It gives me great pleasure to introduce Simon Commander, who is the managing partner of Alcheora, partners, which provides strategic economic policy advice to decision makers in government and companies. He's a visiting professor of economics at the IE Business School in Madrid, and he's a senior adviser to both the European Bank for Portrait and Development and the World a as help faculty positions at both the London Business School and Cambridge University, and he's going to talk to us about the future of Asian capitalism. Simon, thank you very much. Thank you. Can everyone here? Perfect. Well, okay, so if that is not the case, just put your hand up. So I'm not going to do a PowerPoint today. I'm not a great fan of them, but if any of you gyda chi'n gwybod y parwyr rai oedd y gweithio'r cyfnod yw'r wybodaeth i fyfyddo, ond rwy'n dechrau'r Adrien, ond rydyn ni'n fydd yn bwytau ychydig ar y cyfnod.  Ac mae'n waith i'n bwysig, rwy'n dechrau, yn Llywodraeth, sy'n bwysig yn Bwysig. Felly mae'n cyfnod o'n ymddangos ymddangos cyfnod a'r gweithio'n gyfnodol, ond y byddwch yn ymddangos, yma, wrth gwrs, mae Asia yn ddiffunct i'r cyffredinol, ddifunio'r cyfnodol, ymdannigau, ymdannigau, ymdannigau, ymdannigau, o'r ddim yn gweithio'n gweithio'n cyffredinol. Mae'n gweithio'r gweithio i'r cyfan ymddangos cyfnodol, But there are some very, very important commonalities, common features, that these common features are going to tell us, be informative about, do things? One, why it is that Asia has been the great success story of modern times and secondly why we shouldn't assume that Asia is going to be the success story of the future decades, i.g. o'r 21st century. Rydyn ni'nichi'n cael ei wneud y ddynas dysgigol o arddangos hynny, a'r hynny'n meddwl am gyda'r ddynas dysgol. Rydyn ni'n edrych yn ddegos iawn nhw'n newid maen nhw'n ei wneud i gael eu bod fynd arall. Pwy ffordd, y gallwn i'n meddwl am 20 gynnwys a ddyn nhw'n neud o gweithfyrdd, Adrian. Felly rydyn ni'n meddwl am yw'r ysgolwch yn y ffordd. Felly, rydyn ni'n wedi bwysig fel y gwel sy'n wneud y rwyntfodol of a book that I and my colleague and friends saw Lestrin publish recently, and it's called The Connections World. It's published by Cambridge University Press, and your libraries may want to have a copy or whatever. You can find it online as electronic versions as well. And in the book, we basically ask the question, why has Asia been a success? What have been the mechanisms that allowed it to be so important? And will these persist in the future? Now, just to put it in context, I mean, maybe it's already been said, but Asia accounts, depending on how you count it, for roughly 45 to 50% of the world economy. So that's a pretty big chunk. And it accounts for over 60% of the world's population. So whether you like it or not, or whether you're interested in Asia or not, you probably ought to be, because what happens there is going to determine not just how Asians, and here I'm speaking basically from Pakistan in the West to Japan and Korea over in the East and China, not just how they fare, but how the global economy fares. And just to put this in context, and here, by the way, for those of you who want to find out more, you can go to the IMF website. They publish regular updates. Their projections are normally wrong, but they're intelligently wrong, shall we say? And because projections about growth and the like are very, very hard to do with accuracy. But put it this way, if you go to the IMF site, what you will find is that since 2007, 2008, which as you must know, was the great financial crisis which afflicted this country and most of the rich world, particularly severely, really most growth in the world economy has been driven by Asia. And even today, as China slows down in part due to its policies vis-à-vis COVID, the lockdowns and the like, in part due to geopolitical tensions with the US and other countries, as China slows down last year growing really 2%, 3%, maybe this year 4%, 5%. Even so, Asia is going to contribute roughly 70% of global growth in 2023 and 2024. So that's a big number, is it not? Now, some people will say, quite rightly, well, that's not surprising. Why? From the perspective of an economist, you can think of economies at different levels of income. So let us say the UK is an economy with an income level of 100, just hypothetically. And we look at China and we would say that, and this is roughly right in relative terms, China is at an income level per capita of about 3035. So in other words, is an awful lot smaller than the UK or much of Europe or indeed North America. Now, it's a well-known feature of economies that when you're poor, you can grow and do grow much more than when you're rich. So what economists commonly say is the equilibrium rate of growth for an economy like the UK or the US is normally not much more than two, two and a half max 3% per year. What's the equilibrium rate of growth in a country like India or China? Well, significantly higher most likely than five, even more. And if we look back over the last 30 years or the like, then China itself has grown by roughly 10% per annum for the greater number of years and a country like India is presently growing at about 6% or 7% per year. And it's growing without fueling inflation, without fueling overheating of the economy. Okay, so that's the context and that's why in some sense we ought to be interested. Now, let's pick up on a couple of things that are really quite different about Asia when thinking about why it's been successful. Now, if we think of this country or the US or the like, we think of government as a regulator and politicians and we also think of companies. And most companies essentially do one or two things and try and do it well and profitably. They're not very diversified and they're very good reasons for why they're not diversified. And for what it's worth their stock market value reflects whether they're diversified or not. In fact, if you're very diversified form of company, the value of your stocks tends to be lower than if you're more focused. Now, in Asia is quite different in two important ways. The first, let's start with business. The really important businesses, the businesses that have been driving many of these economies are either in state-owned hands. Those are decreasing in number but some are still important. Or more importantly, there are business groups. And these business groups are owned by families, for the most part, often dynastic. Just to give you some examples for those of you who know a little bit about Asia, you have the Tata Group in India or Billers in India. You have a whole range of family-owned business groups in Indonesia, Malaysia and the like. So the family-owned business group is very important. And the feature about these groups is that they do lots of things. They work in many sectors. They can do airports. They can do infrastructure. They can do ports. They can do mining. They do a hell of a lot of things. And this, at least to most economists, is a bit odd. The second feature about Asia that is really quite different from, say, this country, perhaps a bit less from the States, is how closely connected these business groups are to politicians and to politics. In fact, in the book we show both in a network analysis and also in a variety of other ways that the connections are absolutely central to these systems. And what do they mean? What do they deliver? Well, the politicians get contributions. They sometimes get jobs, jobs for themselves or their family or their constituencies. And the businesses get access to sectors, permits, licences and the like. Also access to public contracts and so on. So this relationship that ties up businesses and politicians is immensely important in Asia. And it cuts across all these countries, irrespective of whether they say they're capitalist or socialist or whatsoever. And in point of fact, in China and Vietnam, which are the two one-party States that we deal with in the book, the relationship between politics and business is particularly tight. But we also argue that it's very, very tight in the other countries, despite having democratic or at least contestable political systems. Now, why is this important? Well, it tells you on the good side that these connections can do very well with creating big projects, infrastructure and other projects, coordinating between the public sector, the government and the private sector to achieve strategic goals. This is not just about China, it's right through the region. And that's the good side. And this is what economists call, as it were, the intersections of industrial policy and the market. And the mechanism that achieves that is the coordination that arises because of these close connections. Now, the less good side, of course, which will be probably obvious to many of you, is that these sorts of cosy relationships can often be very corrupt relationships and sometimes highly inefficient relationships, both at the level of the business groups and at the level of the economy. And in the book, we argue that those good things, which have been important in driving all this growth and development, stand to be in the way of Asia's future unless some changes are made. And why is that? Well, the first, and this will be no surprise to most of you who study economics or have had some engagement in some way with the subject, the first is because this sets of relationships, these networks, stand in the way of competition. Far too often, large and important bits, large value-added bits of the economy, are dominated by business groups whose connections to politicians are, in a sense, their trump card. And let me just give you a sense of this. Now, one measure of this is known as concentration, and there's a thing called the concentration ratio. And one measure of that is the revenues of, say, the top five or 10 companies in a country relative to the national income or GDP of that country, all right? So that's known as the country, CR5 if it's five companies, CR10 if it's 10 companies. Well, in South Korea, which is an enormous success and an impressive place in more senses than not, but also in Vietnam and in Thailand, a few other countries. The top 10 companies, most of which are either state-owned or these private business groups, account for more than 40% of GDP, their combined revenues account for more than 40%. To put that in context, if I do the same exercise for the US, the top 10 companies in the US, and you can imagine what some of those are, might be Amazon, might be Google and whatever, their share of GDP is not more than two or three percent. And the only country that is a bit higher than that in Western Europe would be Germany. So these countries are very different, and even India and China, which are really enormous economies, the top 10 companies account in both places for roughly 15% of national income or GDP and on a rising trend, particularly strongly in India. So to cut to the quick, business groups and their cozy connections to politics may drive a lot of good things, but they also deliver outsized benefits to those groups and close others out, so competition. And this means that Asia is still characterised by what economists call a dual economy. There is the formal sector in which the business groups and other leading companies operate, and this is actually quite a small part of the total economy in many cases, at least in employment terms, but not in GDP terms. And then there's a huge chunk of the economy in which most Asians of one sort of the other find employment, by and large the informal economy, where jobs are low productivity and therefore low wage. So this duality persists, and it persists in part because of this structure. The second and very significant point that I want to make is that these agglomerations of economic influence and power also are great drivers of inequality. Partly on wages, this is what's known as earnings inequality, so if you have a job in one of the business groups, you probably get paid well, you're high up the pecking order, but the majority of people who have jobs in the informal economy get lousy wages and the gap between the two is very large, so earnings inequality is substantial. But there's an even bigger point. This system is very driven towards wealth inequality increases, the extraordinary magnitudes. The wealth controlled by really very few people is a very high share of total wealth in all these economies. Now you couldn't say, well, isn't that true in Western Europe and in the UK? Well, to some extent that is true, but I think it's even more striking in nature. And in part it's also striking because so much of it is recent. In 2000, i.e. 23 years ago, China did not have a single billionaire, supposedly. Maybe some measurement error there, but gross emoto, there wasn't a single billionaire floating around in a country of then not far shy of a billionaire. In 2023, there's, I think, north of 300. And in India, they had billionaires back in 2020, 2000, but they had a great deal more. And this is going on right through Asia, even in little Vietnam, with its Communist Party, but also it's very powerful and very dynamic business groups. Vietnam now has about four or five billionaires. So tremendous accretion of inequality, particularly through wealth, but through earnings. There are other features that we can come to as well, but I don't have a lot of time, so I'm going to pass on. By the way, most business groups have, frankly, lousy corporate governance. If you're unwise enough to be a minority shareholder there, you better look out for yourself, because you will undoubtedly at some point either get expropriated or diluted. So there are lots of things that this system generates, which give undue benefits, outsize benefits to the owners and controllers of these business groups.  So we argue in the book that these are not good portents for future growth, partly because they are likely to give rise to what economists again call distributional contests or fights over who gets the pie. When you have very large amounts of inequality, it is extremely unlikely, based on historical experience, that you will not have, in a sense, contestation about that. And this may take the form, as it has done over the last 50 years in Latin America, of economic populism, not so inflation, not so very foolish macroeconomic policy and the like, because they have not been able to resolve these disputes. But it can also give rise to big outright political disturbances. And one indicator of that is if you look at modern-day Thailand. So Thailand, on one hand, is a sort of semi-feudal economy. It has a king, very libidinous king, as it happens, with some peculiar habits. It has a court, it has an army, which is strongly monarchist, and it has a bunch of politicians who, by and large, queue to the same line. But it also has political parties that don't like the system of preference and whose leader, the time, back nearly 15 years ago, Flexin Shinawatra, got elected on a fairly populist programme of large government spending, large benefits to poorer peoples. He was then ousted, sent into exile in effect, and so on. Right now, this year, they had an election. Actually, the electorate voted for parties that were not associated with the court and the current government. And actually, the main and leading party wasn't allowed to form the government. Now, there's a big story about that. We live it aside. But the point I'm trying to make is that when you get these tensions and when you get undue rewards flowing to small groups, you necessarily give rise to political just as much as economic tensions. Okay. Finally, what can be done about it? Well, actually, what can be done about it really starts at home. I worked for many years in the World Bank, and we went around telling people what to do. And for the most part, they never listened. Or if they did listen, they buggered it up. And the reason for that is that some advice from outside is rarely neutral advice. It has its own party pre. But if it doesn't come from within, and if there aren't constituencies within, they rarely get brought to the table and implemented. So if we were just making, as we try and do in the book, some suggestions to people in these countries as to sorts of policies that might improve things, well, there are all things about corporate governance, basically giving minority shareholders more rights, might make some difference, perhaps not that much. Is it likely to happen? Probably not in the near term. Secondly, there are issues to do with the big holding companies and other institutional forms for these business groups. They could be changed too. Actually, the Koreans have tried to change it over the last 40, 50 years. It didn't go anywhere because mainly these business groups, Samsung and the Light, are extremely artful and have managed to somewhere like that. And then there's taxation. Now, taxation has two levers you can pull here. The one is to say, we will tax companies that are part of business groups more than other companies. So if you're part of a business group, you will face a higher tax rate than he, if he's not. And that is possible. But of course it requires political will. And the second is actually perhaps even more powerful, and it probably would have surprised you, and it's something called inheritance taxes. Well, those of you know a bit about this country know that the inheritance tax here is about 40% over a relatively low threshold of about $320,000. In India, for example, in China, there is no inheritance tax. Now, in Japan, after the Second World War, they introduced a 55% inheritance tax, which was extremely effective in breaking up the combina, these business groups that dominated in Japan. And it's very interesting to see that in the last five years, and South Koreans have done exactly the same. They've put in place a 50% inheritance tax. And one consequence of this is that many of these business groups, including Samsung, are now radically rethinking whether they want to continue operating as family-owned and family-run businesses. And it's a combination of measures like this that can induce changes at the margin. So let me end. There are a number of other proposals we have in the book. I don't have time to talk about it for now. So let me end. Asia, as I started, is the great success story of modern times. If you look at the number of people in extreme poverty in Asia, in East Asia, China and the like, it's probably down to about 4%. By the way, extreme poverty is really a lot of poverty. It's about $2.5 a day. If you look at South Asia, it's about a quarter of the population. So there's still a lot in India, Barcelona, Bangladesh and the like. If you look at national poverty lines, it's much higher. But even so, growth success has eaten in to the endemic and cruel poverty that existed throughout much of Asia until relatively recent. So without dynamic economies, poverty will not only have a recrudescence, but will, in a course, have a way, blossom again. So it's very important that we do that. Now, can Asia grow? Well, the naive optimists say, of course it can, because the level of income of Asia is so low relative, say, to this country, there's just much more scope to grow. The convergence or catch-up idea I mentioned at the beginning. But it's not automatic. It's not a mechanical relationship. And I think the point we try and make in the book is that there is scope for Asia to accelerate and continue growing. But if it just keeps the same structures and relationships that I mentioned, it will struggle to do so. It will struggle to do so both for economic reasons through suppression of competition and the perpetuation of dualism and also for political reasons, as I partly indicated in the entire example. So on that note, I think perhaps I'll end it if that's all right. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Simon. I think you've given us quite a lot to think about. Any questions? Please. I had a question about de-globalisation and what's coming in after in 20 years. Or do you think that's a little bit the same for, I don't know, if I've got needs like you? Yeah. Shall I take it individually? Yes, okay. No, very good question. The de-globalisation thing is the conjecture, if you like, is mainly driven by the fact that, of course, China and the US in particular are loggerheads and a lot of US companies are retreating, trying to find other sources of suppliers and the like and so on and so on. Having said that, the empirical evidence so far is actually quite weak. Now, it may be because de-globalisation takes a long time to happen. If you have a company set up in Shenzhen or some bit of China and you have supply chains in and around the region, you can't just say, okay, well, politics has got nasty, I'll pick up sticks and go elsewhere. It doesn't work like that. It takes time and it takes write-offs and costs associated with it. So, I think de-globalisation is a genuine risk, but I think policy makers are aware of it. What I suspect will happen is that at an aggregate level, de-globalisation may not amount to a huge amount, but there will be some redirection of trade and investment within the globe. We already see that as companies seek out more opportunities in Vietnam, say relative to China and so on, and quite a lot of the companies are now playing up India as a big alternative. But just bear in mind that, A, Vietnam's a small economy with not the best of infrastructures and although India is a very big economy with parts of it very dynamic, the most dynamic parts are in a sense squatted upon by some of the business groups that I've just mentioned. So, it's hard to get into them first start. And secondly, a lot of the infrastructure in India, as any of you who might have visited will know, leaves a great deal to be desired even to this day. So, I think there's a bit more rhetoric than perhaps reality. I hope that gives a take on it. Please. Yes. Yes. What a good question. Well, look, the current direction of politics and the economy in China is definitely not to move towards more contestability to more democracy. It's going quite the other way. And that, to me, is sad. It's pretty undesirable. And I think we'll have unpleasant consequences for China and the Chinese economy as it happens. Now, will the links between business and government or and the party, the unique political party, grow stronger or weaker? Well, the evidence so far suggests that those links which were very tight were loosened from Deng Xiaoping's period onwards have actually, in a sense, been ratcheted up again. And right now, many of the leading companies, you can think of Tencent or Alibaba or Baidu or Huawei, for instance, these have far tighter links to the party and to controls from the party than they did even five years ago. Now, some of them were always very tightly linked, Huawei in particular, because it has an important military dimension. But these FinTech and social media and gaming companies like Tencent and Alibaba had far more autonomy four or five years ago than they do right now. Now, you can see why an authoritarian leader and a party, Xi and the party is at the moment, might think that's a good idea. I think it will back far why. Well, in their own way, many of these companies have actually been quite innovative. I mean, it's no accident, is it that Elon Musk thinks of himself and we tend to think of him as being quite innovative, wants to take Twitter or X, actually the way that Tencent and Alibaba went. What do I mean by that? Well, if you have Alipay and the like, you basically do everything within an ecology set up by the company, you buy goods, you use your email, you do social media, you do everything there. There's no boundaries of privacy and the like and no accident that Musk would like to repeat those. I don't think you'll be able to, because there are regulatory constraints in the States and elsewhere, thankfully. But these companies, my point is, have been actually quite inventive and quite. Now, when you put very tight muzzles on them, inventive people don't tend to react well. They either leave or they actually emigrate. And I would think that the pressures on these companies to be inventive and innovative will become greater rather than. And what it might also mean is that these companies will increasingly be steered towards a much narrower focus on the priorities of the government and the party. And let me just give one example and then built up. AI, so we all know how insurgent AI is and how potentially disruptive it is. Well, AI is very well developed in China. It's no surprise, probably for any of you. Some of it's been developed just in China. Some of it has been developed between collaborations, which are now, by the way, becoming much more difficult between Chinese scientists and Chinese diaspora, mainly in the US scientists too. But the evidence suggests that a lot of that AI has been directed and supported through public funding towards security and military applications. And there you see the rub. You can use the power of the state to direct invention and innovation, but the preferences of the state may stand in the way, not only of important things like civil rights and the like, which perhaps they don't care so much about, but also ultimately in term, again, a more general and more decentralized dynamism. So I hope that partly answers your question. Thank you. Well, Simon, thank you very much. I think we're going to have to call a halt there. I suspect there are many other questions that could be asked. So short break, five to ten minutes if that's all right to try and keep up. And Simon, thank you very much indeed.


Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you are new here. It is Friday So that means that it is a WW workshop day and way in day It is bright and early will not bright but dark and early at 6 25 a.m And I just pulled in but I wanted to share a little recap of my week with you guys before I head in to my workshop So first if you haven't already seen my changes video where I announced some major changes that I'm making on my Weightloss journey, I am going to link that down in the description box below for you guys Highly recommend that you watch that because my content moving forward is all going to be relating to that So it will make a little bit more sense for you And it's a great video with lots of great tips And I'm letting you know the changes that I'm making on my weightloss journey So make sure that you check that out and with that being said I posted that video yesterday Thursday But I actually started my new eating approach as of Sunday of this last week I didn't jump in a hundred percent because I am trying to use up the food that I have on hand I don't want to waste a lot of food, but I did take all of my processed snacks So those little mini rice cake bags that I bought at Costco all my Chips and I can't there's a bunch of stuff in there Oh my quest bars and all of those I took them all to my office through them on the counter and Literally yesterday when I went in they were gone and I brought them in on Monday So people are loving the snacks, but that way those processed foods are out of my house Not something I'm going to eat moving forward So I got rid of those and I went and did a lot of shopping this week at several stores and got my house All clean eating organic good whole ingredient food nothing processed And then I'm slowly but surely going through the rest of my sugar-free and my fat-free Food that I have on hand because again, I don't want to waste it So I've been doing that a little bit this week, but I am loving this new way of eating. I love it I love it. I love it. I feel so much better. I have more energy during the day I have more energy at my workout and my week went great. I wasn't hungry I was not hungry like I was when I ate processed food My life you guys has changed by making these this move and I thought long and hard about it Did a lot of research on the internet watched a lot of YouTube videos of clean eating to see if that was something That was actually sustainable to me because you guys know that sustainability on whatever plan you're on is so Important if it's not something you can do for the rest of your life It's not even worth starting because you're just going to gain your weight back when you stop Following that particular way of eating so I know this is something that I can stick with because I am allowing myself Some sugar-free items just not every day not several times a day and I'm absolutely eliminating fat-free That's just no longer an option as soon as the fat-free cheese that I have is gone Which I think I have less than one bag then I'm done with fat-free anything fat-free cheese cream cheese Yeah, name it. I'm done with it I actually went ahead and tossed my fat-free half-and-half because I got some really good creamy organic half-and-half Wait till you guys see my grocery haul wait till you guys see it tomorrow So my week was great just transitioning into this new way of eating and I hit up Jazzercise four days this last week So I was excited about that in fact I'm heading to Jazzercise right after my workshop this morning like I mentioned last week I'm loving the Friday workout after the workshop. It's great So before I ramble on because you guys know I never do that. I'm not big on the rambling I'm gonna head into my workshop stay for the meeting way in and I'll be back to share Topic as well as my weigh-in results for my first almost full week of clean eating Welcome back. I am out of my WW workshop. It was such a great topic as usual We talked about goals whether it's setting a big goal or a small goal and we talked about what is called the star Approach to setting goals. So when we set goals, we generally think big picture I know for me as you know when I did my 2020 goals video. I was definitely thinking big picture I'm like, what are my goals for the entire year of 2020 and that's great to think big picture for goals But it's also important to then break those goals into smaller goals That way you have something to look forward to throughout the time period It's something that you can shoot for on a weekly or monthly basis So I thought that that was a great approach to take and also focusing on the positive of Reaching that goal even when we're not reaching a goal still focusing on the positive of setting that goal and Striving to reach that goal. So I want to share with you exactly what this star theory is from WW So the S stands for specific. This is really important plan a Specific goal get very detail oriented in Pacific specific on exactly what you're wanting when it comes to that goal So for example for me my goal was to do Jazzercise three days a week You guys know this again from that 2020 goals video So to be specific on that I had to select what three days a week I wanted to do Jazzercise so I decided what those three days were if I was gonna be attending Jazzercise With anybody and then sticking to the three days that I plan and then any extra days are bonuses But you have to be specific So not just I'm gonna go to Jazzercise three days a week or I'm gonna try to work out or run or walk or go to the gym Three to four times a week be a little bit more specific And maybe the days that you're going to go and allow yourself of course a little bit of wiggle room Because life happens and we can't always get to the gym on the day that we think or want to go to the gym So the T stands for truly doable and I think again this kind of goes back to being specific Don't set a goal that you truly cannot do so for me if I said my goal is to go to Jazzercise six days a week I know that chances of that actually happening are not likely. I'm busy with real estate I'm extremely busy with YouTube. I have a husband and a life and Parents and friends and I know that six days a week just isn't doable for me So when I say that I'm going to set a goal of three days a week that is doable to me Anything above and beyond that is great. It's extra credit. It's bonus points But setting a goal that is doable is so important Nothing gets us more discouraged Then setting a goal and within the first day week month not reaching that goal because it just wasn't truly doable for us A is for active and I really really like How they brought active into the picture here So instead of focusing on the camps and the negatives focus on the positive instead of saying I am not gonna skip my workout Focus on something being positive. I am going to go to Jazzercise three days a week versus I'm not I'm not gonna skip my workout anymore First that's not specific That's not necessarily doable because there are gonna be times that you are going to have to skip your workout So take that negative and apply it to something positive Set a goal that is specific doable and Something that you can actually achieve and feel good about and the R stands for relevant So your goal should be something that you want to do not something that you have to do or that you're forced to do Or that you think you should do so if going to the gym is not something that you want to do You're not going to do it for one It's not going to be achievable doable sustainable It's got to be something that you want to do and I'm gonna go back to when I talked about working out prior to discovering Jazzercise I walked around my neighborhood. I am not a gym person. I have no desire to go to a gym So I knew that if I spent money to join a gym It would be totally wasted because it's not something that I want to do I want to walk where I live, but my web her in the winter not gonna happen So I had to find something that I enjoy and that I want to do and that keeps me going back and for me Like I've mentioned that's Jazzercise. I love it. I look forward to my classes. I never I very okay I don't want to say never but I very rarely have to drag myself there It's something that I actually look forward to like I'm excited in the next 20 minutes to go to my Jazzercise class So find something that you want to do and focus on that It's going to be something that you're going to stick with and is sustainable and will help you reach your goals So in a nutshell set a weekly goal and then use that star method to help you achieve that goal and don't Beat yourself up if you don't reach every goal that you set if I don't make it to Jazzercise three times one week I'm not going to beat myself up over that that is my goal That is what I want to do, but I also know that life happens and I'm giving myself a little bit of grace if need be What if I'm sick or I'm just not available to go three days a week? I don't want to beat myself up over that because I'm not going to one remain positive and two want to continue with my Goal, so I love it I think the star approach is something we can remember so anytime that we're planning a goal Whether it be a long-term goal or a short-term goal, we can use the star approach to do just all right My friends what a great workshop topic once again WW so as I mentioned before I went in you guys know that I've switched my Eating habits or eating style to a more organic clean food whole food diet I've eliminated 95% of processed foods I've eliminated fat free 100% and I have changed sugar free to Maybe an 80% versus a hundred percent and I am limiting myself to good for you sugar alternatives the monk fruits of the world The stevia's of the world the urethra tall Those are some of the best choices that you can choose for a sugar alternative because they don't spike your blood sugar or Affect your glycemic index so you guys know that's what I'm shooting for I did actually start this on Sunday of This last week and slowly have been transitioning this week I'm again still getting rid of a lot of those foods in my house So I'm not a hundred percent, but I would say that I was 75% this last week into my new eating style And as I mentioned I feel better. I'm my workouts are better I feel leaner and happier and healthier and Lighter because when I stepped on the scale you guys I lost Wait for it Three point four this week three point four pounds That is the most that I have lost and I don't know how long and I can only Attribute that to the fact that I changed the foods that I'm eating so I made such a fantastic decision for myself By going down the clean eating organic whole food route because three point four is Amazing and if I can do half of that on a weekly basis I am gonna reach my goal of 50 pounds lost no questions asked this year So I'm really excited to lose three point four pounds I feel better like I said I just feel leaner and stronger and healthier And I'm sure that has to do with not only the foods that I'm eating but also going to jazz or size and getting in a consistent workout So yay, that is a fan a tastic news. I honestly was not expecting that I was not expecting that big of a loss So I'm very curious to see what happens next week because I'll be a little bit more into my clean eating because a lot of these Fat-free types of foods will be gone out of my house by the time I start this next week because you guys know I use my weeklies on Saturday. I've actually gotten that question a couple times. Am I still going to use my weeklies? Yes, I'm still going to have my treat day on Saturday where I go out to breakfast lunch or dinner with my husband It's a no tracking day for me I am however going to be making better choices for the other meals that I consume on my treat day and And still being able to splurge and indulge in that one meal a day And I don't think that's going to affect my problem Excuse me my progress, but we will find out when I step on the scale next week. So That's my plan. 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Lux presents Hollywood. Leave your brothers company, the makers of Lux Flakes bring you the Lux Radio Theatre starring Robert Cummings and Blythe Howard De Silva and Lee J. Cobb in Great Expectations. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keely. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, the Lux Radio Theatre inaugurates its 14th year on the air. And I'd like to thank you of the listening audience, as well as the motion picture studios and stars for making our past 13 years so happy and successful. And in celebration, we bring you tonight one of the greatest English classics ever filmed. J. Arthur ranks Green Epic, Great Expectations. Start in our cast are four of Hollywood's favorite players, Robert Cummings and Blythe Howard De Silva and Lee J. Cobb. Any anniversary is a time for taking stock of the past. And we note with particular pride the ever-growing popularity of Lux Flakes. During the lifetime of this theater and for years before, they've entered more and more American homes to become a household word for cleanliness, discrimination and good taste. And I'm sure that you who put your faith in Lux Flakes have been happily rewarded. On to tonight's play, David Lean's production of Great Expectations, starring Robert Cummings as Pip and Blythe as Estella, Howard De Silva as Jaggers and Lee J. Cobb as Magwitch. This dark and tangled narrative has its beginning in the year 2021. I was 12 years of age, living in the south of England with my sister and her husband. Late one, gusty autumn afternoon, I visited the village church yard where my mother and father are buried. And suddenly, from behind one of the tombstones...  He was looming over me, huge and horrible. His great wrists shackled in chains and escaped convict. Tell us your name, quick. Pip. Pip, sir. You're lying, that's no name. Oh, yes, sir. Pip, it really is. But they call me Pip. Show us where you live. Three miles, sir. Across the marshes. Where's your father? Here, sir. This is his grave. Your mother? Here, too, sir. Well, who do you live with? Supposing you're kindly led to live, which I ain't made up my mind about as yet. With my sister, sir, there's Joe Gardnery. Why's with Joe Gardnery the blacksmith? Blacksmith, eh? No, the file looks like... A file. Yes, sir. You know what, whittles? Yes, sir. Food, sir. You get me a file and you get me whittles. I'll have your heart and liver out. I'll try, sir. You'll bring them whittles and that file to me in this church yard tomorrow morning. A daylight. Yes, sir.  There's another man hid here with me. He has a secret way of getting at a boy and telling him why it opened.  Heaven strike me dead if I breathe a word. Bob, get your hold. As I expected, my sister had a welcome for me when I returned. But I've only been to the church yard, Mrs. Joe. You can stop baiting on me. Is that enough? I have no opinion of you. Not like us. And you, too, you young devil. Sit down, boy. Joe, that noise. What was that? Was that great commons, too? I learned escape convicts, too, of them from the prison ships across the marshes and the river. I wonder who's put in the prison ships and why they're put in prison ships. People who murder Pip and Forge and Rob. And they always start by asking too many questions. Now you clean your plate and get off to bed. What sleep I had that night was plagued with the dreadful vision of the convict waiting for me in the church yard. I was up long before dawn. Country I stole a portholement for Joe's profile. I ran most of the way. It gave me less time to sleep. I'm here, sir. You're brought none with you? No, sir. This is for you, sir. A pork pie and Jill's brandy, sir. Give it here. I think you have the Jill, sir. And I'm much of your opinion, boy. The food now. The food. Oh, are you a star, sir? I'm glad to see you enjoy it, sir. Thank you, boy. Thank you, I do. Aren't you going to leave anything for him? Him? Your friend, the other man. I didn't say it was a friend of mine. Anyway, he's gone. Now give us the file, boy. If there isn't anything else, sir, may I please the hell now? Yeah, go on. I'm beholden to you. Thank you, boy. Thank you. All day long, the mounted soldiers swarmed over the marshes, searching for the convicts. They were captured, both of them. On the way back to the prison ship, the sergeant's horse lost a shoe, so they stopped at Joe's blacksmith shop. And with them, the convict, I had helped. So you caught them both, sergeant. But what happened to the other one? The couple stuck him on their head. We've not have got this one at all. It wasn't for the help that somebody gave us. Hey, my witch, isn't that right now? That's right, no. What are you looking to buy for? No reason. Sergeant, I wish to say something respectful to see our escape. You do, eh? I'll say it. May I prevent some persons from suffering suspicions? Now that I know it was my ship might turn me in. Well, I stole some food from this blacksmith's house last night. You were in my house last night? I stole a drama liquor and a pork pie. The pork pie? My Mrs. Fair told the house down looking for it. Eh, I'm sorry to say I ate your pie. Oh, you're welcome. Toad is every to our mind. We wouldn't want you to starve to death. Would us, Pip? No, June, no. Get back there for us, you blacksmith. Good luck. It was a year later when an adventure of quite another sort befell me. My great-uncle, Pumblechook, came to the house on a very mysterious end.  Ah, well, you hear that, boy? Yes, ma'am. Well, it don't make sense what she wants him for in that great old house. But do you know who Miss Aversham is? A strange lady who nobody sees. Oh, and she's mad. Ain't she, Mrs. Joe? Well, she may be mad, but she's rich enough to make the boy's fortune. A message says she wants Pip to come to her house and play. Then he'd better go and play, or I'll work him good. Get to the pump, boy. Get to the pump and scrub till you're shying. Here's the fine big gate grand-nevy. So ring the bell, ring it, boy. Pumblechook. Quite right. She's coming. Securo. First girl you've ever seen, is it? No, sir. Then restrain your observation, sir, till he invite it. This is Pip, young lady. So this is Pip, is it? Come, Pip. Not you, only him. Hey, not me. Go away. Come along, boy. The house is like nothing I'd ever seen before, a sims, with a musty smell and dust and cardboard everywhere, as if the house had died. Not a ray of sunlight. Only the glimmer of the candle in the hand of the little girls and the ring of our footsteps on the stone. This door, boy, over here. After you, miss. Don't be silly. I'm not going in. Who is this? Who's there? Pip, ma'am. Mr. Pumblechook's boy, come to play. Let me look at you. Well, you aren't afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since before you were born. No, Miss Havisham. Look at my hand. What do I touch when I put my hand here? Your heart. Broken. My broken heart.  And I've had a fancy that I would like to see someone play. Well, play, play. Estella, come here. Play with his boy. With him? A common ladering boy. Look at his boots. You can break his heart, Estella. Boy, play cards with her. Here, cards. Deal the cards, boy. Yes, miss. What course can? I'm sorry, miss. Now look at you, Dan. You've dropped the card. Excuse me. I'll pick them all.  She has many hard things to say of you, Pip. Have you nothing to say of her? I think she's very insulting. Anything else? I think she's very pretty. Anything else? I think I should like to go home now. And never see her again, even though she's so pretty. I'm not sure that I shouldn't like to see her, Cain. But I think I should like to go home now. You shall go home in time. Play the game out. Thereafter, in accordance with Miss Havish's wishes, I made innumerable visits to the Great House, each time with a cruel, tormented smile. Estella would meet me and take me to this house. Well, boy, well, miss, am I pretty today? Yes, I think you are very pretty. Am I insulting? Not so much as choosing this. Not so much so.  What do you think of me now? I won't tell you.  You cried that first day, didn't you? I saw you. You went through the gate crying. And she'll never cry because of you again. Open the door. Today, she's in there. This was one of the many rooms I had never before entered. In the candlelight, I saw an immense table with chairs about and laden with dishes and fine silver. But upon everything hung the same pall of dirt and decay. The seat at the head of the table was mis-havishing. Do you know what that is in the center of the table? Numen. A wedding cake. My wedding cake, Pip. Long before you were born, it was placed there. It and I have worn away together. The mice have knotted it, Pip. But sharper teeth have knotted me. Say, say, boy, run along now, run along. You'll find a stellar in the garden. A stellar was not in the garden. A boy was there, a stranger, stripped of the waist and holding up his fists. He said a stellar had sent for him to fight me and teach me manners. So I fought with him and cut his eye and set his nose to bleeding. He was very gracious about it. You've won all right. Lights over. Can't I help you? I really didn't mean to. No, thanks. I'm kept up. Can't understand how you did it, though. You're leaving? Oh, yes. No point in staying. Now is that? Well, good afternoon, then. Same to you. Where are you? Over here. And don't ask when I call you come. Yes, miss. You whipped the village boy. I had no wish to fight it all. But you whipped him, sir. So you may kiss me. Thank you. Now go home. It's no use. You'll never become a gentleman. I would never become a gentleman any more than I could give up running to Miss Havisham every time she gave me leave to do so. By now, I had entered upon the regular occupation of pushing Miss Havisham from room to room in a chair while she questioned me as to what books I had read and what I was going to be. Estella was always hovering about.    My admiration for her knew no bounds. And scarcely a night went by without my falling asleep with the image of a lovely face before me. And then came a day when I went to Havisham house with slow feet and a heavy heart. I can't come to see you anymore, Miss Havisham. I've heard the news, Pip. Your sister has died. Yes. She treated you miserably. You'll do better without her. But I have to help Joe now, Miss Havisham, about the cottage and at the forge. An apprentice blacksmith? You? Yes, Miss Havisham. Since this is your last visit, here, some golden sovereigns. Thank you. You've earned them well. Thank you. Estella, show the boy out. Goodbye, Miss Havisham. I heard what you told her. You had better say goodbye to me because I'm going away too. Going away? To France to be educated. France? Well, aren't you sawing? Yes, Miss Havisham. I'm very sorry. Well, well, who are we here? A boy, Mr. Jaggers. A boy, eh? From the neighborhood? Yes, sir. Miss Havisham sent for me, sir. We'll behave yourselves then.  Miss, I shall talk to you about your passage to France. I'll be right there, Jaggers. I wish I knew when you were coming back, Stella. And I wish, well, what do you wish? I wish I could kiss you goodbye. I can see what happens. Thank you. My good will, by the booksmith began. I was happy enough, especially when Joe brought a biddy into us as the new Mrs. Joe, a trusted friend of both, and a blessing on the household. In the sixth of my apprenticeship, I saw Mr. Jaggers again, cottage asking to see Joe and me alone. Sir, so you're all a blacksmith, eh? My name, Joe, or Joe Gargery? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Have you heard of this company known as Pip? I'm Pip, sir. Oh, so you're Pip, are you? My name is Jaggers. I'm a lawyer in London. You better close that door. Now, Joe's of Gargery? And I'm the bearer of an early view of this young fellow. You would not object to canceling his apprenticeship, or you would want nothing for serving? Well, I haven't forbid that I should want anything for not stacked hips weight. Hey, he's a fine good lad, sir. Very well, and very well. I come now to the young fellow himself. To him I say he has great expectation. I am expected, I mean, that he will come into a handsome property, Pip, away, away. Further, it is the desire of the present possessory, that he shall be immediately removed from his present sphere and brought up as befit the young gentleman, that he ought to have a name of Pip. If you have any objection, Kylie mentioned it now. I've no objection. I should think not, indeed. Further, Miss Pip, you ought to have a name of the person who is your benefactor. It's to remain a perfect secret until the person chooses to reveal it. Yes, sir. If you have any suspicion as to who that person might be, keep it within your own breasts, sir. I have no objection. Now then, finally consider me your guardian. Thank you, sir. Oh, let me tell you, I'm quite well paid for my services. Otherwise I shall move them. I shall arrange for you to come to London in two weeks. Some new clothes here, sir, are 20 guinea. Well, well, Joseph's guard's done founded. Sir, I am. Thank you, Mr. Godry. Good night, Mr. Pip. Since I sought for Mara, Miss Havisham, I thought you would kindly not mind my taking leave. Well, Pip, well, I must say your clothes are quite handsome. Miss Havisham, I've been to wonderful good fortune since I last saw you. I have seen Mr. Pip. I have heard all about it. Have you had any news from Estella? Oh, yes. Tears are never, I dare say, and admire them. I will see her. You too have a promise. Be good and deserve it. Miss Havisham, oh, thank you. Thank you for everything. Oh. Goodbye, goodbye, Betty.   Hey, boy. Take good care. One day I'll come and see you, Pip. What loss, eh? Goodbye. Oh, Joe. Vandal, who could it be, Joe? Not worry, Ed, over there, darling. Just wave to a young gentleman. A young gentleman, dexpectations. Act two of Universal International's release, Great Patience, starring Robert Cummings as Pip as Estella, Howard the Silver as Jaggers, and Jay Cobb as Magritch, like the wonder of London. And I was a part of it now. Upon my arrival, I went to the offices of Mr. Jack. So you've arrived safely, Mr. Pip. Wemmick, bring the file on Mr. Pip.  I beg your pardon, sir. Those claimants on the wall, they're deathmack, deceased clients. I've had the honor of the distinguished criminal for the generation. Yes, sir. Oh, thank you. Mr. Pip, Wemmick here will conduct you to... You will share rooms there with a Mr. Herbert's pocket. Mr. Pocket will assist in your acquaintance and the manners of love. Take it that is agreeable? Indeed, sir. Next, sir. Your allowance will be 250 pounds per annum. A very handsome sum of money, too, I think. Oh, I doubt it, Mr. Popes, you'll go wrong somehow, but that being neither fault nor affair of mine, why spout of it? Goodbye, then, Mr. Pip, and good luck. My rooms in Barnard's Inn were most comfortable, and the young man I shared them with, Herbert Pocket, most amiable, to stop at that night, we suddenly found ourselves stuck. What? Well, you're the boy! No, you're the boy who knocked me down in Miss Havisham's garden someplace before. Well, then, instead of new friends, we're old friends. Well, if Miss Havisham had taken a liking to me, instead of being provided for, I might even be engaged to his... Herbert, who? Oh, Miss Havisham's ward.  Rick Gravenge? Miss Pip, I thought you knew. Well, anyway, some 20 years ago, Miss Havisham felt that I was a stranger. A marriage was arranged, the wedding gate was set, the marriage arrived, but not the bridegroom. And that affair, well, Miss Havisham fell immediately, but, if ever she did, she laid the waste as you've seen it, and has never since looked upon the light of day. When did she adopt Estella? I don't know. What about Estella, as I do? If I learn little from Herbert about Estella, I feel about the art of being a useless young gentleman. Hey, Mr. Jaggers, my guardian, stand forward.  Now then, what do you say to him? At the rate of, Mr. Jaggers? I'm afraid I'm not able to answer that. I thought, well, I've asked you a question. Have you a question to ask of me? It would be a great relief to ask you several questions, Mr. Jaggers, if it... Ask what? Is it a factor to be made known to me today? No, ask me enough. Well, I was just wondering if I had to receive. Yes, I thought we should come to that. Yes, sir. Mr. Pip, you've been spending pretty freely of late... I'm afraid I must say yes, sir. You know you must... Yes, sir. Well, make a hand, Mr. Pip, that piece of... What do you want, Mr. Pip? It's a banknote. A banknote for a hundred pounds. And at the rate of that handsome sump rate, you ought to live until your benefactor appears. Will it still be years hence, Mr. Jaggers? Good afternoon, Mr. Pip. Still, the mystery of my benefactor persists. He was at both softened admittedly by the doubling of my income. After that, Joe Gargery wrote me a letter. He was coming up a sudden. I realized I was ashamed of Joe. And I had succeeded in beginning a snob. None had evolved so late as he who swindled himself. Look, Pip, I've been here all day, sir. Oh, Joe, and you've treated me fine, sir. But long, yeah, I wouldn't have come except Miss Aversham. Would you tell Mr. Pipsy says that I wish to see him fire to him? Well, I've now... Oh, you're going, Joe? Pip, old chap, you want figures to be seen together in London? I'm bored. Well, you may stay the night if you wish. Oh, no.  I presented myself once again at Haversham House. Come in, Pip. How good to see you. Well, have you no eyes but for me? Estella. Oh, what a wonderful surprise and pleasure. You will both have it with each other. Go out into the garden. And this is where you had to find the pocket. Oh, I enjoyed that bathroom. It made me very much. Did I? Don't you remember? No, I don't. Do you remember the first time I came here? The time you made me cry? I made you cry. I remember. You meant nothing to me. Why should I remember? Life, Pip, that I have no heart. Perhaps that's why I'm angry. No one looking at you could believe that, Estella. No. If we ought to be thrown together, you would better believe that it won't. At any rate, it's said. So don't expect too much. Come, Pip. We'll walk once more, love. Beautiful Pip, graceful groom. Do you admire Estella? Must to see the Miss Haversham. She is going to London. I shall be the happiest man there. Love her. Love you, love her. If she tears your heart, love her. I made her to be... Oh, oh, Mr. Jaggers. Madam, Mr. Pip. What are you doing here? I wished me to see Estella. Huh? Oh, yeah. A very fine young lady. I called briefly upon Joe and Biddy and returned to London. It was my unbounded pleasure to extend my arm to Estella. Sorry. We sat and talked in a nearby coffee shop. You mean you're not staying here in London? I mean that I should be staying in Richmond. I've been only ten miles from here. But why Richmond? I'm going to live with a lady there who has the power of showing me to people.  It is a part of Miss Havisham's... But I cannot take great pleasure Pip in events I do not. I try to be beautiful and gay and obedient. Always be a part of Miss Havisham's plan. Thrive with Mr. Pocket. Estella, I ask you. Will you... Do you thrive with Mr. Pocket? At least it's... Yes. ...as pleasant as... Estella, so near London, I was able to see her often in the months that followed. One of many admirers. One winter's night, Estella... You don't... I'm sorry. Now I've promised to pocket Mr. Drummond.  Look at him. Is there anything to look at? That's a question I wanted to ask you for weeks. Hovering over you. All sorts of ugly creatures, though. Can the candle help you? Oh, it makes me red in looks and smiles. Such as you never give me. Do you deceive and entrap you? Do you deceive and entrap... No. All of them but you. I went back to London. Hubbard had not yet come home. I saw an old man, his long white hair and his black coat dripping with the rain. Pip. Hi, Mr. Pip, sir. Yeah. I'd like to sit down first. It's disappointing to a man after having... What do you mean? Uh... Why do you ask that?  I'm glad you grown here. Look at me. How do I know who you... They food to. I acted noble Pip. And I never forgot. There was no need for you to come here to thank me. I want to see you again. If I spoke harshly to you just now, I'm... I'm sorry. In living. I've been a sheep farmer. Far away. You've done very well. I have done... Wonderful well. Convict. I'm glad. I... You've done well, too. May I... Make so bold as to ask... How? Well, I've been chosen to... May I ask... What property? May I ask... Whose property? I don't... Could I make a guess, I wonder, at your... Income? Say, um... 500 pounds. For guardian. Could it be he's a lawyer, Pip? To that lawyer's name now. Would it be, um... How do you know that? As to the employer of that... Begin with Jay. And might be Jagger. It's you. Yes, Pip. Give me your hand, Pip. Let me... I swore that time sure as ever I'd escape again. That guinea should go to you. Hunt a dog what you kept life in. Got his head... Could make a gentleman... And... Did you ever think it might be me? No, never. Uh... No one else has? No one else, dear boy. Single-handed father, Pip. Me. Let's talk to you, Mr. Jaggers. Uh, alone. Oh? Get out. I said... I've never seen her here before. She's been here before. Four years, Mr. Pip. I once saved her from the hangman, and now she cleans... Mr. Jaggers. I want to assure myself that what I have been told... Or, uh, informed. Told would imply that I have verbal communication with a man, for example, in New South Wales. Informed, then. I have been informed by a person named... That he is the benefactor so long unknown to... Well, whatever it is, I have always supposed it was mis- Why? Is that a particle of evidence, Pip? Anything on evidence? Would you have nothing more to say? I will say this. I think you should know that I communicated with a Mr. Abel Magui, finding him that if he should ever set foot again in this country, he would take a look out that window, Pip. What is occurring in the prison yard? It's horrible. They're preparing to hang... Eight? I believe this morning. Happens that his enemies here would not hesitate to inform on an escaped convict. There is a... I see. But no doubt he has been guided out of Wales. But if Mr. Magui were in this country, out of this country at once, would he not, if he were here? Yes. Yes, at once. He must be gone. Good day, Mr. Jaggers. I'm a reporter and CBS Joy-Ar Entertainment News with Sam Rubin and Tom Haddon. Reports from places where news is breaking or hearings and just maybe it's the nightly drama hour. Whatever you're... they're all right here at this 1070 spot on your AM dios in your car or just out and about. You can always see your world. Thanks for listening and for being part of the radio station in Southern California. Now to William Kealy. Act III of the book Cummings as Pip and Bly the Cestella Jaggers I knew my benefactor, I knew he was now risking his life, but I had one course to follow. Somehow I must get aid this side as long as he lived. With one only leaving him to care for Mr. Magwitch, I sought a stellar. We have company, Miss Havisham. Look, and what brings you here, Mr. Tipsoge? My benefactor is, Miss Havisham. I am as unhappy as I could have wished me to be. Well, who is he? When Mr. Jaggers... Mr. Jaggers had nothing to do with lawyer and the lawyer of your patron is Cohen. Yes, I led you on. Was that kind? That I should be kind. Broken sooner, Stella, just for one another. I felt I could not tell you of my real truth for yourself. But now that I am going away, I loved you, Stella. I loved you since I first came to this house. I love me, but you would not be warned. Is it true thing you? Quite true. And that you encourage him? Oh, you cannot fling yourself as such a man. Should I fling myself once that I bring nothing to you? But you can't love him, Stella. Marry him, Pip. Don't be afraid of my b... Here. Here is my hand. You'll get me out of your thoughts in a week. Good... Let her go, Pip. What have I... I was when a frightful scream set me rushing back.  I dashed to the room and spotted the flames. A falling candle must have started the fire. Miss Havisham... Miss Havisham... Miss Havisham... was dead. But I returned to London. I had you come to my house. Why do you ask? Because of a certain convict knows it is watched. I also hear that you are being watched again. So I advised a certain Mr. Herbert Pocket while you were out of the way. Where are they? Mr. Bagwich and our faithful friend Herbert Pocket were in an obscure lodging house on the Thames Ripper. Only that we'd be safe here for a while. Don't fret over me, dear boy. Jagger spoke to me of an enemy. Do you know... The same man I told you of in the churchyard. He turned and he'd do it again to see me hanged.  You won't have to leave me. With me. You'd come with me.  Boys turned out to be. Twice a week a packet boat left Grey's End Pier. When one watched us, he'd be at that pier. We had to find somewhere where there was a buoy. Here we observed the boat would always occasion to take on passengers. That was where Daily Herbert and I went rowing in the river, becoming familiar figures to last the day came that we'd waited for. But it was in heavy rain. How does it look from the window, Pip? Black as ever. See it swamper before we get... What is it for? They're on horseback. They're looking at this house. Elite? I can't say. I think they're going now. They're walking their horses. This way? They can't be too sure of themselves or they'd go to Gallup. Get ready. We're rowing out this morning. A storm stop, Pip. I'd like to... We'll be all right. Something, Mr. Magwitch. What, dear boy? What I'd more matter. Why have you done so much for me? Pip, little girl. What happened to her? I don't know. Shivering marshes.  Straight ahead. We've made it. There's another bottle. Who could it be? We'll wait to find out. Swing around. We can still lose them. There were four men at the oars of the door on us. Then, through the fog, we heard the engines of the packet boat. There was but one desperate chance to take. Ro, straight from down, would rest their oars. But if they too heard the ship, ten feet from us when the packet boat leaped from the mist and crushed it both... What happened that next moment? For Mr. Magwitch, old as he was, swimming toward a figure who had each other's throats, and then the stranger screaming at the great man into the churning waters. The next I knew, Mr. Magwitch was lying on the deck. They're taking us back... Myself with this. I'm alright. Fine. And took my chance. I'll check you off alright. Able Magwitch, the sentence of the court is execution and they're hanged by the neck. I've just come from the warden's death tomorrow. There's nothing we could do. Nothing. The man is quite a little bit. Yes, I know. But it's fortunate that becomes the claim of the crown. The money... It might have been different, but it is not different. The money might go to the child. Mr. Jaggers, I know there was. And what is more, you sit down. I'm going to put a case to you. Take a look. Go on. Now put the case. But this woosh lady, who is anxious to adopt a little girl.  I understand, but I can hardly believe it. Observe who comes. Some fresh water on the basin. Well, Pip, I'm in my right mind. If that woman you call a mother's advisor you mentioned, we'll have a lot to answer for. Now, I've often seen children tried at the criminal bar. Whipped and cast out. And growing up to be hanged. Put the case. Pretty little child of all that miserable heap that could be saved. Be careful with it. I do, Mr. Jaggers. He did right. Does it sell a lot? No. She must never be told. Well, if the claim uses its own judgment which he is in the process of arriving at, in a while, you will find the child's father in the prison. Dear boy, I mean, it somehow I knew that you would. God bless you Pip, and me. And what input along me since I was under the sun, so, that's the best of all. I don't complain of none. I have something to say to you.  Pip, you're out. Be merciful. April Mack, which died in my arms. But then, suddenly finding a room spinning before my, when my senses returned, Roger was smiling over me. You're better Pip, you're favorite. It is you, Joe.  Three weeks he brought you home, dear old Pip old chap, Betty, the way I turned from you. Oh, if you breath, come what may. Soon you'll be well again. Betty. Right here. The best husband in the world, Betty. And Joe, Pip old chap, which I know. One day you met, and you still said for her. I think of her. But that poor, I knew as I said these words, that I intended to be, and when that day came, I walked through that years gone by. What names? Some times I have six hands, please. Don't lie to boys. Of course, common slavery boys.  I opened the door of Miss Havisham's room. Miss Havisham sitting in her chair, Estella, husband. I have no heard. I've been, I've heard nothing. I've been to a drama, whom my parents were. Well, Pip. I have no wish to laugh, Estella. I know, and I shall live here. Away from the world and all. Have you been here? I don't know. You must live here, Estella. This is the house where I grew up. It's part of me. Gone from both of us. She's not gone. She's still here in this very room. Miss Havisham, I have come back to let the sunlight in. On the drake. There is sunshine in your home again, Miss Havisham. Estella. Oh, my darling. You're afraid. Look at me. You will stop. Come with me, Estella. Out into the sun. Join me in inviting you to be with us again. Your theatre presents Robert Montgomery, Lloyd Nolan in 13 Room Adelaide. This is William Moore from Hollywood.


I thought that would work. Fuzzy! No! How's it going everybody? Dodge O'Doway here back with another round of Dragon Ball Fighters Rank Matches. This time playing a recommended team of Dragon Ball Super Broly, Android 16 and DBZ Broly. Now really quickly before we get into the video this intro is actually recorded after the fact and that is because we're going up against a player that we have played against before on the channel. Essentially this is the same guy we played against for two videos back to back where he TOD'd us and I think both videos. I'll show the clips up on screen now if I still have them. Yeah I just wanted to show those because throughout this set I bring up a lot of the stuff I'm doing and why I'm doing it and then compare it to older sets. So I just thought you should have context for what I was talking about. Now with all that out of the way let's actually hop into these Rank Matches. We are also going up against Shaco here. We've played against him, you know, a few times before. He knows his way around a TOD is all I'm really able to say here. Get him in the corner, that's going to be important for later. Let's see if he reflects. I'm going to EX this. That was bad. That was really bad. I'm just hoping to tag out here. I stood up there for a solid second, glad nothing bad came of it. But I'm open to the idea of... Oh my goodness. Alright we get a grab. This has been so intense. One, two...  Oh no we get hit by Zamasu. How much damage is this? It's a TOD in some areas of the country.  That was a crazy transition. Man just said let me fly just in case you actually do block it. I didn't expect you to but... Yabcha these days dude. I gotta stop mashing after Super Dash dude. The odds of you getting hit by something are just too high. Lots of damage here on the board. I jumped again. No you hate to see a jump happen. You just hate to be a part of it.  I'm just going to go for the switch again. I tried to back dash the reeds. I got hit again. Super Dash is always something you gotta keep your eye on. Watchful eye. Why did it put me back in the corner?  You really hate to see it. Alright well he's going to try to TOD me. We already know that's the case. We already know a TOD is on its way but we can't let it happen. We can't let a TOD happen. We gotta get rid of Zamasu right here. He's really going to save Zamasu for that TOD. To be fair he might also be saving it for the assist at this point. Level 3 you gotta watch out. I'm doing okay defensive wise but the offense with this team was just crumbling. Crumbling. Man this is so tense. I have no way to heal myself. I tried to EX the old boy. What a first match. You can see how quiet I have to be to focus on defense. A TOD is definitely coming. I know it to be true. I've lived this life so many times at this point. I've lived this life before. Cross up I just couldn't get up in time. It's always so hard to get up for me. If I'm on the ground playing my defense and they jump I'm just loading. I will talk to you in one second when I'm done loading. Alright I'm just going to go here. Keep the jump. Again dude that Yamcha assist is wild. Was he playing Yamcha last time we played? I think so. Man I wish I had my main team for something like this. I'm dead. No I'm not. This is not a crazy starter. But Zamasu does do a lot of damage. Alright we'll take it. We'll take the damage. Again oh we got it. Oh we dropped it. He was definitely trying to keep a little corner there. My man got a little greedy. Nice tag saving the assist. Saving that assist and the TOD potential as well. I can get behind it. Hate defense.    I struggle with the defense. Nope. Okay we got him. I think we got him anyway. Just kill him. Just get rid of Zamasu dude. I can't breathe with Zamasu around. You know how I feel about this man dude. Nice key blast. The neutral game against this guy is going to be so tough. We just got to keep on playing especially with this team. Defense and fundamentals are heightened. Oh my man. It's so tough. It's so tough playing matches like this. I thought that would work. Fuzzy. No. Geez. Does that count as if I think it does right? Whatever. It's got the properties of one. I can't believe I didn't capitalize on it. It's getting random. Dang. Again I got opened up by Yancha. Oh he reset me. Come on dude. I was doing that thing where when you get serious you straighten up in your chair. I was sliding back my chair. No. He's going to have to go into level 3 here if he wants to kill. Which he does. We can still win with Broly. It'll be hard with the level 3 sparking if that's what he chooses to use. We can still do this. We can definitely still get it done. We can definitely still get it done. No armor. He gets the vanish combo. Assist is up by the way so we're not out of the woods. Guard of guard cancel here. Okay. Save the jump. He just mashed? Why would he mash? Oh it makes sense. Looking back but why did he do it? I was going to be so happy. I was going to be so happy if he didn't mash there. I thought we had the reed of a lifetime. Oh the reeds. Can't believe that.  No assist we're up. We're like free reign. Okay. We got to just make sure we keep him out of the corner here. Talk to me. I tried it again. I always try to go for that dragon rush. I don't know why. I was going to try to stop for that vid. All these keyblasts. Get these keyblasts away from me. I'm trying to run up and grab you. Oh what are you again? Man that keyblast is so nice. Okay. Well we made a big mistake by not getting the combo there. I should have went with 2L. I always forget. Alright we got it. Oh my goodness. Okay. We're down sparking but that's fine because I'm really just trying to avoid the TOD. This is what happens when you play past sets with people. Because now I'm specifically trying not to get 2M in the corner. So I'm wasting early sparks. But trust me. Trust me it's worth. I know it looks like it's not. Trust me it is. Trust me it is. Alright.  This team is so tall. This team is I got punished for that. That's fine. I should have known I'd get punished for it. I'll see if he drops it. No no drops here. Hate to see it.  Okay okay hold on. We could still do this with 16. That was uh it wasn't supposed to be sarcasm. But it probably is. I don't have many games with 16. Fuzzies. Life is paid. He's got it. I think he's got the damage. Yamcha assist. Level 1 to level 3 probably was going to do it. It's over. It's over dude. That was such an intense set. But we get beat 3-0. I don't feel like we grabbed anybody. That was a lot of fun. So hopefully you enjoyed it nonetheless. If you did let me know down below in the comment section while you're down there. Also let me know if you guys want to see more intense games like this where I don't really talk as much. But yeah definitely let me know that down below in the comment. But while you're down there if you liked the video and the channel definitely make sure to hit the like button and subscribe to stay up to date on all the content we put out here especially revolving around fighting games and all of the new Dragon Ball Fighter stuff to come. If you want to watch more videos right away there should be some up on your screen so definitely give those a watch if they catch your eye. I have been Dr. Doer. Thanks again for making it to the end and I will see you in the next one.


This is something that I've noticed about people who spend time in prayer. People of prayer pray about everything. They're constantly going before the Lord. Why? Because they want to walk in that perfect will of God. In fact, some people might think you're ridiculous for taking as much to prayer as you do, but you know that your confidence is not in self. You know that your confidence is in God. You understand that you're relying completely on His power. Nothing is impossible for God, and prayer warriors know that. If you'll make a commitment right now to pray daily, type prayer first in the comment section.