I'll do anything, doctor. Anything you say. There'll be a lot for you to do. You have it all figured out, haven't you, doctor? And you're right, of course. Except for that about mental depression. That's not what causes it all. It's the fear. Fear of being alone. I'm not being loved. I'm not being loved by Terry Newton. I heard what he said. He'd do anything, anything. But he didn't fool me. I know he wants grace. I'm in his way. I know. They're gone now. Stikling in here. We took close. I must have some air. There was a little razor sharp blade here a little while ago. They used it to make a blood test. It's gone. No matter. In the laboratory. Just off my room. There'll be a drinking glass. If I can break that without too much noise. Glass cuts. Yes. Glass. Stop her. Stop her. She can't have gone far. Notify the highway patrol and tell Mr. Newton. Yes. And from him? What? The soundest alibi in the world. Your assurance that Danji is bent on suicide. What did I mother mean by that? The soundest alibi. Oh, no matter. I pressed close to bathroom wall with one shoulder tucked in the corner. They didn't think to look there. But someone was bound too soon. Televista. That was it.  I wanted to go home to die. I waited till my room was empty again. Then I went to the open window. It was going on morning. But it was still dark. House was pitch black. I went inside. There was a telephone. A stray ray of moonlight shone in it. I could see it plainly. And I remembered. And to eternity. To have and to hold until death do us part. We're going to die. We're going to die. Until death do us part. With this ring I thee wed. This ring and three passes at a cramped table. I went upstairs. My room was cold, dark. One of his shirts was still on the floor. Where I thrown it in my frantic search of his things. It was a sports shirt. He said he wouldn't need a sports shirt in San Francisco. I hung it up in the closet. The room was in order otherwise. There was water by my bed. And the sleeping pills. I emptied the bottle into my hand. And counted them. One. Two. Three. Four. Not enough. I said it loud. The words boomed in silence. It was silent. Not a sound. Not even a stirring of pookie in their cage. I looked toward the empty cage. Shattered her in the sun. Chill. There was a gas heater close by. I crossed over to it quickly. Kneeled down. Turned on the gas. Get a blanket. It's murder. Coffee. Murder. Kill her. I held the match. The heater watched it flare off warm and alive. I was beginning to enjoy my borrowed time. That was Harry. Suddenly the burst of panic I knew what unbothered meant. Dr. Rupert had given him the sound of Taliban in the world. The assurance I was going to commit suicide. He'd come to make sure I didn't change my mind. It was dark. He'd barely make out the shadowy bulk of him as he looked at the car I'd come in. Then he entered the house. Walking fast. Time to think. I had to think out what it all meant. But I couldn't think. The sound of his voice frightened me. All at once I felt terribly depressed. The boat was sinking. The sides were caving in. All I wanted was to get off. I slipped down the stairs outside. Through the rose garden to the tea house. The night was turning milky. Vision was lengthening by the moment. I couldn't see the surf directly below me. But I could hear it. I thought of Susie. And I leaned on the rail above the retaining wall. Then I heard his footsteps approaching through the rose garden through the morning mist. Good morning, Angel. I can't see you, but I know you're there. Don't come any closer. Is your hand on the rail, Angel? Are you poised and ready? Or are you hoping for a reprieve? Something I'll say that will turn despair into ecstasy. Don't come any closer, Harry. I mean it. I'll jump. And what's holding you back? A thread? A lingering hope? Do I love you? Yes. But I don't love you? Yes. So that's it. You know it is. You have a perfect alibi. Dr. Robert said I was a potential suicide. I know. If you push me off under the rocks below as you pushed Susie because you were through with her it'll be just as perfect a crime an obvious suicide. But Burkhard's wife spoke to you. Yes. She could have been lying. I know. And you called my hotel last night, didn't you?  You're lying, Harry. If you think so, why don't you jump? I will. I won't let you push me. I'm not going to push you. How do I know? You don't. The act and the proof are both one.   Isn't that so? Yes. You have to stand there and wait for the proof. Jump if you want to, but I assure you, the proof is worth the anguish. This is it. Irene Burkhard was lying or she wasn't lying. I killed Susie or I didn't. I want you or I don't want you. Total proof. Clear and sys and quick. Harry! If you come any closer, I'll jump. Darling, I've got to help you. That's all that matters. Everything I said was true. It's easily proved. This is all the proof of woman with war. I will. Mr. Robert Ryan and Ruth Warwick, you gave us the excellent performances we expected from an actress whose talent and versatility we've applauded many times before. And from an actor whose outstanding work in Crossfire has deservedly won him an Academy Award nomination. Next week for Suspense, we have selected the story of a successful young man whose gifts are many. He is handsome in youth, charming and intelligent. He is a poet of considerable ability and his fame is far-reaching. Beauty and comfort attend his everyday pattern of living. But over him reigns an element ominous and unseen. An element we call suspense. Next week then, the House by the River. Mr. Montgomery may currently be seen in the Universal International Production Ride the Pink Horse. He is seen in the RKO production Berlin Express. Ms. Warwick's current picture is 20th Century Fox's Daisy Canyon. Beyond Reason, an original story by Devry Freeman was edited and directed by Anton M. Leeder. But Glaskin is our musical director and conductor and Lucian Morrowek composes the original scores. Next week, here the House by the River on Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills, one hour of Suspense. He is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


the video. Two thousand everybody tune in. If you want to subscribe, smash that subscribe button, give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. It is July 18th and it's time for us to get to this bag. It's time baby. We went out there and went crazy. If we keep doing three eighties, there's not a lot of time we're going to grind. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Also, make sure you subscribe button, give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. There's a car tweaking right here, but we want to get to this bag. 27. We still thinking baby. I was there shopping that order and guess what? We got another order for you. So I'm about to go up here and pick up this order. I'm going to drop this off. My business partner is going to continue shopping that order. And this is only 1.9 miles away. So I should be able to get there, come back and she should be done right on time. So we can get on the ground to the end of time. Y'all will continue to see a shot baby. As we got took off the top for this order, it was supposed to be six items. Look at all this. They got a pocket. And it's only for 6.75. Hopefully we get a tip baby off the rich. They spent a lot of dough to get these food.  I'm kind of trying to rush a little bit because it took them a little while to give me the order. So because it was a lot of stuff. So I'm trying to hurry up and rush because I'm not trying to rush to get my business partner, but she's probably going to be done soon. So I'm trying to get there and get it done and get on the run and get us these funds. Y'all understand? I'm a cold like the thrill of Manila. Y'all understand? Just like that. We are here to drop out this order to get it in order. We have this John. We got these two big bags so we can get to this bag.  They need to get glad. They need to get that bag baby. You want to talk about grab this joint? Grab that joint. Like this. Let's go. Come to like the peace of man, baby. They ain't got that much room right here, man. Let me do that right quick. Get to this jam and we about to go ham and bake it.  When the doorbell just takes they want to come right here and get busy about the most kind of shift. Drop like it's hot. Drop like it's hot. I love these jewel alcohol bags. This is the big ones. When you come and pick up an order, they're great. Easy to grab. They're jumping Jones and get it on. They're bound. Last two things. We're going to put that over a little bit. Oh my goodness. Hello. How you doing, sir? How you doing? I'm doing great. I can't complain. And that is everything. I'm just You have a great day, sir. Yes, sir. You have a good one. Just like that. We are here to jump off this jewel ice cold order number one. This joint got a little way too good. We got to put the drinks in here and everything. I love this house. The setup and everything is very, very nice guys. And he got the black dough. Damn. Let's spray him. Order number three. They mad because we get this money with ease. Is the card. This target and Sam's got three orders. 17 hours, 9.2 miles for 73 82.   Let's go. We're in there and got that target order to get in order. But they're joining this. We got to put this in the back seat because that Sam's put order is probably going to be huge. It's a great chance. It's going to be extra large. We throwing these bullets like bread far. The tissue went in a bad band, but this isn't here. Bob off. We gone. Let's go. I'm busy, baby. They got good water, good pop things, good everything. We got six things of water. So let's put this in that box. I'm putting them back here. And then we could just put the pop. We're gonna put the popsicles in the, um, in our back, in the back ski. Let me get to the crib, ski, ski. About to get busy, see. They got big. Oh, they got that 40 bopper too. I ain't even see that. That's 40 bopper. And then I'm just going to start placing these in here. Tell them I'm in. Tell them I'm in. We are here to talk about this Sam's club order number one. I forgot we had three orders. I forgot about that target order in the back and tell us about the grab. This stuff, my partner was like, yeah, that's the target order. So put this right here, this right here. Oh, it's hand course to me, kind of customer. We're in that doorbell. Step back, give them a room. It's a very nice house. I like this. I ain't coming to the door. We're going to leave it. If you don't keep on moving, we're going to get into this money. I know it's going to be soon. It looks hot. I think I've got some eggs and that chicken. This target order to get in the order, you know what I'm talking about? Let's go get busy, baby. Got the little garden right here. They ain't playing no game. They just, ah, you know, with the doorbell, hopefully they come out here. If not, we've got to drop and keep on moving and go. I'm trying to hurry up and get to those ones with the popsicles, because I don't want them to know. How you doing, sir? Here you go. You're welcome. How you doing this morning? All right. That's great to hear. You have a great one, sir. We're here to jump up this last order to get in order. My business partner went in there to talk to them and find out everything. But they want to put everything at, um, sheesh. I'm just going to start stacking and flipping it. We're stacking and flipping it. We're stacking it. But they say, Alibar. So just put everything. Okay. How you doing this morning? Good. How are you? I'm doing great. I'm still living. I can't complain. And that is everything. You have a great rest of your day. This pin is one item, 3.2 miles, so 6.25. We here, baby. It's time for us to get busy. Let's go to get these pin. You know what I'm talking about? Let's see if they got us together. So we can get this cheddar. I see the bag up here. Hopefully it's our bag. So we can get this bag. Oh, I got to make sure that is our bag. I got to make sure you nothing else with it. Hello. How you doing, man? I have, I have an order for Ritza. It's this one, but I want to make sure it was nothing else in there. Oh, you're very nice. A lot of people just come in and just take it. You have a great day, man. We're here to drop this Denny's, baby. They said leave it at the door so we can go. It's time to go. Let's go. I said let's go two times, but it's all good, baby. We ain't complaining. We ain't telling nobody to keep on doing our thing. Hello. Here you go. You have a good one. We just survived. Two open delivery, 2.3 miles, 13 items, 411.50. R.I.P. Nipsey. Let's go. Oh, the number 6 is delivery. That if you don't like it, how am I living in the light? You can be in the boat. And let me know if you know about that. So to deliver that, we're going to Red Robins. The order is $134.89 and the money to pay the rent is going to be 6.1 miles. It's going to take 14 minutes to get in. And they're going to pay us $7.35 before the tip off the rip. Sound to no flip. Game over, baby. So we're going to, um, our business partner is at Jewel Osco. Right, let me get the car. See at Jewel Osco. See at Jewel Osco out there getting busy. I hope you guys are waiting, but move kind of shifted. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get prepared. Because I'm about to deliver that. You don't like it, how am I living in the light? We got to be at 11. It is now 10.40 shorty. So what we're going to do is, you all see, I got that polo. Now I got that polo. Y'all already know though. You about to get this dodo. So guess what else I got? Our business partner brought this out. I know the camera probably terrible right now, but she brought this out. This right here. Down these wrinkle release. How much release these wrinkles right now? So we're going to hit them with the, hit them with the rink. Let me hold it. Let me hold the camera right baby. See how I can see. You're going to hit that jaw. I put too much on that jaw. I'm an over-saturated. I'm on a pocket. I'm on a pocket. I'm going to shake that jaw off. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Then we're going to lean it, lean it right here. Lean it right here on this seat. That jaw is still a little wrinkly baby. I don't know. And it usually takes a few seconds. Guess what guys? I've never seen this before. My business partner put me on to it. I've never heard of it before. But that joint do work because I used it before. So you about to get this dough. We're here at Jewel Osco. Y'all know he's going to go. We do have to go to Red Robbers after this. So we're going to drop that order off, pull up to Red Robbers and keep on getting busy. I hope you guys are with me. We're about to move kind of swiftly. Make sure you ain't RFP nifty. Make sure you smash that subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. We're going to continue to get to this bag. Let's go. Okay, doggy, doggy. Don't, don't, I don't know, brah. Something like this, huh? Brr, brr. Let's go. We are here at Red Robbers. Y'all see the shirts, ski baby? Y'all see the polo? Y'all didn't want the polo? You already know though? Let me get this off of that. Put this right here. Put that joint on. About to go in here and get busy. About to move kind of shifted. What time is it? 10.56. We in the mix, baby. Hopefully they got everything together because sometimes they be taking a long time. Look at that boy. Look at him. I know. This ain't all black in my gun. The same color. Put this joint back on. Time for us to get it on. My name is Roman. I'm rocking on the microphone. Can you dig that? Like a shovel. I got that black and white on today, baby. This remind me when I used to go to high school. When I used to go to high school in North Chicago, we had that white uniform, but we had to wear the white shirt. So honestly, guys, I really don't like black and white that much. That's because of that. It just remind me so much of school and that uniform. Comment below and let me know if I'm killing them. Comment below and let me know. I know I'm doing it to them. Y'all ready? Let's go. Hopefully they got that order together so we can get an order. Can you dig that, baby? How you doing, sir? Yes, sir. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. How are your day going so far? I'm doing pretty good. How's yours? That sounds great. It's kind of hot out there, but we're still living. Yes, sir. You got me set up, huh? I got you set up. Be careful. There's some ranch in this top bag here, but I picked them up so that they won't... Thank you very much. You too. They got us righteous, baby. They got us righteous, baby. This door is terrible open. Put this right here for now. Grab this Joan, baby. Put this one box in here. Everybody been telling me that I have to get bigger bags and stuff. Eventually, we are going to get bigger bags. I don't even know if this... Maybe we need bigger bags now. I don't even know if they're going to fit in this Joan. It's looking ugly, guys. My business partner came up with an extraordinary move. Put it in there like a pizza, baby. That hot pizza. Y'all remember Martin on... And what was that? What was the blue streak? Blue streak, blue streak, blue streak. What y'all know about that? Got that right there? I think I'm putting this in the backseat.  Put that right there. Bam. Got that joint in there? Y'all see it? Just a bag of secure. Huh? Yeah. Guys, I forgot to get the signature. Moving too fast. Trying to get this cash. Excuse me, sir. Can you just sign this for me, please? Really fast? I forgot to get the signature. I hope you guys enjoy the content. I know, I know, I know. You see me with the different clothes on. Guess what happened? I forgot to record the outro for yesterday's video and I tweaked. I'm going to tell you what happened. So we do that. Deliver that if you don't like it. Let me get, let me get me. We do that on a cruise route so we do all that, right? So we drive into the place to drop off to deliver that order. We record it the whole time. We record while we're driving, right? Guess what? When we get there, I forget the cameras right there, right? So then I tell her, hey, give me the camera. So give me the camera. I put the camera on, right? I click the button and I turn it off instead of thinking I was turning it on like I normally do. But I get to a place I always hit the button on. So we did not get to deliver that. If you don't like it, we can get that order, man. I'm sorry about that. But we did make $200.97 enough money to pay the rent. And we got done in 1202. Y'all know what we do. We get busy. Y'all saw it. Y'all was with me. You know what I'm talking about? But I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Make sure you lock in tomorrow. It's going back down. We ain't playing around. Twitter is doing it. It's still bad season. We'll keep on giving them a reason. I'll see you guys on next one before we go. Y'all already know it's time to go. Y'all ready? Let's go. You guys on next one. We go on, we go on, we're going. You already know the DDK and I'm on my way.


So like they'll join like as we speak. Yeah, so we're broadcasting live now from Tucson, Arizona And we're just waiting for a few people to join And we've got five people six So we're in Tucson, Arizona at Arizona K-12 Center's tech camp and it's a beautiful day here hot But we're in the shade so Myron duek is About to give our opening keynote and so I brought him outside here just to give us a preview and to tell us about his book Myron. Hey everybody So Tony, do you ask me questions or just talk? Yeah, we'll tell a little bit about you. So we well, I'm Myron duek I'm a what are all my hats that I wear right now.  So it's super excited to be at the K-12 We have 125 teachers that are spending a week here at tech camp and you get to kick it off What's what's your main message for the teachers in the audience? In a nutshell my message today is let's open the portal to creativity Let's allow people to recognize it in the classroom and once recognizing it look at ways of assessing it because I find that one of the number one things that impedes teachers where they go on I own my goodness another creative venture is The the feeling they have of the inability to assess it That's why they go back to the old binder to the cookie cutter assignments that somebody passed on generation after generation And they just because they don't they feel helpless to assess these things. Yeah So that's the main message And yeah, and creativity brings a little bit of chaos. It brings a little bit of uncertainty It's it's not the way we've always done things But I'm going to try to make the case in here through a few examples that that is the direction Our world is heading in in Korea investigation all those things are going to be paramount So we got to get on board and this might be first step for some people or certainly a continuation for others Yeah, you're getting lots of hearts on Periscope people are liking what I'm saying So there are 18 people watching now and somebody Sherry says organized chaos is creativity with week three exclamation marks it is it is and you know it it's This is another message that I have for today It actually doesn't matter if you necessarily pull off the creative venture you're sending a message to your students by attempting it and That is as important a message as anything because I'm gonna show a boy in this presentation today Who's making an awful lot of money on a creative venture? He did beside school He would go to school go through the motions, etc.  That's actually pretty cool. It didn't go so well today, but the message is let's try something Yeah, so there's a question. Aren't you really hot in that outfit right now? Hot as in temperature It's in the shade. It's a dry heat, you know like the Miss Nomer here is and I want people to know this I think three days ago the Canadian the North American hotspot was British Columbia a little place called Where was it a Soyuz British Columbia North American hotspot, so no we are not knee-deep in snow in Canada right now it's very close to this temperature where I live and But not quite the humidity Hot no, I'm not too bad actually we're in the shade Tony pick the shade. It's kind of yeah Yeah, we stepped outside in a moment. We'll go inside so I can show them the cover of your book And sure they can they can see where you're about to take stage and I know what you guys are gonna ask I'm not periscoping this whole presentation Mostly because I don't want to hold my phone the whole time I want to take notes and I want to enjoy it But if can you tell us how they can find you online? What's your Twitter and where Twitter is at Myron Deweyck Myron Deweyck You can find me at Myron Deweyck.com. You can see a number of videos through ASCD either YouTube it YouTube grading smarter not harder you can go to my website and go click on the book and see links as well To where I talk about my kid brushing his teeth and other crazy stories and how they linked what we do in the classroom and Yeah, like I said a huge thank you to the people out there who've made grading smarter not harder an ASCD bestseller I am continually shocked at how well it's done. I just surprised they published it let alone people buying it Do you have plans for a follow-up? Yeah, I might have been working on that on the plane yesterday Writing a book is hard.  So yeah, yeah, they're seeing great books So some people who are tuned in have the book. Oh wonderful. You know, I tried writing it I tried writing it different than other educational books Not they got anything wrong with them But I wanted people to be able to pick this up and just hear kind of the straight goods from somebody who tried some things I want people to have a laugh a couple people have commented. It's one of the first education books. They found funny I can't present or write any other way. So Yeah, yeah, I'm like I said, it's exciting and yeah, they're they're likely to be another one But don't tell anyone. Do you talk about badges at all? There's a question in there about That's a no Ask the person what do they mean by badges? So I think they can they can stay here too, but kind of Gamifying the classroom and having classroom badges for burning achievements I myself haven't done a lot of that but but lots of games lots of competition type things that are fun I'm gonna show today and I write about it in the book Scavenger hunt that a chemistry teacher does at as a test review You know send out four kids one phone each like a camera go around the school and take a picture of every review term from our test Yeah, go try and find a picture of hypothesis, right? So these these teams go out around the school and they're taking pictures But you only get the points if nobody else has the same picture. So there's incredible competition. It's awesome I love that idea. Yeah, the kids come back laughing the teacher shows the things up on the board and it is fun the winning team gets the iced tea and and Maybe people realize on their way home that day. Yeah, I think we just did a test review, right? And that was way too much fun as something that Ben Arcuri is doing You'll find him on Twitter also Ben Arcuri. You'll see he's got all kinds of cool things He's doing in his chemistry classroom. So yeah, yeah, you know, it's just anyway I'm gonna blast people with examples today of things they can pull off creatively creatively in the classroom So if you guys are on Twitter our hashtag for tech camp is AZ K-12 and we know we're gonna have a lot of people live tweeting what Myron's about to tell us and there'll be some great links I'm gonna try to tweet in there, too So tune into the hashtag awesome now He's got a present to turn around and then say say hi and give Myron some hearts Thanks for taking time to talk so nice.  Hey, how's that working?  I mean I'm gonna do some Paris goes probably with Sarah And we're gonna talk about the professional development we do here for a week It's really unique and I think we're really on to something. It's our 10th year doing it Yeah, it is it is so well, so let's walk inside And I just want to open and then they can see that your your fans are waiting for you. Oh Air conditioning this feels a lot better. So it's grading smarter not harder And in case you want to know how to spell Myron's name there it is Feel free to take a screenshot. Oh You got even more fans the Twitter handle is just at and then his first and last name And if you go to my Twitter page, you'll see that I mentioned him in my last tweet All right, we'll see you guys later


Daily Tech news show is made possible by you, the listener. Thanks to all of you, including Chris Zaragoza, Jim Hart, Logan, Larson, Mikhail Soder, Devin Delaney and MZT 928. On this episode of DTNS, a supply chain attack against open source settles things. What happened to that U S TikTok ban? Turns out, still on. And why Microsoft is footing the bill for open AI to build the most expensive data center ever. This is the Daily Tech news for April 1, 2024 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt from deep in the heart of Texas. I'm Justin Robert Young and the show's producer, Roger Chang. Today, of course, is the 20th anniversary of the launch of Gmail. Happy 20th birthday Gmail April 1, 2004. I got my Gmail address today. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, those invites were a hot commodity. They were tough to get. They were tough to get one of the first big, you know, invite first traps on the internet. The Gmail invite economy. True. Listen, folks, it's April Fool's Day. There's some April Fool's content out there. Thankfully, not nearly as much as there used to be 10 years ago or so. So we're not going to cover any of the April Fool's jokes. If you had fun with them, that's great. We do not begrudge you, but this is just going to be a regular old show built on things that are, you know, as far as we can tell, mostly factual. Exactly. Yes. A factual show for good hearted people like you. Let's begin with the quick hits. After a complaint from Slack in July 2023, the EU began investigating Microsoft's bundling of teams into Office 365 and Microsoft 365. Microsoft just caved and said in August last year, we'll unbundle it for Europe and Switzerland and has now said, you know what? We'll just unbundle it for everybody. The whole world gets it. If you're a current Microsoft 365 subscriber, you can keep things as they are. If you've got teams and you're paying a certain price, that's not going to change. But you can change it. And if you're a new subscriber, you get the option of subscribing to Microsoft 365 or Teams or both. In other words, you could have just Teams without Microsoft 365. Teams will cost you $5.25 a month. The Office part will cost you $7.75 a month. Now, that's the simplest plan that we can describe in a short amount of words. There are dozens of other variants of Microsoft subscription offerings and enterprise versions and business versions. But the best comparison is that. And given that, you save about $0.50 if you don't choose Teams over what you were paying before, and you pay an extra $4.75 if you want to include Teams. SEMA4 notes that the last week, five of the seven podcasts promoted in Apple's Carousel in the Apple Podcasts app were participating in Apple's podcast subscriptions. Some podcast makers have told SEMA4 that Apple suggested participating in subscriptions in order to get into the Carousel, since Apple is prioritizing promoting shows that participate. It's like a chicken and egg thing, right? They want to promote the things that get them more money through the subscription. But they also say the subscriptions don't bring them that much more money, but they're still promoting things. I will also say that part of this is also specs, uploading the right specs for the art that's there. It is a very specific process. And I would take a wild guess that if you are in contact with them to do that kind of stuff, you're probably also uploading in the correct specs. So this is not a causation to correlation. We don't know. Yeah, we don't know. Let's go to something more simple, electric vehicles in China. Last week, Xiaomi opened orders for its Su7 electric vehicle, which is not an SUV, it's a sports car. Companies said it reached 88,898 orders within the first 24 hours, eight being a very lucky number. So I guess that's why they really emphasize that. Customers have said their shop times or ship times for the Su7 Max have lengthened almost seven months now. The Su7 has a minimum range of 435 miles, and the standard version costs $215,900 yuan, which is about $30,000 US, a little less. There's also a Max version, that's the one that has the long lead time on shipping, and a Founders version of the Xiaomi EV. AT&T has reset the customer service passwords for millions of its subscribers in the United States after records were posted online. The four digit pass codes could be used when calling customer service to make changes to an account. The codes were weakly encrypted, so easy to crack. AT&T says the data set appears to be from 2019 or earlier and includes 71.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders. There is no evidence of unauthorized access as of yet. It's not even so much that they were weakly encrypted, which they were.  So if you knew that from the rest of the data in the dump, you could start to figure stuff out. Finally, Google has agreed to destroy data collected when people used incognito mode in Chrome. Incognito mode did not track users for advertising purposes, but the browser did collect certain basic information in order to serve websites, things like IP addresses and load that gives you location, etc, etc. Google is rewriting its disclosures around incognito mode to reflect this. But in the meantime, it has agreed to destroy any of the data it collected before it made the disclosure. All right, this is a big news in the open source community. And it's some serious stuff. A widely used compression program called XZ Utils. It's a compression utility like like seven zip or G zip or something like that, but it's bundled into a lot of things. A lot of times it's used in installers. Almost all Linux and Unix style operating systems include it as an option because of that. It's used in loads of apps and it supports a legacy format called dot LZMA, which is used a lot still. So it was rather unsettling Friday when a Microsoft developer named Andres Freund announced that he had sort of stumbled across a back door that had been pushed into this open source utility. Now, that's the way open source is supposed to work. It's got all the eyes on it because everybody can see the code. And so you discover these vulnerabilities. But he almost didn't find it because he wasn't looking at it for security vulnerabilities. He was troubleshooting a remote login problem in Debian. And he found that it was using up more CPU than it should and generating some errors in a memory monitoring utility. And he decided to trace one of those people's like, you know, I got to figure this out. Why is it doing this? So he tracked the problem to some updates made to XZ Utils and found that there was malicious code in versions 5.6.09 and 5.6.1. The malicious code activated when the utility performed certain LZMA compression activities related to SSH encryption. So it wouldn't happen all the time, but in certain situations, it would. And when it did, it could give an attacker root privileges on the machine. So how common is something like this at this scale discovered? Give us give us like a one to 10. This is the first time anyone's seen anything like this. So an 11. Yeah, it doesn't mean it isn't been happening somewhere else and no one noticed. That's the kind of disturbing thing. It's it's what's called a supply chain attack. So that's where you insert the code upstream. Usually you hear about supply chain attacks where somebody got some code into the shipping version of a driver and then everybody goes and downloads the driver and they get the malicious code. This is kind of a version of that. It gets distributed through trusted channels. The detective work is on to find out how the malicious code got in without anyone noticing, but the earliest evidence is that in 2021, a user going by gt75, jiat75 replaced a function with a less secure variant and no one noticed. So maybe that was a test to see if he could get away with it. In 2022, that same user submitted a patch and started to harangue the one person maintaining xzutils with around five GitHub users who were also brand new to the project. So maybe they were all the same person. We don't know.  You need to add an additional developer to this project, which they did, which was gt75. In January 2023, gt75 made their first real commit to the project and began making widespread changes, including replacing the original maintainer of xzutils contact info with their own on a project that scans open source software for vulnerabilities and then requesting that that project disable a certain function so that it wouldn't detect some malicious changes that were subsequently made. In February this year, gt75 made the final updates that completed implementation of the back door and then began intense lobbying of Ubuntu, Red Hat and Debian to merge those changes into their updates. The code was not included in the GitHub version you compile yourself. So that was one way they hid it. If somebody was looking at GitHub for vulnerabilities, they wouldn't have found it. They were only putting it in what is called the tar ball that you deliver to make it easier to install this. And its structure seemed to target Debian and Red Hat specifically. In other words, those tar balls, the files you get in an automatic update would have had the malicious code, but not the source code. And they would have activated in Debian and Red Hat more often. The code was briefly available in Kali Linux and OpenSusa and also in development and beta versions of Red Hat and Debian. Justin, this is definitely something that's going to cause a lot of conversation on a lot of discussion boards about what do you do when there's just one person who's been maintaining a utility or a package that is really essential for a long time and that person gets tired and starts to be maybe a little vulnerable to some social engineering. It kind of makes you wonder whether or not we need like a Peace Corps for open source that you could have some element of, I mean, there's a lot of money floating around the internet. I think this is the cause that a lot of people can get behind. But if you are of a certain age and have a certain level, if you can learn some of the tools of the open source internet, if you are able to go in, we will make it worth your while so you can help maintain these codes because as you pointed out, this is something that was obviously open for the taking. This person, this malicious actor seems to have walked right in the front door and did what they ever wanted to do, whatever they wanted to do. And yet the consequences of something like this could have been massive. It might have been massive. And not easy to detect because as a couple people in the chat are noting, the tarball release being different than the GitHub release is not uncommon. A lot of times you're putting a little extra stuff to make it easy to install and you've been people want that. So it didn't immediately stand out that it was different. And this was a long con. It took a lot of effort. Like I'm not sure how replicable this was, but GT75 has apparently made some changes to other open source projects out there and those projects are now starting to review what happened. But I'm not saying that everybody could replicate this, especially now that it's gotten so much attention. But it really does open the conversation of what should be done about it to make sure that that doesn't happen again. It's been 18 days since the US House passed a bill that if it became law would force by dance to sell TikTok or force companies to box distribution of that app in the United States, but it has not passed the United States Senate, which it needs to do before it would go to the president to be signed into law. It passed fast in the House, but it obviously is not going nearly as fast in the Senate. Justin, you've gone back and forth about how fast you thought the Senate would act. Where are you now 18 days later? Well, the question has never been specifically whether or not it was going to get traction in the Senate. Nothing that explodes from the House, especially this House, which has not been able to agree on anything was going to be taken lightly. The question was, did it have enough juice behind it that there would be action taken before they went on the break that they are on now? The answer to that was no. Democrats, which effectively control this process, we've talked about on the show, they are going to be in control of this bill until it becomes a law, or they will essentially decide if it doesn't, considering the Democrats control the Senate. And there is a Democratic president who has said he'll sign the House law. So there's not a lot of pushback there. The big question now, and you're getting reporting out of the Senate on how they're looking to handle this is, number one, does the Senate want to change the language of the House bill? That seems more likely. But once you open up that door, now you have the multifaceted question of, well, exactly what do we want to change? And what you've seen is sort of the range of options when it comes to that, either extending the time that ByteDance would have to sell or expanding some of the provisions that would then affect other social media companies, or replacing it with Maria Cantwell's bill, which is something that she had put out and was deemed too broad, that would have greater leeway to restrict things amongst the Chamber or the Commerce Committee within the Senate. So what we know now is there still is push for this bill. The question is exactly what it's going to look like on the other end. And the key player here does appear to be Maria Cantwell. Now, how much of this do you think is the Senate saying, okay, fine, we'll do this, but we want to make it the Senate version, which is normal. And maybe that's Maria Cantwell going, well, you know, I had a pretty good bill. Let's look at my bill instead. And that could lead to bills falling apart, but it can also be reconciled and lead to things getting passed. It's how business is done. Is there any chance that some of this is the Senate dragging its feet and saying, we really don't want to deal with this in an election year? Let's drag this out as long as possible. Tom, there's a lot of a possibility that that's exactly what's happening because very often in the Senate, if you want a thing to die, you smother it with love.  I just need to make a couple of changes to fix it. I want it to be better. I want it to be better. And that's why I'm not voting for it because I need it to be better. All these other people, they're the real non supporters because they don't want to support my super better version of this bill. There's obviously a lot that's going on here. We are in a election year. We are in a log jam, not only between the house and the Senate, but also really amidst both the house and the Senate that are drawing thicker and thicker lines between them. And does, you know, does the Senate want this to be their signature thing that they did in the year of 2024 is to make TikTok divest. Now the other side of this is if you really want this to be effective and you want bite dance to divest from TikTok, or you want it gone, right? And there's the two sides of this. Do you need to craft a bill that you believe will withstand a legal challenge? And that's what you're starting to hear also on the Senate is that this is great. We want this end result. We don't want this to be something that just gets overturned and now we're back at square one anyway. Now, I don't know the legal side of this. I don't know how you would push it. And I think tying something to national security makes it more difficult to overturn, but you don't know. My suspicion is that the Cantwell bill kind of falls into the same area as the chip restrictions we're seeing, right? We don't need a bill for the president to determine that chips are essential to national security. And as such, he can put people on the entity list. He could put companies on the entity list and say, you cannot sell chips to Huawei. He can also say, you know what? The kinds of intellectual property that make it possible to make five nanometer chips and three nanometer chips, that is a security issue if it goes to foreign adversaries. So you're not allowed to sell equipment or intellectual property to companies inside of those countries, making things for those foreign adversaries, particularly China. So I could see the Cantwell bill saying, let's give the president the authority to do that with apps. And that would be able to survive constitutional challenge more robustly than just saying, we don't like bite dance, let's outlaw it, right? It also gives the president a whole lot more power because the president is able, both the past two presidents have teamed up. You may not hear him teaming up on much, but they teamed up to continue to restrict what kinds of technology can be sold to China and Chinese companies. And it would give them now that same power to whatever apps are made by those companies as well. So meanwhile, the other reality of this is we are in an election year and you're seeing a lot of people put a lot of money into advertising. TikTok has put a ton of money into advertising specifically in states where there are Democrats that again are going to control this process that are up for election, including Pennsylvania and Michigan, Nevada, Arizona. They spent a lot. There's a couple other groups that have spent on the other side, but here's where we are right now in terms of public opinion. CNBC All American Economic Survey found that 20% believe that TikTok should be banned. 27% think it should be banned if Bite Dance doesn't sell. 31% believe it should not be banned and 22% are undecided. But that means that nearly 50% of survey respondents, 47% essentially believe that the house bill is right, that either it should be banned or it should be banned if it doesn't divest. And that's what the house bill says. Yeah. And that's, that's not 50% but you don't have 50% say don't ban it either because you got 22% who are saying, is that an app? What is that again? Yeah. So yeah, seven months is a long time till the US election in November. So a lot of things could change. A lot of things can happen between now and then, but it feels like right now, if conditions remain unchanged by the future, we're not going to see any movement on this till after next year. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll see. We'll see. All right. Well, that's good news for the folks who like TikTok, isn't it? If you are a folk who like Apple, I have good news for you as well. Sarah Lane and Eileen Rivera have an amazing show called the Apple Vision Show. It's not just about the Apple Vision Pro.  I use this stuff for real in real life. How does it work? You're going to get a great conversation from them today.  So go check it out. That is Apple Vision Show. Get subscribed now. AppleVisionShow.com. The information is reporting that Microsoft and OpenAI are planning on constructing a data center that would include an AI supercomputer they call Stargate set to launch in 2028, just because it's really powerful, not because it will actually open a portal for you to transfer to another planet, at least not that. Cost is pegged around $100 billion, could reach up to $115 billion, according to the information's estimates. Microsoft's putting the bill for this thing because Microsoft runs data centers. They're the Azure folks, the cloud folks. Stargate would be phase five in a series of data centers that two companies are planning. So over the next six years, there would be other phases of this that may be a little less powerful, a little less expensive. For example, a less costly phase four system could launch in 2026. Apparently they're targeting Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin as the location for that phase four system. But anyway, this sounds like a lot of money. It sounds like shooting for the moon, calling it Project Stargate. Is it that, Justin, or is this the beginning of the new normal for AI? I believe it's the beginning of the new normal, but let's take a real quick trip back in time, shall we, Tom? Rumor is that this has been in the works for a little bit. If not specifically part of the partnership that Open AI has made with Microsoft has greatly benefited both sides. But imagine that your Microsoft CEO, Sacha Nadella, and all of a sudden, you see that big kerfuffle with Open AI's board a few months ago. And you know that you are already well on your way to building a $100 billion data center to be benefited by this company. That's the kind of stuff and context that you could imagine was wrapped around him, welcoming the new CEO of Open AI while also saying that they were hiring Sam Altman before they did the hokey pokey and turned it all around and got everything back to where they were. But the reality of this is if you believe, as I do, that AI is going to be a revolution in game changer and technology. And it is not just going to be a destination tool, the way that we think of it now, that you're building these various different things, but they will be woven into everything that we do much in the same way that Adobe has been on the leading edge of folding things in. And you're already seeing a lot of AI stuff that's happening on the back end of websites and services that you wouldn't have otherwise thought it. Then what we will need is compute, what we will absolutely be thirsty for. And we will very, very quickly hit our head on the top of the ceiling for is just straight out compute, processing power, especially if Microsoft and Open AI are going to be two of the biggest APIs that a lot of these systems are going to be built on. And if that's the reality, then that's the reason why you've seen Sam Altman go to some of these sovereign wealth funds and say, hey, I need $7 billion for chip forages. Because he is anticipating the need that right now what we think of as pumping out chips is going to be woefully inadequate a lot faster than we think. Yeah. And there is still a chip shortage. It's not for car chips so much anymore as it is for the Nvidia GPUs you use specifically to run AI. And that's part of wanting to have a system that you can rely on for several years that doesn't depend on an Nvidia bottleneck. It gives you another source of power that isn't putting all that power in one company's hands to the point that the information says that Open AI was saying, let's not even use Nvidia's cables. Let's just figure out how to use regular old ethernet cables so we don't have to buy anything from Nvidia. Yeah, yeah. Because they understand that this is going to be one of the stories of the next decade, in my opinion. One of the big ramifications of AI becoming more of a part of all of our lives is just going to be the reality of what it takes to make. And considering how fast we have seen this kind of stuff scale up, who knows what that's even going to look like? Who knows what the capacity? Here's what we know. It iterates fast. It's very intensive and it's extraordinarily popular. That is a perfect storm for we need more chips like yesterday. And there's going to be huge conversations about the responsibility of this. If it's using that much power, people already criticize cloud computing in a lot of ways for using power. And you see a lot of cloud computing companies bending over backwards to figure out power efficient ways to use renewable energy, to put data centers in the ocean so that you can take advantage of wave energy as well as ocean cooling to reduce efficiency. They're going to need to get really efficient because these things use a lot of power to the point, again, the information saying that they're considering like connecting the nuclear power plants to the data centers, which is going to start a whole other conversation, I'm sure, if that ended up being true. But there's going to be a conversation about do we need this bad enough to use this much energy? One of Sam Altman's big bets is fusion energy. That's a huge bet for him. And I think part of it is him seeing this that another element of it. You can have the chips, but you need the power. And if you need the power, then what are we looking at in our current capability to fill that kind of bill? And how can we think about innovating going forward? What is exciting is that on the other side of this is a lot of money and prosperity for the people that make it. So you would imagine that they will go as fast as possible. Yeah. It looks to me a little bit like a typical cycle. We had data centers that were there to provide enterprise level locations with the ability to communicate across locations. Then we had data centers for websites. Then we had data centers for cloud computing. To me, one perspective is this is just the next thing that data centers are good for. We keep figuring out how to use data centers for bigger and bigger things. We make them more powerful and more efficient as they go along because of that. Certainly so. And the only question is exactly how big is this 10x, 100x, 1000x from what we would look at in the past? And then there's always the chance that none of this works. There's always that. There's always plans. Alright, let's check out the mailbag real quick. Carl wrote in regarding that story we had last week about four Ontario area school boards suing multiple social network companies, including Snap and Meta for harm against teenagers saying they knew what they were doing when they created their apps in a way that would harm students. Carl wrote a thought on the Ontario school board suit. They may or may not be right, but they honestly think it's more of a political power play. The school board has gotten really hammered by some of its decisions. And the premier of Ontario doesn't seem to like them. So from either direction, and it's probably messy, this fight was going to happen there at some point. I expect similar suits to happen from a couple of the other provinces shortly, but from different parts of the government. Canada. Justin, could it possibly be political? Everything's politics. Everything. Everything. No, it's a really good point, Carl, and thanks for the on the ground insight. And thank you, Justin, Robert Young, for being with us. What else have you got going on this week to tell folks about?  But I want to go ahead and remind everybody, because I got an email about folks finding my panel show, We're Not Wrong, because I mentioned it here on DTNS on We're Not Wrong, myself, Jen Briney and Andrew Heaton discuss the issues of the day. I think you're going to enjoy it. Head on over there. We're not wrong. Wherever you get your podcast. Folks, a reminder that I've got a book underway called Sinked, Understand Technology, and Make It Work For You. You can find it by going to tomsnewbook.com, a URL I registered at Justin's suggestion many years ago, and it's come in very handy. We are 45% funded on this book, and I really, really want to get us to 50% this week. Thanks to everybody who's been patient with this. 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