The Independent National Electric Commission, INEC, has said that elections will not be holding in about 240 polling units across 28 states of the Federation during the February 25 and March 11 general elections. The polling units where elections will not hold are in Edo, Quarra, Rivers and Zafara states to 38 in Emu states, which has the highest. INEC Chairman Professor Mamoji Akubo disclosed these at a regular consultative meeting with leaders of the 18 registered political parties ahead of the elections, said the affected polling units has no registered voters. He said with the exclusion of the 240 polling units, elections will take place in about 176, 666 polling units across the country. At previous meetings, we also briefed you on our efforts to redistribute voters to the polling units in order to avoid the congestion that made voting cumbersome in many of them nationwide. This requires the redistribution of voters to new polling units in approximate locations. While they are separated by distance, this must be done after consultation with the voters. This has been done by our state offices nationwide. However, there are 240 polling units without registered voters spread across 28 states and the federal capital territory. They range from one polling unit to 12 polling units in each state and the FCT, except Taraba and Himo states with 34 and 38 polling units respectively. No new registrants choose the polling units and no voters indicated interest to transfer to them during the last continuous voter registration exercise, mainly for security reasons. This means that no elections will be held in these polling units. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


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And best of all, Quakerpup wheat and Quakerpup rice are offering you this complete Quaker model farm at no extra cost. It sends no money, bucks, tops, or coupons. There's nothing to write in for, there's no waiting. That's right, there's no delay, no waiting. We'll tell you how to get this complete new Quaker model farm just a little bit later in this program. Stand by for details. Snow fell softly through the darkness of the small settlement of Cree's crossing, piling a thick blanket on the roofs of the cabins, and blotting out the few remaining lights that shone through the small windows. Most of the town slept, and nobody saw the figures of three men as they stood near the office of the foster mining company. I remember, don't take any chances. There'd be at least two men guarding the place. They'd give any troubleshoot. Sure, Curly. Me and Jake will do this up just the way we did the other one. I still think we're crazy to do a job this close to our hideout. There'll be mounies buzzing around here like flies. Let them buzz. I'll never think we're staying near here. It's not logical. That's just what I mean. It's not logical. I think... Jake, you're not supposed to think you do what I tell you. And when we get the gold, we go back to the dog team and home by way of the ridge. They can't track us in there. The wind blows the trail as clean as a whistle. Yeah, Curly's right. We don't have to worry. This snow is thick enough to cover tracks right from here. You too, Renny? Sure. Come on then. Keep your guns handy. Inside the office of the foster mining company, two men fully armed were putting pouches of gold dust into a big iron safe. I'll be glad to keep this locked up. You can relax and have a smoke. Here's the last of it.  Don't touch that safe. Curly Smith. Oh, so you know me, huh? Oh! I don't take care of you. Why, you dirty... That takes care of him. Nice work, Pete. Now come on. Take all the gold you can carry and let's get out of here fast. Right, Renny. As Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police entered the office of Inspector Grayson two mornings later, a look of concern came over the inspector's face. Well, good morning, Sergeant. Morning, sir. I have to scout your message. King isn't with you. There's nothing wrong with him, is there? No, sir. I was already to start north when I received your message, so I left him in charge of the dog team. Well, I'm relieved to hear that. I consider that dog as valuable to the force as any man. Anything happened to him could be a real loss to us. I agree with you, sir.  Your orders are changed. Changed, sir? Well, I thought you said Curly Smith's gang took Preston's or anything else. It does, and this concerns them. There's been another big robbery and it's their work. They seem to have chosen a different territory this time, but you're going south instead of north, Sergeant. This job was done at Crease Crossing near Bear Valley. You're sure it was Curly Smith's gang, sir? Yes. Two guards were shot, one fatally. The other one recognized Curly Smith. They robbed the office of the Foster Mining Company. You know old Jim Foster, don't you? Yes, sir. I saw him a while back here in Dawson. He was all excited about his daughter bringing his grandson up to see him. They must be there now, and that's probably why Jim wasn't in the office himself. He spends most of his time there, usually. I'll get started right away, Inspector.  Well, do our best, sir. Well, long boy. Two days later, Sergeant Preston, with his big dog, King, beside him, knocked at the door of the large, sprawling cabin of Jim Foster. The old man himself opened the door. Good evening, Mr. Foster. Sergeant Preston, come in, come in.  You mind if King comes in? Certainly not. Bring him in. One moment. Hello there, King. You know, King is half the reason I wanted you.  Thanks. This is my young grandson, Jimmy. Oh? Jimmy, come here and shake hands with Sergeant Preston. He's the best, multi- and Yukon territory. Hello, Sergeant Preston. Hello, Jimmy. Grandpa told me all about you and King. He's a wonderful dog. Would you care if I petted him? Go right ahead, Jimmy. King likes children. King, shake hands with Jimmy. Oh, King, you're almost as high as my shoulder. My grandson you have there, Mr. Foster. Yes, I don't mind telling you he's the apple of my eye. His full name is Jim Foster Craig. I couldn't get down to Seattle this year, so my daughter bought him up to visit me. You know, I won't let a year go by without seeing him. Sit down, Sergeant. Thanks, Jim. Now, about this robbery? Listen, I'm offering $500 reward for the capture of those crits. What's wrong? Dora, what infundery is wrong with you? That dog. Take him out.  King, come here, boy. Here, fella. Jimmy, darling, I'm all right. Am I sure, Mom? Oh, King's a nice dog. We were just playing. Please, sir. Put that animal outside. No, Dora. Don't be silly. Put him out, I say. Well, of course. Come on, King. Outside, fella. Dora, I'm downright ashamed of you. I forgot all about you, silly fear of dogs. I thought you were old enough to have more sense. You're awesome. I won't have one near dinner. Oh, no. Especially these horrible wild animals here in the Yukon. But, King is gentle, Mom. Oh, you'd like... I'm sorry, Sergeant Preston. This isn't a very nice way for you to meet my daughter. Dora, this is Sergeant Preston. How do you do, Mrs. Craig? How do you do, Sergeant? I'm sorry, but I've always been deathly afraid of dogs. One bit me when I was little.  That was a playful pup trying to be friendly. You need just scratched your arm. You were too little to remember. Sometimes an experience like that makes a lasting impression. It may sound foolish to you, but I can't help it. King wouldn't hurt Jimmy. He likes children. I don't want Jimmy to go nearer a dog. Come on, Jimmy. It's your bedtime. Mom, can I just go to the dorms and say goodnight to King? Don't think I don't like him or something being put outside like that. Come to bed, Jimmy. Andy, you'd better go to bed too, Dora, because as soon as you go out, we're letting King back in. Very well. I'm tired anyway. Good night, Father. Good night, Sergeant Preston. Good night, Mrs. Craig. Good night. Good night, Sergeant. Please tell King how sorry I am. I'll do that soon. Good night. Now, you get King back in here, Sergeant. I swear I've never been so embarrassed. That's all right, Mr. Foster. Morning, King. Now, about that robbery, Mr. Foster. Well, they stole about $15,000 worth of gold. They didn't leave any tracks. I guess they should have covered them. But we know it was Curly Smith, because Hank recognized him just before he was shot, and said he was positive. The following day, Sergeant Preston began a systematic search for clues that might lead to Curly Smith's capture. He questioned every trapper and prospector on the trails leading away from the town. That afternoon, Jimmy, in hopes of seeing King again, had walked to the center of town and was standing in front of the trading post when he noticed a big dog hitched alone to a small sled. Jimmy walked toward it. Hello there, old fella. Golly.  Here, here's a piece of dried meat. Gosh, did you swallow it whole? I brought it for King. What, if you're that hungry, I better give the rest of it to you.  Yes, it's yours. I'll help you put those bundles on the sled. It must be fun to have a dog that pulls the sled. You've got dog? No, I wish I did. Is it fun to ride on the sled with him pulling it? You, you want ride? I take. Would you really? Will you let me ride on your sled? My village, long way from here. Dark comes soon. I could go part way with you and walk back. Then it wouldn't waste any time. That's good. You get on sled. Thanks. See, this is gonna be fun. Mush girl! Mush! Mush! The thrill of riding on the dog sled made Jimmy heedless of time. And he stayed on it even when the Indian boy turned off the main trail. They had ridden about three miles and darkness was beginning to creep over the valley when Little Fox stopped his dog. Oh, oh girl! Why are you stopping? Get, get dark. Snow come. Take long time you get down. I guess you're right. It is getting dark, isn't it? Thanks for the ride, Little Fox. You know how I get back? Oh, sure. I'll find my way home all right. It gets dark so stone up in this country and where. I forgot about that. In summer, stay light all night. I had lots of fun, Little Fox. Do you come to town very often? No. My village far from here. Well, thanks a lot for the ride. I hope I see you again. Me go now. Mush girl! Goodbye. As Little Fox disappeared in the falling snow, Jimmy turned homeward. It was hard to follow the trail in the fading light and the snow was smoothing out the tracks rapidly. 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They'll find him now, don't worry. Well, they won't find him. I know they won't. He's lying somewhere frozen to death. I know it. Now we're not giving up. We'll find him. And going out again, I just came back to get another landing. I thought he'd gone to your office this afternoon and would come home with you. Otherwise I'd have looked for him when it got dark. Now, honey, it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself for this. Now, stop worrying. Well, you're worrying. I can see it in your face. I wish Sergeant Preston would come back. He could help us. Where is he? He went out on the South Trail today trying to find someone who might have seen Curly Smith in his game. Oh, he cares about Curly Smith. I want my son. Hey, I told the boys to send Sergeant Preston here just as soon as he gets to town. Now, I'm going out again. If he comes, you tell him... And here's Preston now. Sergeant Preston, come in, come in. The boys told me about Jimmy, Mr. Foster. Yes, he's been going for hours, Sergeant. We have no idea where to look. I have some good news for you. A trapper came into town just before I did after you left the trading post. He saw Jimmy on the North Trail this afternoon riding a dog sled with an Indian boy. Riding a dog sled. But I've been on the North Trail looking for him, man. When I would dig Jarvis on his dog sled we must have gone at least five miles. He must have turned off the main trail somewhere. Oh, he's lost. You'll never find him. You won't be able to tell where he left the trail. I think we can, Mrs. Craig. Oh. Tell me something Jimmy's been wearing, a sweater or something. All right. Here's one of his flannel shirts, will this do? Very nicely. What's that for? This will give King a scent. Well, your dog might be able to follow this if Jimmy was on foot, but he was riding a dog sled. Can you pick up the scent of the boy and follow it to where Jimmy got onto the sled? From there, King will have to follow the scent of the dog. You mean that... that dog will be able to find my son? I hope so, Mrs. Craig. You see, dogs aren't just vicious animals at times they come in handy.  You'd better bring that extra lad in, Jim. We may need it. Sergeant, please bring him back. Oh, dear God. Please let them find him. Curly Smith would have been pleased to know that the hunt for him had been temporarily abandoned. But even without knowing it, he was relaxed and carefree. He sat at a poker game with Pete and Jake in their small cabin that was hidden securely in a pocket of steep rocky cliffs in the mountain. It's your deal, Pete. Maybe you can deal yourself four races and get some of your money back. I got plenty of time to get it back. Maybe by the time we leave here, you won't have any gold to carry out. Oh, seems so. Hey, how long are you planning for us to stay in this pigeonhole anyway, Curly? Until you get tired of looking for us. Maybe all winter. All winter? What's wrong with that? We got to play steak with food and supplies. Can you play poker? You'll be warm and you can eat. What more do you want? My fields if I was in a trap. Walled in with rocky cliffs. We're walled in, all right. Since we blasted the trail leading from the ridge, the only way in or out of here is through that narrow gap in the rocky wall. And nobody can find that, even if he's right on top of it. You found it, didn't you? I've fallen the tracks of a mountain goat. You know, I'll never forget hunting him. I thought he'd walk right through the cliff and close it up behind...  We don't want to hear that again. Hey. Did you hear something? I thought I did. Hey, it's somebody yelling. Get your guns out. Blow that light out, Jake. But it's somebody yelling for help. It may be a trick to get us out of here. I'll open the door easy. Stand to one side. It's a kid. Here we are, kid. Come on in. Oh, I fell down. I'll get him. I'd better light the lantern. Oh, wait a minute. I'll light the lantern.  See if any tracks beside the boys are there. Yeah, sure, Curly. Just a kid, Curly. There, boy. I'll sit down beside the stove and get warm. Hurry up with that light, Curly. It's a trick. No one his age would be out here alone. I'm bolting this door. I'll fix him a cup of hot soup. It was coming after me. It was getting closer. What was coming after you? A wolf. I heard it. A wolf? I ran. And then I got lost. You telling the truth? The truth. How did you get out here in the first place? I mean, how did you get to the place where you heard the wolf? An Indian boy gave me a ride on a sled. What do you think, Curly? There's an Indian village about five miles north of here. I was walking back to town. But then it got dark. When I heard the wolf, I... I remembered these rocks. I thought if I could climb up somewhere, he couldn't get me. Ah, that wolf was probably miles away. It sounded awful. It was so long before I got to the rocks. And then I couldn't find a place to climb. It was just like a wall. And then, all of a sudden, I fell into an opening. I crawled through it. And then I saw the light from under the crack of your door. All the rotten luck. See, I thought it was the best luck I ever had. Had you, Jake? What's your idea like on the other side? Nothing but the boys' tracks. Coming through that opening. He's telling the truth, then. Why shouldn't I tell the truth? Now, look, who are you? Somebody from Cree's Crossing? I'm Jimmy Craig. My grandpa lives in Cree's Crossing. His name is Foster. Jim Foster. Jim Foster. Why? Why are you all looking so funny? Well, uh, we, uh... Did your grandpa know where you were going today? No. I guess I should have told him. He and Mom will be awful worried. Could, could you take me home, do you think? Well, well, sure. Sure. Look, you better lay down over there in the corner and sleep for a while. You're all tired out. Yeah, yeah, kid. We'll wake you up and take you home later when you're rested enough to travel. But Mom and Grandpa... I guess I am pretty tired.  All right. For an hour, the men argued in low voices as Jimmy slept in the corner. Then Curly stood up. That's the way it's got to be. We cut the cards to see who does it. Well, I don't like it. Boy, that ain't... Maybe you'll be lucky, Jake. Don't start squawking until we cut the cards. Low man is it. Cut him, Jake. A king! Your next beat? Yeah. Four. Go on, Curly. You're it. It's a deuce. It's just as well. You two might have got cold feet at the last minute. After all, we got to stay in this cabin for a long time. We can't be bothered by having the kid around. I'll take him outside. In the meantime, the great dog King had followed the scent of the Indian's dog until he reached the place where Jimmy had left the sled to travel on foot. Their king recognized the boy's scent. He seemed to know just what he was supposed to do and led the way for Sergeant Peston and old Jim Foster. They reached a point where tall walls of rock seemed to block the trail. Their Foster grew skeptical. Good.  Jimmy wouldn't be walking along here. Surely he'd know this wasn't the way home when he got to these rocks. King knows what he's doing, then. Yeah. Cool, isn't he? Where is King? Why, uh... It's a crack in this cliff. He won't throw it. Come on. It opens into a clearing. How unfundly did he ever find it? Wait a minute, Jim. King, back here, boy. Jay, there's a cabin. Who'd think of building a cabin back here? It's a perfect hideout. It was just that moment that the door of the cabin opened and the Mountie and Jim Foster saw the outline of a man carrying something. The door shut, and then suddenly they heard the voice of Jimmy in the darkness. Hey, that's Jimmy, Sergeant. Get him, King! King raced toward the figures in the darkness. In a few seconds, he had covered the ground to the place where Curly held the struggling figure of Jimmy. One gem? Right. As the man raised his arm to strike, the big dog launched himself through the air and the man and beast rolled together in the snow. Get away! Help! Take Pete! Help! Get away! All right, King. Man boy, foster. Watch this, man. Someone's coming out of that cabin. I'll get them. All right, I get a good one. Curly, where are you? Oh, I got Pete. As the Mountie approached the cabin, Pete and Jake had stepped aside from the door and a burst of flame came from the darkness. As a bullet wine passed his head, Sergeant Preston's gun spoke quickly in response. The Mountie threw himself to the ground as another shot came from the corner of the shack. Jake lay slumped to the wall of the cabin, holding his shoulder, but Pete, protected by the corner, watched for the flame that would tell him where the Mountie was when he shot from the darkness. However, he didn't see the shadow that crept toward him from the other direction. Preston fired, and as Pete raised his gun to answer the shadow's spray. All right. Watch out my hand!  Jake! All right, King. Good boy, boy. I have his gun. Watch him, King. Foster, you and Jimmy all right? You're all right, Sergeant. I got a gun in this man's back, and if he makes a wrong move, I let him have it. I'd like to do it anyway. He's Curly Smith. He was going to kill me. Ash! You're under arrest, Curly. You and your friends. One of them has a bullet in his shoulder. I'll see what I can do for him, and we'll take you all back to town. Later that night, back at Jim Foster's cabin, Jimmy, too excited to sleep, sat beside the big stove, telling his mother what had happened. Sergeant Preston and Jimmy's grandfather listened to the boy's story, too. They thought I was asleep on the cot, but I was listening to them.  Then they were going to carry me somewhere and make it look as if I'd fallen. They said if you didn't find me soon, someone was liable to find their hideout looking for me. Oh, no. Why, those dirty yellow coyotes. Curly Smith was a dangerous man. That's why I yelled when Curly started to carry me out of the cabin. And then, Mom, just as Curly was going to hit me, King came jumping right at him and threw him to the ground. Oh, King. King, how can I ever thank you? Hey, Grandpa, look. Mom is hugging King. Mom is hugging a dog. I never thought I'd let you see this. I guess I forgot he was a dog. I guess King has changed my mind about it. Please, Sergeant, you and King are going to get that reward for catching Curly Smith. We're not allowed to accept money, Mr. Foster. Anyway, it really belongs to Jimmy. He was the one who found Curly Smith. No use giving him the money. Jimmy is going to get all of it anyway someday. I know a better reward for Jimmy than money. What's that, Sergeant? I know a man who has some very nice puppies for sale. Oh, Golly. Grandpa, Mom, this we could... Would you let me? Of course, dear. You're going to have the best pup we can buy. Oh, gee. I'm glad I got lost. It was worth it. Oh, Pop. Maybe you'll be like King. Yeah. If he is, Jimmy, you couldn't have a finer dog. King says thanks for the compliment. And I say thanks to King. The case is closed. Dog, dog, dog, dog, dog. In just a moment, Sergeant Preston will give you a preview of Wednesday's program. Hurry, hurry, hurry to your grocer. Your grocer now has special new model farm packages of Quaker Puff Tweet and Quaker Puff Wright. Remember, there are eight different new packages. And you get as many as six different exciting models of farm buildings, farm equipment, and farm animals on a single package. There's no waiting, no extra cost. Oh, shake a leg. Get in on the fun. Start building yourself a swell model farm today. Tomorrow, sure. Remember, 46 king detail scale models are yours now at your grocers. And they're yours at no extra cost. Yes, they're yours for the asking when you ask for delicious Quaker Puff Tweet and Quaker Puff Rice. These radio dramas, a feature of the challenge of the Yukon Incorporated, are created and produced by George W. Trendall, directed by Fred Flower Day, and edited by Fran Stryker. The part of Sergeant Preston is played by Paul Sutton. They are brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at the same time by Quaker Puff Tweet and Quaker Puff Rice, the breakfast cereal shot from guns. Listen Wednesday, when Sergeant Preston and Yukon King made the challenge of the Yukon in the adventure Tough Decision. It certainly was a tough decision. King and I were trailing a murderer by the name of Winslow. When we found him, my uniform was concealed by a Parker.  Yet I had to get rid of that Parker to save King's life. What would you have done under those conditions? Be sure to hear this exciting story Wednesday. Till then, this is Jay Michael, wishing you good bye, good luck, and good health from Quaker Puff Tweet.


Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. Welcome, Weirdos! I'm Darren Marlar and this is Retro Radio Sunday on Weird Darkness. Each week, I bring you a show from the Golden Age of Radio, but still in the genre of Weird Darkness. I'll have stories of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction. If you're new here, welcome to the show, and if you're already a member of this Weirdo family, please take a moment and invite someone else to listen. Recommending Weird Darkness to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show. And while you're listening, be sure to check out WeirdDarkness.com where you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Mines, Miwi and more, along with the Weird Darkness Weirdo's Facebook group. Coming up, it's an episode from Somebody Knows, a radio show not all that many folks are aware even existed, as it only produced eight episodes in the one summer that it ran. You see, in the summer of 1950, CBS had a problem. On Thursday nights, thousands of people were expecting to tune in to the radio sensation that left people on the edge of their seats each week. Suspense. As successful as suspense was, it ran from June 1942 through the end of September 1962, a full 20 years, the production still took a well-deserved vacation every summer. Something that continues even today on broadcast television, when network shows take a break and return each fall. The 1950 summer replacement for radio's suspense was based on the notion that actual crimes could be even more fascinating and thrilling as the fictional ones on suspense. The idea behind the show was that there are no perfect crimes, that someone, somewhere, could have the one missing clue that would help the police apprehend the killer in these often gruesome cases. To help entice that person to come forward, the producers even offered a reward of $5,000, an amount equal to well over $56,000 today, to whomever could come forward with the information that would solve the case of the week, creating an ingenious and rather complicated way to anonymously send the information to the show so that it could be sent to law enforcement agents and still maintain the listener's anonymity. Some of the most sensational cases of the time were dramatized in an informative and entertaining manner, at least entertaining enough to keep you glued to your radio until suspense came back in the fall. This episode of Somebody Knows aired August 3, 1950, and it tells the story of how on June 26, 1947, Mrs. Eubank's body was found at the Kansas City, Missouri City dump strangled to death. It's called the unsolved murder of Paula Kohler Eubanks.  Suspense, which is heard on Thursday nights at this hour, is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspense returns to the air four weeks from now on Thursday, August 31st. Ladies and gentlemen, a $5,000 reward will be offered each week on the program immediately following this announcement. You out there. You who think you've committed the perfect crime, the perfect murder, that there are no clues, no witnesses, that your identity is unknown. Listen. Somebody Knows. Yes, you wherever you may be, no matter where you're hiding. Somewhere, sometime, someone listening to this program is going to bring you to justice. Yes? Somebody Knows. The Columbia Broadcasting System presents Somebody Knows, a program conceived in the public interest dedicated to aiding the forces of law and order in the solution of this nation's unsolved crimes. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to recreate for you tonight all the known facts in an actual unsolved murder. Somewhere, someone among you's had contact with the killer or killers. Someone whose identity need never been known has seen evidence or possesses information that can lead to the solution of this crime. In the public interest, the Columbia Broadcasting System offers $5,000 reward for evidence or information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer in this unsolved murder. We ask you then to please listen carefully. For you may be the one to win this reward. Somebody Knows. It may be you. And now we open the files on one of this nation's unsolved murders. It's homicide file number A1-1947 of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department. The Unsolved Murder of Paula Kohler, U-Banks. It is approximately 10.15 in the morning, Thursday, June 26, 1947. Several men are walking along a corridor in Menorah Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. At what time was he admitted to the hospital, doctor? I would say it was at approximately 7.30, Mr. Kimbrel. He was in need of immediate medical attention, which we gave him. Then, because of the nature of his injuries, we felt the police should be notified. What about those injuries? Serious? Well, there are two deep lacerations on the right side of the head, and while we're not sure yet, a depressed skull fracture seems indicated. I see. Here's his room now. Just about five minutes, Mr. Kimbrel, his condition. I understand that. Mr. Mendoza. Mr. Mendoza. There are some men here who'd like to ask you a few questions. Men? Questions? Yes, Mr. Mendoza. I'm James Kimbrel, prosecutor of Jackson County. These men are Mr. Randall, my assistant, and Detective Skibbson in their life. Detective? What is it, you? Is it about follow-you banks? It is, Mr. Mendoza. Have any statement for us? I will tell you everything I know, Mr. Kimbrel. The statement of the injured man given on the morning of June 26, 1947 at Menorah Hospital, and later in more detail to Lieutenant Charles Welch at the Homicide Bureau in Kansas City, Missouri, contains in part the following information. My name is Hector Mendoza. I am 22 years of age, single, and live at the YMCA. I came to Kansas City about one month ago from Mexico City to obtain employment and learn the American way of tool designing. While staying at the YMCA, I had my meals at the Mayflower Grill, 403 and a half East 10th Street. While eating at this cafe, I became acquainted with a waitress named Paula Eubanks. I talked and joked with her on many occasions. On Wednesday, June 25, I asked her for a date. We made arrangements to meet each other about 8.30 PM. On Wednesday evening, June 25, 1947, Hector Mendoza has his first date with Paula Eubanks. They visit several cafes and taverns having a gay, pleasant evening, laughing, dancing, and joking. It's about 3.30 AM on the morning of Thursday, June 26, 1947 that they return to the Fairfield Hotel at 923 Home Street where Mrs. Eubanks has her apartment. Would you like to sit out here on the porch and talk for a while? You know I would, Paula, if it is not too late for you. Oh, no. Now everything's been so nice. Here. We can sit down here. Yes, this will be very nice. Oh, it's been such a wonderful night, Hector.  How could I be anything else when it was you with whom I was dancing?   Well, you know I mean them, Paula. As Paula Eubanks and Hector Mendoza sit on the front porch of the hotel talking, a heavy set man is walking south on Home Street. As he reaches a point opposite the hotel he turns in, moves up the steps and onto the porch. That is why you meant so much to me when you made me feel so much at home here in Kansas City.  All right, you two, get up. The man is standing beside them. The blue steel automatic in his hand is plainly visible. I said get up. Better do as he says.  Now, put your hands up. All right. I know you. You're new in town. Yes, I've been here about six months. Yeah. Look, my friend, why don't you... Stand still. Do as he tells you. Yeah. If you're gonna rob us, take what you want. Yeah. I know you, fella. What's your name? Hector Mendoza. Yeah. Ah! I know you, fella. What's your name? It is Hector... Hector Mendoza. Mendoza remains unconscious for several minutes. When he finally recovers, he staggers weakly to his feet. All you banks and the man are gone. Mendoza walks down the steps and out to the sidewalk. There, some distance south on Holmes Street, he sees them enter an old coupé. Then the car drives off. It is now 4.15 a.m., the morning of Thursday, June 26, 1947. An old coupé is heading east on Independence Avenue. Near the 6,000 block, it approaches an old abandoned city dump. Then it slows and turns abruptly into the driveway leading into the dump. It is now approximately 4.30 a.m., the morning of Thursday, June 26, 1947. In a one-room tin shack about 10 feet square located in the city dump, Clarence Bayless, former caretaker for the city, is sleeping. Then... What? What is it? What? Who's there? What are you doing at that door? Clarence Bayless raises himself up in bed. There's one window in the tin shack. It's about 2 feet square and located in the upper half of the door. Chest and shoulders of a heavy sat man can be seen dimly against the darkness through that window. I said, what are you doing there? Keep quiet if you know what's good for you. I got a gun. Gun? You heard me, a gun. Take a look at it through the glass. So keep quiet. What? What are you doing with the door? I'm locking you in. Okay. I remember what I said. Keep quiet or I'll be back for you. Clarence Bayless remains in bed quietly. Listening. Then after a while he hears the dim murmur of voices from somewhere outside the north side of the shack. The low apparently friendly conversation continues for a short while. Then... You don't kill me.  I was trying to see if you were still asleep. Clarence Bayless continues to listen from inside the tin shack. He hears a faint sound as though a scuffle is taking place somewhere. It seems to be coming from an old shed some five feet away from Bayless's shack. Lasts a short while and then stops. What is it? What do you want now? I just wanted to see if you were still there minding your own business. Yeah, I'm here. Then see if you could stay there. I still got that gun. See it? So stay there and keep on minding your business. It is now 4.45 a.m. The morning of Thursday, June 26, 1947. A truck is driving eastward along Independence Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. As the truck crosses the tracks of the Kansas City Terminal Railway and approaches the old abandoned city dump, two men suddenly run out from an all night fruit stand across the street. They begin waving frantically at the truck trying to flag it down. Hey, what's the big idea out there? You want to get killed or something? It's the idea jumping... The police! Something happened! Go to the police station down the street and tell them to... Police station? What's wrong? What happened? I don't know for sure, but there was a man and a woman. He's nuts or something. He's got a gun. I seen him leave but not her. She's disappeared and the noise they were making... Like that, huh? Maybe... Okay. Okay, I'll get the cops for you. In just a moment, we'll continue with homicide file number A1. 1-1947 of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department. The unsolved murder of Paula Kuller, you banks. and digitally remastered for superior sound quality. 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Remember, $5,000 will be paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her killer. It's approximately 4.50 a.m., the morning of Thursday, June 26, 1947. In response to the truck driver's message, officers Anderson and McCrary have arrived at the city dump from the Sheffield Station in Police Car 302. Clarence Bayless is leading them back to the shed where the events of the past half-hour had taken place. And by the time I got out, this guy was gone, driving away. Did you get the license number? No, like I say, he was already driving away, but I hear these funny noises in this shed next to mine. Here, here this one. They were inside. The noises came from here, too. Okay, we'll look around. Come on, let's see what we can do. Nothing in here but a lot of junk, Bayless. You sure they were inside here? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. That's where the noises came from. Well, there's nobody in here now. You're sure that lady didn't leave with her? Oh, I tell you, she didn't. I seen through my window. She must be around here somewhere. She must be. Okay, okay, we'll look around. For over ten minutes, officers Anderson and McCrary searched that junk and debris-filled shed. Their flashlights affording the only illumination. And then... Here, give me a hand with that. I think maybe. Here, give me a hand, yeah. They start pulling apart a pile of junk at one side of the shed. They removed several tin buckets, a large sheet of plywood, some eight feet square. Finally, an old automobile seat cushion. Hmm, looks like Bayless was right. The lady didn't leave this shed. At that same moment at police headquarters, two detectives are working the midnight to 8 a.m. homicide bureau shift. They're detectives Wayne Gibson and Isla Millan. Talk about your quiet nights. This was really driving by. Nothing much happening for a fact, but you never know. KGPE, Anderson, Car 302. Hello. KGPE, Car 302, KGPE. Dead woman, father dump at Independence Avenue in White. Dead woman, Independence Avenue in White. Well, a guy can't be right all the time. Let's go. Detectives Gibson and Miller leave immediately in cruiser number 22 and go to the scene of the crime. Their initial homicide report has given to chief of detectives Frank B. Collins contains the following information. On arrival at Independence Avenue in White, officers Anderson and McCrary, Car 302 directed this to an old shed which is located on what used to be a city dump. Lying on the floor, we found the victim. She was lying face down.  Lieutenant Welch was notified immediately. Also, the prosecutor's office. Within a few minutes after his notification, Lieutenant Charles Welch, head of homicide, arrived at the scene and was fully informed of the situation. What about the identification, Gibson? None made a jet, Lieutenant. Who's representing the coroner's office? Deputy Coroner Jack Gibbs. Yes, and as soon as you're through, Lieutenant, I'll send the body to the J.P. Shield funeral home. What about you, Kilvane? We're through with the picture. The lab man finished up, too. All right, then. She can be removed. The dispatcher is trying to get through to you, Lieutenant. He thinks he has something for you about this. Thanks, Miller. I'll take it in your cruiser. K-G-P-E, Lieutenant Welch. K-G-P-E. Lieutenant Welch, K-G-P-E. We received a call from the Fairfield Hotel at 923 Homes. The managers report some large spots of blood on the front porch. Also, a woman's raincoat and black pocketbook on one of the chairs. They belong to a Mrs. Paula Eubanks, one of their tenants. They've checked and say her room's empty, hasn't been slept in. All right, dispatcher. We'll check on it. At the Fairfield Hotel, the police talk to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Logeman, the managers. Then Mrs. Logeman is taken to the funeral home. She identifies the victim of the killing as Mrs. Paula Kohler Eubanks. Meanwhile, Dr. James Walker, the coroner, has made a preliminary medical examination. The findings? It would appear without thorough autopsy that Mrs. Eubanks died from strangulation. The bruises on the victim's hands, face and neck include those apparently inflicted by the killer while strangling her to stop her screams. It is also apparent that she was struck a number of times by blows from some blunt instrument, probably a pistol. There is no evidence of criminal assault. In Paula Eubanks' black leather purse left behind on the porch is a small book. It contains a number of names and addresses. Among those names is that of Hector Mendoza. With a call from the Menorah Hospital that he was admitted in an injured condition, Mendoza is questioned in his statement taken. In it, he gives the police a description of the man who struck him and walked away with Paula Eubanks. The general pickup is immediately broadcast.  When last seen was wearing dark double breasted suit, dark felt hat. KGPE, 1142. In an effort to find some possible motive for the crime and a possible clue to the killer's identity, the police make a thorough check of all Mrs. Eubanks' friends. A thorough investigation into her past life. Mrs. Margaret Dallas of 920 Holmes Street tells the police. I used to work at the Mayflower Grill with Polly. Her close friends always called her Polly. She was friendly, a nice girl, and she had lots of admirers. I can't think of any reason why anyone would want to kill her. Mrs. Anne Cramer of Overland Park, a sister of Polly Eubanks, had this to report. Polly was a wonderful girl.  She'd been divorced from her husband and remarried to him and then separated again, but she had a wonderful spirit. She was just crazy about Nancy. That's Nancy Kay, her little 20 month old adopted girl. Kept her in a nursery and I just don't know what's going to happen to Nancy Kay now. Then, a strange, non-usual development takes place in the case. Mrs. Dara Ann Morrell of 908 Jefferson Street, who'd worked as a waitress with Mrs. Eubanks at the Mayflower Grill some two months before, pays a visit to William H. Randall, assistant prosecutor of Jackson County. Polly called to me one day at the restaurant. She had a pad of restaurant order blanks in her hand. She wrote something on the back of one of those sheets and gave it to me. She told me to read them if anything ever happened to her. Here it is. Mrs. Morrell hands over the order blank. On the back of it, Polly Eubanks had written a number of Bible references. The references were Proverbs 8-12, Revelations 3-12, Matthew 11-14, Matthew 17-10-14, Mark 9-13. The prosecutor's office makes a careful study of the verses designated on the back of that order pad. Then, this statement is issued. The verses apparently were selected to be read in chronological order by listing. Since the 14th verse of the 17th chapter of Matthew ends, there came to him a certain man dealing down to him and saying, and the reference continues with Mark 9-13, which reads, But I say unto you that Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him. The name Elias is frequent in the verses, beginning with Matthew 11-14. In the 17th chapter of Matthew, the name Elias occurs three times, including the 12th verse. But I say unto you that Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall the Son of Man suffer of them. In the next verse, Matthew 17-13 continues, The disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. Whatever Mrs. Polly Eubanks may have had in mind when she wrote those biblical references is not apparent to us. Not yet. Now listen carefully, please. Listen all of you, wherever you may be. We're going to give you a recapitulation of all the pertinent facts in the unsolved murder of Paula Kohler Eubanks. Better make a note of them. And remember, by following the instructions we shall give you in a moment, you may be the one to earn a $5,000 reward. Now here are the actual facts in the case. Mrs. Paula Kohler Eubanks, 27 years of age, was strangled and beaten to death in an abandoned city dump at approximately 6100 Independence Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The time approximately 4.40 a.m. Thursday, June 26, 1947. Now here is a description of the man wanted for investigation in the murder as broadcast by the Kansas City, Missouri police department. Please listen carefully.  When last seen was wearing dark double-breasted suit, dark felt hat. Ladies and gentlemen, if any of you possesses information that may have a bearing on the unsolved murder of Paula Kohler Eubanks, and please don't send in guesses or hunches, but only actual, authentic information, follow these instructions so that your name and identity need never be made known unless you wish. Now please listen carefully. Write your information on a plain sheet of paper. Do not sign your name. Instead, sign it with six numbers, any arrangement of any six numbers. Then tear off a blank corner of that paper with a ragged edge. Write the same six numbers on that corner and keep it. Mail the rest of the paper with the information to somebody knows Hollywood, California. You need tell no one what you have done. Mail your letter to somebody knows Hollywood, California. And if the information you've supplied leads to the arrest and conviction of the killer of Paula Kohler Eubanks, we'll announce your signature number on this program. Then if you don't want your name to be known, go to your lawyer or your doctor, your priest, minister or rabbi, and have him present the torn corner of the paper to any CBS station. In this way you do not need to appear in person. If the torn corner matches the original paper containing the information, the $5,000 reward will be yours. Remember, you wherever you are, you whose name need never be known, may win a reward of $5,000. Next week at the same time we'll present another true case history of unsolved murder. It's homicide file number HF12342 from the records of the Boston, Massachusetts police department. The unsolved murder of Samuel I. Paris.  Listen, you cannot escape. There is no perfect crime. Remember, you are not unknown. Somebody Knows. Tonight's case was written by Sydney Marshall from information in the files of the Kansas City, Missouri police department. Research was by Maurice Zinn. Music was composed and played by Milton Charles. Somebody Knows is a James L. Safier production in association with CBS by arrangement with the Chicago Sun Times and is based on a copyright owned by W. L. Finstad. It was narrated and directed by Jack Johnstone. In order to be eligible for the reward, letters containing actual authentic information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer or killers of Paula Kohler Eubanks must be addressed to Somebody Knows, Hollywood, California and must be postmarked not later than midnight, August 23, 1950. Arrest of the guilty person or persons must occur within 90 days of that date and conviction must be within one year of tonight's broadcast. If more than one person gives the information leading to conviction our judges will divide the $5,000 reward among them in proportion to the importance the judges attach to the facts supplied and in this the decision of our judges will be final. Until next Thursday at the same time, this is Frank Goss saying good night and remember, Somebody Knows. 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good morning everybody here we are in the backyard again another day are you excited it's a little colder out today than the past few days i'm glad i got what christmas lights i wanted to get done done we have so many left over from the old house i could light up this whole tree there we could string up both of these trees there all i need is a really tall ladder or if i could borrow an elf or two from santa i could get it done i don't know maybe we'll put like a string of lights around on the fence so let's be honest and get this question out of the way right off the bat where's the truck well if you've been following me daily you know that right now manitoba is in lockdown because we are in critical red which means that we are the uh it pretty much means we're the hottest of the hot spots for covid in canada right now so there's a lot of people getting sick all over it's spreading really fast at the moment so they locked down everything it may be a little heavy handed to some people but i totally understand why they did it i'm just glad i'm not in charge of making these decisions because i don't know what's going on and i wouldn't know what to do so we're in lockdown for four weeks which doesn't sound as bad as it sounds we're not in prison i can still drive around i can still go places it's just limited occupancy and a lot of unnecessary or unessential businesses had to close and uh can't buy unessential non-essential items i know it's kind of it sounds kind of crazy but when you go to the hospital and you hear what they're dealing with over there okay they're trying to slow the spread right now and then they'll open back up once we get it back under control but back to the question where's the truck oh get him oh just about body slammed him get him there he comes get him they take it seriously when i say that guys don't get carried away i'm gonna have to step in there won't i no they're good they're good boys being boys all right boys come on hey hey hey hey hey hey hey diesel enough enough hey hey hey hey don't take it easy take it easy diesel i know what you're planning i know what you're planning i see your plans there it goes guys quiet quiet mom's still sleeping in the house over there don't want to wake her up the short answer is the lockdowns here in manitoba myself as a truck driver we're not in that same lockdown we are essential workers they are still trucking they are still working however we have a few uh circumstances at home that require me to be at home right now and are a little bit personal i've shared them a little bit with you guys but for the remainder of this lockdown i've decided to be at home uh that's for the next two and a half weeks i think it's two weeks from this thursday and that's the short the short answer is that it's just a lockdown the virus is spreading like wildfire here right now so they're just trying to get a handle on it and trying to uh bring the patient number down to the hospital so they don't uh continue to be overflowing short answer the long answer is a little bit more complicated you see i've been struggling with a few things personally uh related to being on the road the friends i do have i never get to see my family i never get to see my my parents are going to be retiring soon and as they're getting older as well i'm always gone i'm home for maybe what a couple of days a month maybe a little bit more than that usually and it's been weighing really heavy on my heart and uh the problem is that i really love what i do i really love my job i love trucking as you can tell you've probably been following me for a few few years and i want to keep trucking but i want to be home so i'm in a dilemma and this lockdown has really given me an opportunity to think things through clear my head determine what's important to me in life focus a little bit more spend time with my family with brett anyways she's the only one i'm allowed to spend time with right now but you know helping out my family bringing groceries to my mom and my cousin enjoying life what you might call a normal life where you're home every night so where's the truck all the truck is parked back at work but where am i where am i at maybe that's a better question i'm gonna be honest with you guys i want to be at home i want to be with my family and i want to be with my wife i want to start a family i want to have babies i want to have a little kid and it's very tough to do that being on the road so not only do i do i really want to have a family do i really want to have my own children i want to watch them grow up i want to be there for their first hockey game or their soccer game or their football game or whatever sport they decide to choose or whatever thing in life that is important to them i want their dad to be there for it do i want to keep trucking absolutely am i going to absolutely but you know i'm going through options in my head of how i can still do what i love trucking and making daily videos and also being present with my family now we haven't made any decisions yet we haven't decided anything yet right now we're just on the lockdown and we're gonna see how this lockdown goes we're gonna take these next two weeks to just figure things out short answer lockdown long answer i want to start trying to find ways where i can be home and lead a little bit more of a normal life so we can get a family going so i'm not too sure my truck might go to another driver i might have to go there and clean it out this week maybe i'll get a different truck when i go back uh that's more local more regional maybe a day cab i don't know what they have available for me diesel what happened what happened he's got an owie which one was it was it this one was it this one was it this one one of these can i can i just pick your paw up like that no some of that one so it's on his right front side oh yeah there it is there it is okay so so you guys can see this it's right in here oh there it is it's right in there i don't know if it's an ingrown hair or what but could have just been poked with a stick as well poor weasel we'll fix it we'll fix it we got a bucket we're gonna fix it with a bucket so this is hebitane soap that we've gotten from the doctor for a past injury that diesel had right an ingrown hair so he had an ingrown hair uh very similar to what he's got going on right now and the vet prescribed us this at that time so we're gonna use this again and soak his foot in this uh diluted in water right warm water warm water and hopefully that'll help him he doesn't seem to be in a lot of pain or anything he's just very curious what's your bucket for man he's bucket right here man okay so we're gonna set a little timer here for five minutes five minutes weasel you're gonna soak your paw for five minutes timer not five hours five five minutes okay so let's put your paw in the water this should be fun okay weasel here we go doctor dad on duty okay you know how this works right i'm just gonna move you a little bit like this okay just gonna lift this paw up this is the one right right be sure there it is that's the one okay okay put it down put it in the water you know maybe you better if you were standing can you stand up diesel up okay now come here hey come here diesel diesel no mom can't save you shabby can you stay there come come here it's okay up up come okay good boy put it down it's okay it's okay it's okay put it down and then lift up your other paw so that you have to diesel come on i'm doctor dad don't you trust me don't you trust me it's okay okay hold the bucket up to it okay there we go there we go we got it soaking five minutes five minutes let's do this you can do it weasel you can do it boys let it soak let it soak see it doesn't hurt does it nice and warm you're a good boy good boy man you're falling apart though you gotta stop doing this we're stepping on things so this will soak in and uh i don't know what it does it it'll soak in and i think it just prevents infection it just cleans out the wound as far as i know then we're gonna put on that cream that we got that time here ah then he's gotta wear his socks got wet sock again mom's got some fancy socks for you he wore these last time i think i've never actually worn them they are my favorite christmas socks but i don't think i've ever worn them he's only worn before in them less than a minute left buddy you're doing good you're doing good he hasn't stopped staring that way this whole time you're doing good almost done diesel hates anything medical he doesn't like having his foot soaked any creams applied any pills he just he hates it fights it now you're getting all of it get your foot soaked get the cream put on there and you get aware of fancy sock no it's impressed man hashtag not impressed stop stopping on things outside then look eight seconds okay buddy give mom your pocket all right there you go you're okay don't be a brat what are you doing to me can't lick the soap off good boy diesel i see a little tail wag back there i did so good i did so good right i don't even need to suck right i did so good well we'll let it dry and then we'll put the cream on and then the sock timmy's you're back open chevy chevy look tims is back open we were getting concerned they were shut down for like two days good things time back has an abundance of tim hortons for the population we have we have one over by canadian tire we got this one over here we got uh the one over at esso across from low and windows there well we got the timmy's and walmart but i can just get a a large coffee with one cream place large one cream yep that's all that'll be super duper word has not traveled far enough yet we'll get there we had this great idea i was gonna share it with you okay we're gonna share share it in a couple of vlogs coming up as well because we want to start a thing a drive-through thing to cheer people up put smiles on people's faces and maybe confuse a few people we want uh if you want to and you're going through a drive-through for a coffee doesn't matter if it's tim hortons starbucks dunkin donuts uh mcdonald's wherever you get your coffee you're going you get a coffee and you say super duper i want you to if you want to have someone film or film it and we want to include it in our vlogs i'll have more on that later okay i'll have more on that later so stay tuned i got my go-go juice the truck's got its own go-go juice we're good to go let's go for a cruise shall we got those tires humming may not be 18 wheels humming but we got four humming i'll take it i'll take what i can get how good are your eyes can you see bambi can you see her got pretty good camouflage she's looking at you looking at you looking at her she's there there's a deer oh oh oh i wanted oh there's another one there's another one i didn't see that one i only saw the one there's two of them there did you spot them before i did i spotted the one on the left first which one did you see first we are here welcome to our future home right now it's just a little getaway spot but one day there's going to be a magnificent house here you ready buddy you're ready you want to do some running you want to do some running give her butt not quite as crazy of an energetic exit as diesel would have done shevi's a little bit more cautious i didn't have the time to put the tarp on her this here good thing she's made for the outdoors but i don't i don't like i'm not gonna make a habit of this i don't like it really we need to put covers on those wheels too follow the tracks and you will find a shevi so a lot of people think that we're crazy to live in manitoba while i was born here so i don't really have a choice but maybe they think i'm crazy for loving manitoba so much i love it here this is home to me this is all i know as home it's a beautiful place and property values are really cheap compared to other places around the country believe me this setup that we have here with our little house in town and this piece of land out here this would never happen in most other places in canada because it would be far too expensive thank god we live in manitoba where no one else wants to live because it gets too cold which keeps the property values down great for buying not as great for selling but hey can't have everything if you want to make a lot of money off property you buy property and you have to be rich by the way if you're rich and you want to make money off land and property buying and selling you do that in the lower mainland of british columbia or like around the gta the toronto area because the property values there like a house like ours no joke the little house like ours right in toronto would probably be pushing close to a million dollars you asked me is that american or is that canadian doesn't matter both land and houses are expensive there vancouver's pretty expensive too just just about as expensive i think so many people live there but way out here it gets down to minus 60 here in the winter time with the wind show minus 50 i can't stand out here in the middle of winter this looks like winter to you no no no no no no no no no no this is not winter this is fall this is fall and this is why land is cheaper out here because nobody wants to live here because you literally will freeze your face off and if you're okay with that then you're a true manitoban come on come come on hey let's go home you did so good chevy you did so good such a good boy off we go another adventure done right back at home and brit's got the classics on his Walt Disney mickey mouse is christmas little classics this is what we grew up on it i think this was well before our time brit's nice and cozy on the couch there it's a lay on the couch and do nothing kind of saturday i think chevy had fun didn't you chevy chevy cleaning myself it's bath time yeah well it doesn't take long for the sun to go down feels like it's 10 o'clock at night it's five to six but my vlog's already at like half an hour and i cut out like half of it this would have been an hour long feature presentation from trucker josh if i had left it all in there i had so much more to share with you but we'll have to save some for tomorrow brit is very vulnerable to the specific virus and my grandpa's got covid more people we know i found out today more people close to us have gotten covid positive it's uh we're a very big hot spot right now and i'm very wary going out and then bringing stuff home to brit because she wouldn't do so well with it me if i got it i'm assuming i would probably be down for a couple of days you know heal up and be better i'm a young healthy guy other people around me aren't as fortunate as that so i have to be very careful all right and i'm taking this time to really reevaluate where i'm at in life and what i want for my future but thanks for joining we're gonna talk about this more throughout the next week or so tune in 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Thank you very much Paul. Heading into our last presentation today. I guess we've always been privileged to have Amiraeus over here to your third time down. Yep. Your third time. And we always very much enjoy what it's got to say. So without further ado, I'll hand over to Amiraeus. Thank you Paul. So this is my third coin scum. First time at Imperial College and this is very impressive. Very formal, this August institution of higher learning. It's a bit different. When I do coin scum, by this point in the evening I've usually had two beers. And there is no beer here. So you're going to get a slightly subdued version of the coin scum experience, but that's okay. I'm really very happy to be here back in London. As some of you may know, I graduated from UCL. Imperial was our major rival university, but props to Imperial too. And thank you to all the sponsors and organizers for making this happen. So what I wanted to talk about today is currency wars and Bitcoin's neutrality in the currency wars. You've probably heard me say for a while now that I believe that some of the first applications we would see in Bitcoin would relate to foreign remittances and cross-border applications such as import, export, and trade. Because these are areas where there is an amount of friction in the traditional financial system. So systems like Bitcoin, which are much more flexible, could provide opportunities, especially for underprivileged people around the world. Specifically immigrants doing foreign remittances where they're paying extravagant amounts to transmit through traditional channels like Western Union. Well, it turns out I was wrong. Not the first time. Not the last time. It's going to happen again. But let's see why I was wrong. This is where things get interesting. Bitcoin doesn't exist in a vacuum. Bitcoin is a currency and a system of payment that exists in a highly competitive world of international finance that accounts for trillions of dollars of payments every single year in 194 countries. While we're off in our little corner designing great applications for Bitcoin, something else happened, which I think will change the trajectory of adoption of Bitcoin, and we're going to see some very exciting times ahead. What has happened over the last two years is we're now seeing a fully-fledged global currency war that started in a small way just after the financial crisis in 2008, and it started gathering speed. That currency war is going to change the trajectory of Bitcoin. So something that happened outside Bitcoin is going to change how Bitcoin deploys. This currency war has billions of people as hostages being tossed around like pawns in a geopolitical game. Let me throw out some names of countries, and you'll see if you can see something in common. Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, India, Turkey, Pakistan, Ukraine. What do these countries have in common? Wonderful people and great food. But also currently embroiled in either domestic or international currency wars. The people in these countries are hostage in these currency wars. If you've been paying attention in the news recently, you will possibly know that just in the last five weeks, in India, with less than four hours' notice, the Prime Minister, Modi, announced that the two largest denominations of bills, the 500 rupee and the 1,000 rupee, would no longer be legal tender, and would cease to be legal tender in four hours. Thus removing 88% of cash in circulation in a country where more than 95% of all transactions happen in cash, where more than 60% of the population has no bank account, and where 25% of the population has no ID with which to open a bank account. In my opinion, this is going to be seen in the future as a natural disaster, which wasn't natural. Entirely man-made. A humanitarian disaster which is going to unfold over the next year and is going to have a very big impact in India. The immediate effect is probably going to be a loss of about two to four percent of the GDP of the country. But the ripple effect, as we've seen in entire industries in India, crawled to a halt because employers are unable to pay employees, because people are unable to buy food, because they're unable to pay for medical care and healthcare, because they're unable to transact in any way. It has been an absolute disaster in the short term and will be a continuing disaster in the long term. Make no mistake, this is an experiment that is being engaged on with 15% of humanity as experimental subjects. If this experiment is successful, not by the terms of how these people fare, but by the terms of whether the aims of government are achieved, this experiment will be repeated. It will be repeated in many countries, just like the experiment of bail-ins in Cyprus was exported to other countries. These experiments are accelerating. There is a global war on cash going on. We have reached that point in history where it is within the grasp, within the vision of world governments, to once and for all eradicate cash. Cash being the ultimate peer-to-peer, transparent, private form of money that allows individuals to transact locally within a community, is now being eradicated in favor of digital transactions on platforms that allow for surveillance, control, confiscation, and negative interest rates. All of these things will follow very closely once cash is no longer part of the picture. That is their hope. Hopefully you will join me in ruining that dream. But there is another currency war going on. This is an international currency war. This is where nation is pitted against nation using its flag money, its national currency, as a trade war instrument. In order to tip the trade balance and erode the national debt in countries that are suffering from enormous debt loads, they have no hope of ever paying back. If you are a government and you have debt measured in the billions or trillions of dollars, how do you best pay back that debt by increasing standards of living and productivity until you can grow yourself out of it? Or by confiscating the savings of retirees in the middle class, destroying a generation of workers, and having them pay through a shadow tax the debt through inflation? We know which side countries are choosing because we are seeing it play out again and again and again. Of course, that is not how they sell it. They don't say, our plan to exit the debt is to destroy pensioners and the middle class and create a system of shadow taxation and confiscation to bail out the banks and bail out the government debt. What they say instead is, this will eradicate black money, this will permanently end corruption, and we will win the war on crime. Everybody says, hey, that sounds like a great idea. Let's go for it. This promise is almost always wrapped in popular nationalism. The great scourge of the emerging 21st century is the resurgence of populist nationalism. Fascism is rising, and just like the politicians wrap themselves in the flag, they also create these associations with their national flag money to wrap their money in the veil of nationalism, to wrap the policies of wealth, destruction, and confiscation in the veil of nationalism. If you disagree with the idea that pensioners should pay for the national debt and bail out the banks, if you disagree with the idea that a whole generation of young people should find themselves permanently unemployed, or underemployed, or working in McJobs, then you are a traitor to the nationalist ideal of solving crime and black money and corruption. You probably have some corrupt money hidden, don't you? That is what motivates you. That is exactly the tone of discussion that is happening right now. In places like Turkey, where Erdogan announced that it was everybody's duty as a Turkish citizen to sell their dollars and buy lira and gold in order to prop up the nationalist pride. Where Modi in India used the same exact rationale to get everyone to suffer just a little bit, because the people suffering the most have no voice. They are invisible, especially in India. The middle class that suffers a bit can wrap itself in the flag and go for these nationalist ideals. In these currency wars, there is one force that stands neutral as a safe haven, as an exit strategy, as an opportunity for people to say, you know what?  I am going to opt out. And that is Bitcoin. Bitcoin is now standing at the precipice of becoming the safe haven asset for billions of people around the world who for the first time will have the opportunity to say, I see where you are going.  I see the exit sign. I am going to go this way and leave and opt out from these experiments. And that is going to dramatically change the trajectory of Bitcoin. It is going to change the technology of Bitcoin. It is going to change the economics of Bitcoin. Because foreign remittances are something a government can get behind. Yes, let's make it easier for our poor immigrants abroad to send money to this country wall, kind of competing with the banks to the degree we allow them through regulation. But this new proposition that some people are going to get to opt out from these crazy nationalist experiments, these currency wars, is not going to be taken lightly. Bitcoin is going to represent in many of these countries a direct affront to sovereignty. And when sovereigns see a direct challenge to their rule, to their decisions, as arbitrary, capricious, and unilateral they may be, as unconcerned with the consent of the government they may be, they will apply the full force that they have in order to fight that threat. They will fail, but it is not going to be easy. When these things start happening, the equilibrium between currencies changes. We have already started seeing this. If you want to buy Bitcoin in India today, be prepared to pay more than $1,000. The premium on Bitcoin has gone as high as a 22% premium on the price of Bitcoin in any other market. It can't easily be arbitraged away, because there isn't a big enough flow of Bitcoin into the country to counterbalance the mad scramble to the exits that is happening. The Chinese Yuan has devalued six times so far in 2016. Every time the Chinese Yuan devalued, Bitcoin's value went up by about a billion dollars, as millions of Chinese went for the exit. Every time this happens, a premium is paid. But here's the good news. Guess who earns that premium? Those who are willing to build an exit sign and a door, a little muddy road that leads out of this crazy experiment, get to earn a 20% premium. The exchanges, the local Bitcoin traders, the off-chain offline underground traders, those willing to take the risk to face the wrath of the sovereign, earn a premium. That premium goes directly to funding, infrastructure development, liquidity, stealthiness, decentralization, and all of the other things that might be necessary to allow normal people to get the hell out of the currency war. These experiments are going to position governments directly in opposition to Bitcoin, not because of something Bitcoin did, but because of something the governments have done themselves. When I was growing up, I really enjoyed computer games. My favorite computer games is a game called SimCity. Anybody played SimCity? Yeah, lots of people have played SimCity. One of the things about SimCity, which was really cool, is that you had full and unilateral control of the economy, right? And one of the dials you could tweak was the income tax. It was always tempting, right? Because you could just go in there, and if your budget wasn't quite balancing, and if things weren't quite going as well as you wanted in the game, and you couldn't build as fast as you wanted, and you could take the income tax from 5% to 6%, and you could take it from 6% to 7%. There were consequences, of course. One of the ways you learn those consequences is when you go too far.  Those kinds of games have a name. They're called God games.  Here's the other feature you could have in a game. You could build your entire city, and then you could launch a tornado, an earthquake, a massive fire, a tsunami, or even a Godzilla attack on your city. And guess what?  These currency wars are wars on populations. They are a form of civil war from the government against its own people. They destroy generations. It's estimated that already in the first few days in India, hundreds of people died because they couldn't access money for health treatments because they had to wait in line. Feeble, disabled, elderly, in line for six hours in order to withdraw $30 if they owned that much. Hundreds of people died in the first few days. Thousands of people will die just in the next few weeks as this experiment unfolds, and this repeats. Tens of thousands of people have died in Venezuela because of currency controls, because of the destruction of the monetary system. This is what happens when governments decide that the way to fight a trade war is to use the very fuel of the economy, the thing that people depend on in order to build a future for themselves as a weapon against another government. That weapon backfires and kills their own people.  Don't believe me? Look up what the Indian government has said just in the last two weeks about people who trade gold on the black market, terrorists, criminals, thugs. I'm just a coder. I'm just a talker. I'm not a terrorist. I'm not a thug. But if I have the opportunity to build an exit from this system, then I will take that opportunity because I know who the real terrorists are. There is no greater form of terrorism than creating war against your own people by disrupting the very lifeblood of an economy deliberately when there is no crisis, creating a natural disaster of enormous proportions simply to fight a currency war against another country. Who benefits in the end? The banks. They get bailed in. Their balance sheets in India are soaring. Their stock prices are soaring. The government enormous increases in revenue. And does that stop corruption? No. It's fueled an absolute orgy of corruption, which even in India is unprecedented just like it fueled an orgy of corruption in Cyprus and in Greece, Venezuela, Argentina, and the Ukraine. When Modi announced that the currency would not be legal tender in four hours, he also announced that the banks would be closed for two days in order to prevent people from initiating a run on the banks. When the banks opened two days later, miraculously, a significant proportion of the cash reserves they had were only in the bad notes. Somehow, some people had access to these vaults and swapped their money while the banks were closed in the billions of dollars. Somehow, if you've studied economics, one of the fascinating aspects of economics is Gresham's law. And Gresham's law states that bad money chases out good money in the economy. When I read this, when I was studying economics as a student, just as a hobby, I didn't really understand Gresham's law. And fortunately, I had never seen Gresham's law in action. We are watching Gresham's law play out exactly as predicted in action today. When an Indian person goes to an ATM, when a Venezuelan manages to get money, when a Zimbabwean gets hold of US dollars, what do they do with that money? Do they spend it? Hell no, they don't. They bury it. They put it under the mattress. They hide it. They save it. Because this is the good money. And it immediately exits the economy.  And they go to their employees and their dependents and their home workers and cleaners and the people who are unprivileged in the economy. And they say, this is the only money I'm going to pay you with. Here's six months of wages in advance. Take it or leave it or you're fired. Your choice. And they offload the bad money onto the people who then have to go and spend six hours in line to exchange this and to be asked questions about where they got this money by the evil tax official, the caricature of the government employee. And guess what they pay the government employees in for their bribes, the same bad money. So the bad money is the only money that's circulating and the good money has completely disappeared from the economy. We're watching Gresham's law in action. And when they get Bitcoin, they're going to huddle. They're going to bury that so deep to make sure that they have the good money saved for their children, for their future. And they're going to trade the bad money for Bitcoin. And nowadays, all money is bad money. That's where we're going. Cash is being eradicated around the world as a scourge. But they can't win that game because cash is something that we can create, electronic cash, self-sovereign cash, verifiable cash, digital cash, peer-to-peer cash, Bitcoin. Remember how this is going to change the trajectory of Bitcoin deployment over the next two years? It's going to be in direct opposition to this currency war. And it's going to be directly funded by the currency war. The currency wars are going to fund investments in infrastructure and improvements in Bitcoin in order to gradually take that small exit sign and the little ruttage road behind it.  It won't be available for everyone at first. It will be only the richest, the most educated, the privileged, the ones who have access to these applications. But somewhere in there, they're going to take some other people with them. And gradually they're going to fund the infrastructure that is going to allow more and more people to exit from these economies. So remember that as this happens, we're going to be called criminals for offering an exit. Then we're going to be called criminals for pointing at the exit. Then we're going to be called criminals for simply pointing out the fact that the economy is on fire and that there is an exit. And in each stage of escalation of the currency wars, every act you take in opposition to the observable fact that the entire economy is on fire, every chance you give people an opportunity to head for the exits, you will be the criminal. And before long, they will rewrite history.  They will say the Bitcoin started the fire. And at that point, you must all repeat and remember the slogan that will be important. We are not criminals. We're offering an exit for everybody. We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world was turning. Thank you.


Are Ulanzi products any good? The brand sells camera equipment at really affordable prices. In arranging of brands, you probably have something like Aperture on top, Godox in the middle, and Ulanzi below that. About three of these simple RGB cubes from Ulanzi last February, fast forward seven months, only one of them is still working. For the two broken ones, nothing happens when you flip them on. They were great when they lasted, but they didn't last very long. One out of three after seven months is a terrible failure rate and I won't be wasting my money on Ulanzi in the future.


AMC is doing the unthinkable. They're teaming up with streaming services. That's right, people they once thought were enemies are, now I guess, bedfellows. For enemies is maybe more apt. But before AMC courts an Apple or a Hulu or whatever they're going after to have some sort of day-in-date streaming theater release, they have a secret weapon in mind to keep pulling people to the theater. And that weapon? Nicole Kidman. That's right. Everybody's favorite theater commercial that you see while you're sitting in the theater with Nicole Kidman is getting a sequel. This is the maverick of movie trailers for the movie itself. This is the end game to Avengers Infinity War. We are talking high stakes. What's Nicole Kidman going to do this time? Maybe she saunters in? A little bit more upbeat? Last time she was almost depressed. A little deflated. Walking through puddles. It was rainy. She was all alone in that theater. Maybe she brings the gals out tonight. Oh yes, it's late is night when it feels so right at AMC. I don't know. I could see maybe a Wanda Sykes in there. Maybe we get a Melissa McCarthy with her. The sky's the limit. All I know is AMC has themselves one good old fashioned strong female lead. And for movie theaters it's about time. Truthfully speaking I find that commercial to be hell on earth. I don't understand what we're doing here. You are showing an ad for the thing that you're currently in. It's just odd to me. But I guess when you go into a car dealership you do see ads for cars at the dealership. But that's because you haven't bought the car yet. When you're in the theater you already purchased the ticket and you're sitting in said theater. Where's Nicole Kidman though? Is she in the back? Because otherwise that's false advertising. I want Kidman in every theater I go in. How do I melt this out even longer? This is such a non-story.  No. You must be out of your mind. Actually Reese Witherspoon is America's sweetheart. She or Sandra Bullock could really pull the numbers. If anything we should have all-out warfare between these theater chains. I want a Sandra Bullock ad. I want a Reese Witherspoon ad.  This could be like a theater cinematic universe. It would be wild stuff. It'd be Olivia Wilde stuff. Let's get Olivia Wilde in one of those. Actually I don't know if people like her or not. Let's see if we can paint a picture for this new Nicole Kidman. Here's the pitch right now. You ready for it? The scene opens a fade up from black. We are on a Hollywood movie set. Camera does a slow zoom through a door that opens by a worker who's walking in. We go over the worker's shoulder. This is a one take. We keep going down. Camera looks up briefly at the rafters above. There's people moving sandbags around. I don't know if that's the thing they do in the theater, in like the movie department or whatever. Goes back down. We are on a movie set, keep in mind. Camera is whizzing around like a snack table. There's actors there talking. Maybe George Clooney's in the mix or Robert Downey Jr. They're basically retired. They'll probably do it for pretty cheap at this point or just for, you know, just for fun. Just for fun. Camera goes by them. They don't even acknowledge the camera. They're just having like a conversation with each other. We then pull up to Nicole Kidman as she's getting brushed in between takes. She turns and looks at us directly and starts to interact. When I'm done on a movie, I can't do her. She has like a weird British slash American accent. I don't know what's happening with her voice, but when I get off the movie set, the first thing I do is I go to the local AMC and watch myself on the big screen. She then starts walking and we go with her on this journey. She gets in the car. This is going to be a one hour and 45 minute tour day force trailer for AMC. That's going to be before every single movie you see. Hell yeah. We're in the car with her on the way there. She's attacked by drones. Car flips. Kidman's pissed, but you can't tell. She keeps her composure. She goes out the window. Glass shatters. The reflections of the glass of the windshield show the different physique of hers as she pulls out double guns. Taylor Swift's song Are You Ready For It comes on. She drops down.  There's a little bit of a reflection on a puddle. It's the same puddle shot they used from the first AMC ad. It's a callback. All good movies do this. She starts taking off in a full bore sprint. Goes down on her knees. She starts taking out the drones. Spins around. Takes out some more drones. Drops the guns.  There's agents all around her. Why? Because they're from different competing theater chains. You're with me still? I'm barely with myself. But you know where I am? I'm at the movies with Kidman. After she goes on a blood bath, John Wick-esque killing spree, she walks into the theater. Dresses tattered up. She's got cuts and blood and scrapes all over.  And she relaxes. And then she winks at the camera and the movie starts. And there she is in the action scene that we just witnessed. It was actually all part of the movie the whole time. Yes! This is the movie. This is everything. And it's just a teaser for AMC. It's a trailer for AMC. And then we watched Guardians of the Galaxy 3, which is two hours and 27 minutes long. It's perfect. You're there for five hours. It's a nice deal. So long story short, AMC wants to do another commercial with Nicole Kidman. Yeah. Thanks for watching. Subscribe.