Welcome everyone. Thank you for attending this afternoon's session. I wanted to just spend a little bit of time talking through a major transformation that Cisco has been undergoing over the last six months. We're kind of at the beginning of the journey and so there's a lot of information in here that you know we obviously haven't learned all the lessons yet but as we go through this journey we're learning a lot of lessons and I want to kind of share some of those with everyone. And so just kind of an outline of what I'm going to be speaking to. I want to kind of talk a little about what's happened in the last six months at Cisco, the transformation we've been going under. Explain what I mean by application-centric. You're probably thinking that it's a trick, right? A networking company like Cisco talking about applications but it's kind of explain what I mean by application-centric. Talk a little bit about the InterCloud. It was announced at the Cisco Partners Summit about a month ago that we're building this InterCloud and so I'll explain a little bit about what that is, how that fits into the journey we've been on and then kind of wrap up specifically on what we're doing within OpenStack and how we're contributing to the OpenStack projects. And so at the beginning of our journey was a little bit different than you might have expected, right? And so Cisco has been looking at you know has been supporting cloud and been in cloud providers and enterprises doing private clouds for some time, you know, a couple to three years now, create reference architectures and many of you may have even developed or deployed your cloud on a Cisco reference architecture and so as we looked at what was happening within the industry it became very apparent to Cisco that if they didn't change the big box mentality and start looking more at how to deliver things as a service then it was going to be a different company in several years and Cisco and the environment that Cisco was in may be a lot different for them and they may not succeed or be successful in that new environment. And so we wanted to kind of create this sense of urgency and so when you want to create a sense of urgency and this is important for all of you in the business side of your corporations trying to make a transformation to a cloud. The first thing you have to do is kind of realize that it's not just about the technology. Everyone here probably loves technology like I do but it's really more about the people and the processes around what you do every day right and so in order to kind of change from the direction you're going in a certain you know you're going down a certain path with your application development you're going down certain path with how you manage and run infrastructure. What cloud is doing is kind of changing all of that and to kind of get a sense of urgency around the need for that change. You have to look at how you're doing your organization and how your organization is set up to support cloud services and cloud applications. And so you kind of look at the operation of your environment you look at how you're doing your development and your test how you're going to take things into a CI you know continuous integration continuous and development type of environment. A lot of your processes that you're using today don't really map well to an agile CI CD type of framework and so you have to rethink how you kind of go from development to unit tests to you know production and to you know quality of you know QA if you have a QA process in there somewhere right and so trying to figure out how you transition from the developer to the production side is a much more quick process today it can take minutes instead of you know months like it used to take and so looking at how your processes need to change to support that and then from a technology standpoint a lot of things that are not thought about are sort of how that user experience would be and some of the orchestration pieces that are needed to really orchestrate your end-to-end service. How do you make sure that that service is highly available or that that application if something goes down that supports that application that your application data can migrate seamlessly to another environment that keeps everything up and running for your users. The other thing that's kind of happening at the same time is everything is becoming more commodity and lower cost right cost is a big factor for especially an open stack type of solution and so you have to look at how does that impact your applications how does that impact your time to market and your availability of your services and then the other thing to keep in mind is that a lot of a lot of the technology impacts are slow and take time to make changes there's a lot of investment in existing infrastructure existing components within that infrastructure that you can't just rip out and throw in brand new commodity gear and so trying to look at how do you make that transition is important right and so part of the sense of urgency that Cisco had was you know cloud is basically changing IT as we know it and so part of that is the perimeter is pretty much gone right most of us are using cloud in different ways today and planning even think about it as a cloud right most of us have mobile phones and we're doing things in the cloud all day long with those the data center is changing it's not the same type of silos that you have today or it won't be in the future right if you're not changing the way you deploy data centers and manage data centers you will be because it's completely different or it will be completely different in the next few years the way that people want to consume information and consume and environment has changed to be more of a consumption model people really just want to pay for what they're using they don't want to sign a long-term commitment anymore and so when you're Cisco and you sell everything as a big box and you look at a you know one to three year term typically a consumption model is not something you really adopt very simply and easily right and so we had to kind of look at how does cloud change the way we need to be selling our services and our products and then when we think about the software development lifecycle as things that move from from waterfall to agile dev ops and and the likes of dev ops and capabilities around dev ops are becoming more and more prevalent and in every environment and so we think about how that changes the way you're developing your applications and using the environment you have to kind of understand how those impacts are going to be on your organization and then once you kind of kind of put this sense of urgency and get people sort of understanding why you need to do something different you then have to kind of organize to be successful part of that organization is you know in Cisco's case we created a cloud board and their main job was to sort of look at how does Cisco evolve from where we're at today with traditional applications that require services and you know six to nine months to turn up to you know software as a service type of solutions that just you deploy from an environment and it runs and turns out very quickly there was an advisory board created to sort of look at how do we create this organization how do we govern this organization and then we wanted to you have to kind of make sure that you're enabling the change agents within your organization to make that change because it is a big change and a big shift and then lastly once you do that you want to innovate and allow that innovation to kind of sponsor innovation if you will so this small group of the cloud board sort of sponsored innovation across all of Cisco the second thing they did was they sort of identified some big strategic opportunities and they selected some strategic initiatives to kind of help get some quick wins and drives for quick successes and so within Cisco we took WebEx and have sort of made WebEx a cloud-enabled solution today that's running on on the Cisco cloud we've worked with our partners in the telco space and in the ISV space and creating partnerships and deploying services across partners and sort of this inter cloud model and then we you know basically made a decision that we're going to move with agility and speed that Cisco hasn't had since the early days when they were a startup and so we've kind of turned a corner now and a lot of what we've been developing and what I'm sharing today we are in a very agile very quick deployment type of model we're releasing code every couple of weeks and applications like WebEx make change hundreds of changes a day and no one even knows it they're very agile inside this cloud environment and then the last thing they did was they started recruiting bringing people in that have built OpenStack clouds to understand applications running an OpenStack that have worked in in different environments in the valley to understand the need for agile and the need for developing with speed and agility and then they started removing any barriers that came up from within some of the business units within Cisco. So that's sort of how you know Cisco started that in the beginning started to make this transformation and make this change. The application centric piece came in from a standpoint of it's really about the application right and Cisco had a hard time kind of getting their mind around it's not about the network it's really about the application the network has to support and do things that help that application perform better and to to get from point A to point B but it's really about the application and so part of what we tried to do was enable the innovation within the applications that were being developed and ported into a cloud within Cisco to give them the skill that an OpenStack cloud can provide and to give them the ability to innovate very quickly within that cloud. We started connecting our developers within Cisco to the different services that we can enable within the cloud and what's really interesting about this process is that as our business units started working on our cloud they started talking to each other about what they're doing in our cloud and they started saying oh we could if we we all use this service so if we just put the service into the Cisco cloud we could all just leverage this service and not have to create it and maintain it ourselves and so that by kind of enabling your developers to think outside the box they can start bringing ideas back into your your organization to do better things for the developer community which then turns into more ideas so it's kind of a it's a good practice to get into that and then from an organization standpoint we kind of have been looking at our customers and how do we help the IT departments of our customers you know kind of transform into more of a business unit instead of a cost center and so you know for a long time IT has had this kind of perception about them that they're a cost center that they're slow to change and one of the things that we're trying to do is enable them to be thought of more as a business unit and not so much as a cost center and then the last thing that we're doing is we're kind of creating this exchange of application marketplaces and so it's it's pretty clear that the one of the main use cases for cloud is obviously deploying quickly leveraging existing applications where possible and so one of the things that we've done is kind of provide this exchange of application marketplaces. There's a reference architecture that we just put out called CRA version 1 customer reference architecture and it kind of shows the different layers of you know the Cisco cloud and services components. It's based on you know Cisco UCS Cisco networking obviously but it also integrates with our partners in the storage area you can see NetApp and EMC there. It also integrates with some of our partners in the orchestration layer so we have you know both VMware and Canonical and Red Hat type of partnerships and we kind of break it down into different services layers and the service management and the application the automation of these these cloud components underneath that. So that's kind of the the transition to being very customer you know being a very application centric right thinking more about the application. With that journey we've kind of looked at what does Cisco do to support this application transformation within Cisco. So what does the Cisco need to do to enable this? So the first thing I kind of ask is why why is there an inter cloud why do we announce inter cloud and so the original goal with with this cloud services team within Cisco was to kind of enable the Cisco business units to develop and take the traditional application approach and kind of transform that into more of a cloud either cloud native or at least cloud ready or cloud capable type of a SAS model. But to accomplish that we realized that and this was realized you know six months ago that we had to build and operate a cloud to really understand how to enable applications in a cloud. And so part of that meant that we had to kind of look at a new consumption model that was evolving with cloud and so if you think about the product business units within Cisco they all have different ways that they like to sell and bring their applications to the market and so we had to work very closely and understand kind of what are the consumption models of our users and how are they buying applications and services from Cisco today. We then had to kind of talk with customers and understand how our customers are consuming services today and how they'd want to consume services in the future and we had to work with our partners to see how we can help bring them along this journey with us. And so at a very high level the Cisco cloud strategy is kind of these four components where you have the existing enterprise private clouds and many of these clouds over time may go away but today we still have a lot of private clouds out there. You have partner provided clouds a lot of Cisco powered clouds in the environment out there. There are different public clouds that are not necessarily powered by Cisco but are still you know used very heavily by consumers. And then there's a Cisco cloud services piece that we tried to build internally to help bridge the gap between where our customers and partners are at and where enterprises are at today and trying to move them into a cloud transformation. And so if you think about that enterprise private cloud piece you know you really have things like you know the enterprise workloads and some big data capabilities that we wanted to provide to them. There's a suite of collaboration and video services that Cisco runs that we want to try to make easy to consume within that enterprise private cloud space. As you go over to the Cisco partner powered clouds you have you know different types of hosted exchange services. You have different types of infrastructures of service and platform as a service players and you have things like bushel desktop as a service and DR as a service being offered by different partners. On the the Cisco cloud piece obviously we wanted to try to bring a lot of our applications and services into this environment. So kind of bringing things like WebEx and Marocchi and different security applications into the space. We partner with SAP so bringing like a HANA as a service and different types of Cisco, NFV as network function virtualization components into this environment. And then from a public cloud standpoint we wanted to be able to kind of interconnect the the partner Cisco partner clouds the Cisco cloud and enterprise private clouds to the the public clouds that a lot of developers are already using and not trying to force developers or dev ops to move or change their process which is just kind of interconnect all of this together. And that's kind of where this inter cloud name came from is we're not trying to replace clouds we're just trying to interconnect them in a way that provides you know security some network performance and network policies and and provides this inter cloud fabric that allows workloads and applications to run in kind of a heterogeneous environment. So to kind of go down to the next level of detail you know this this whole cloud in a box concept is where I've been kind of calling this where Cisco is just providing sort of a black box to our partners and and to our enterprise customers where they're able to kind of manage who they want to connect to it through the federation components they're able to get usage and billing data out for their tenants or for the businesses that are using this environment and they're able to provide service assurance and we have the API is underneath that that we're just exposing the different open stack components I'll show you in a minute and being able to provide multi-tenancy and some of the network policy assurances and compute performance capabilities while at the same time providing commodity compute pricing for the service. So from an architecture framework standpoint you know we have this infrastructure component and the infrastructure component is is very much like you saw in the customer reference architecture where you have you know the data center facilities could be any any partner any any co-location spot or any Cisco data center that is running the Cisco cloud in it and it could be any you know enterprise data center it doesn't we're not forcing anyone to use a data center of any type. The network to compute and the storage obviously run better if there's Cisco solutions and the Cisco cloud is built with the Cisco solutions but we have partners that are providing the capabilities that plug into this as well. Above that are the services layer that are all open stack and all open source components and so that you know a big key with all of this is we're supporting you know open source openly and outwardly at Cisco and not trying to bring proprietary protocols into this. Above that is the APIC which is our application policy control component for the application enabled infrastructure and policy management components to build into that and the inter cloud fabric obviously ties into that policy to allow you to kind of have control over where you move your workloads. The next layer up we call this unified platform and it has some of the infrastructure components that kind of infrastructure orchestration and management components it has some analytics pieces and it has a services platform and so from a cloud standpoint we kind of provide the fulfillment and the assurance monitoring pieces out of that out of that unified platform. We provide brokerage capabilities to allow you to kind of select which partners you want to be able to broker with and connect to the some of the BSS components like billing and entitlement and the service catalog sits in that layer and above that we have this foundational PAS environment that lets the developers connect their IDEs that they develop into into this cloud environment. The next layer up is sort of the services platform piece that has some API management and API governance capabilities. It has some of the design runtime or PAS runtime type of environments data as a service capabilities some of the app integration data visualization pieces that are needed for doing big data analytics and then some of the operational analytics to help run and operate the cloud more efficiently. And then the layer above that is sort of this app marketplace I alluded to earlier that allows applications from our partners to be inserted into our application catalog and then our partners can select which applications they want to expose to their users and their tenants. The sort of this layer above this that I don't usually talk too much about but it's important because a lot of our partners want this portal interface or the single pane of glass that lets their tenants kind of see all of their deployments across all of the different into cloud environments. And so being able to kind of provide a single interface that lets you see your private deployments, your public deployments and your Cisco cloud deployments all from one control pane and create policies and manage your workloads from there. It's sort of the vision we went after with this. And obviously above that you have the different applications that Cisco is developing that are running in this environment that our partner and ISVs are developing that run on top of this. And then over to the left you have what you'd expect from Cisco our services pillar where we can provide different services from professional services to manage services to consulting services. So then when you kind of look at what's the service architecture and this is sort of the piece that talks a little about open stack here. And so at the very bottom of this picture you can kind of see the operations piece of the Cisco cloud. We're providing you know within that black box is what this represents that I showed you earlier. So we're providing all of the monitoring all the management all the orchestration pieces. We're exposing the heat API so you can create templates or import templates.  On the right hand side is sort of this the physical environment which again I kind of mentioned the Cisco UCS B series for the compute layer and C series for the SEF and an object store layers. Above that infrastructure is where sort of the tenant VMs would be running as part of an isolated network segment. Above that is sort of that infrastructure service platform that I was alluding to earlier that shows sort of the different open stack components that we're exposing and some of the services that are exposed out of that API gateway to the pieces that we talked about above that are sort of external consumable APIs that our customers and tenants can leverage. So then when you knew the last piece of this was sort of what is Cisco doing with open stack. And so I think the first thing is that open stack has come a long way for those of you who are in Portland last year and kind of saw half of the attendance that's here and the marketplace out here was maybe a quarter of the size in Portland. You can see there's a lot more adoption going on a lot more interest in open stack. But it still has a way to go. And as we started developing and building out the Cisco cloud and deploying the Cisco cloud, we started seeing some areas that needed some additional hardening. Some of the areas that we're working on are in performance improvements. And so two of the main areas there are identity management or keystone and the messaging and message queue capabilities. So to make them more robust, to try to not have as many errors with authentication and to provide more options in terms of the types of data storage you can connect to. Ice House has done a lot and there's a lot of contributions in Ice House. So Ice House has done a lot to take us forward, but there's still more work to do that Ice House still hasn't covered in the identity piece and messaging piece. The second area that we're contributing to is some of the metering improvements. And so there are some scaling issues we ran into with Solometer. We wanted to look at different services that open stack exposures. We wanted to add those services to Solometer and there were some limitations on what we could monitor within some of the service sensors. And then there's kind of a little bit of an open security bug in my mind of how you can allow, you know, if you don't throttle, there's not like an automatic throttling of events, you could actually overload. And we have overloaded those API endpoints and kind of brought down this monitoring service because it got overloaded with events. And then from a network improvement standpoint, we're doing a lot of work today within Neutron and within both Open and Open Daylight, which is a different organization that they're partnering with OpenStack and collaborating with OpenStack around application policy control and application enablement within the network layers and then IPv6 support within OpenStack. And then the last piece that is important is in order to really have high availability and run, you know, your service at 100% uptime, there are a lot of things around the service assurance piece around, you know, API hard beats and checking the services and ensuring the services are highly available and up. And then some of the image management pieces we ran into different sorts of weird corner cases with trying to support different types of images and different sizes of images being imported. And so with that, I want to thank you for your time and open up for questions. If you have questions, there are two mics up here. They asked us to use those mics for the questions. Okay, I guess I'll just ask one. As far as the additional contributions to OpenStack, is there any, I guess, not necessarily formal documentation, but is there any way where we as a community can go to kind of view these contributions or, I guess I'll just stick with that. Yeah, there is. I can get you the location. Okay. All right, thank you. Well, thank you all for your time.


Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel, Laura's Little Library, and welcome to today's video that I'm finally doing. It is my historical fiction, like, favorites, recommendations, books that I've read, video. I had this idea a while back that I was going to do like historical fiction recommendations video or like just a historical fiction video because I was getting back into reading historical fiction. I wanted to talk about it. I just really wanted to get back into it. But when I look back on my channel, I realized all that I really created was a TBR for historical fiction, like a bunch of historical fiction books that I'd gotten that I'd wanted to read or to finish. And I haven't made a historical fiction video since. So I was like, I need to rectify that. I need to just start from scratch. Here are some of the historical fictions that I have read, have loved, and reading, etc. and so forth. So I've got a decent stack next to me to talk about that are all historical fiction. Let's start with some of the recent historical fiction that I've read and loved. So let's start off with the Fountains of Science by Rudy Sopetes. I am talking about this a little bit recently. So this book takes place during the Spanish Civil War and it takes place in Spain. And you are following two POVs. One is of a young woman living in Spain, who is just trying to keep her family afloat, keep them under the radar, especially since their parents were taken because of their views. And the other POV is of a man from the states whose mother is Spanish. So they decide to go to Spain for like a vacation of sorts. But he is an aspiring photographer and wants to capture real Spain. And these two have an unlikely meeting and there is a very slow burn romance that happens with them. And you know, there is a big time jump in this book. But you know, it was really sweet. It really, it was, I don't want to say that it was just low key, but it also kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Like I was just like waiting to see what was going to happen next. And so it was just a very good one to read. Like Rudy Sopetes does a great job of writing from different POVs in different parts of history. So this is actually my first book by Rudy Sopetes, who is very known as a great historical fiction writer in this day and age. So I've been wanting to pick up a bunch of her books, but I haven't until now. And so I cannot wait to pick up more. There's a book set in Romania that I am excited to read. And the salt of the sea has been on my radar for quite a while, is one to pick up by her. So she is definitely one that I will be getting into a lot more in the future. Similarly, I read The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah. I say similarly because Kristen Hannah is another really good historical fiction author that has a couple other books out, not quite as many as Rudy Sopetes. But I keep going back and forth if I want to read like the great expectations or four wins just because this book made me awe. It's so emotional and it's just heart wrenching. Again, you have two POVs in this one. You are following these two sisters in France during World War II. And one sister is very rebellious, very rambunctious, and she becomes The Nightingale. She does what she can to fight against the Nazis that are occupying France at the time. And then her other sister is much more the stay at home mom kind of has settled down. Her husband gets enlisted to fight against Germany. And then German soldiers actually end up occupying her home with her her and her daughter. And so you read about her experience and that was the timeline or not timeline, but the POV that really hit me good was that one. That was definitely my favorite of the two. But you definitely get a good and very interesting mix in this book. So I don't know if I want to read the other ones. I think I need to read them very spaced out because I just can't take the emotional trauma behind them. They're so good. The writing is so good. So we'll say this is definitely a staple in historical fiction in my opinion. Some other books that I've read I have another World War II historical fiction that I've read and that is The Prisoner's Wife and this is by Maggie Brooks. It's inspired by a true story of a she's like a Czech farm girl. He is a soldier that's put into a camp. They end up meeting, running off, getting married, and then they get caught and put into those camps as well. But she they pretend that the Czech farm girl is actually a man so that they don't get separated. And so you read about their experience in the concentration camps and how they do or don't pull off hiding her as a woman and pretending that she's the man. So again it's a very like romantic heartfelt World War II kind of novel. You know it's if that is what you enjoy then you're gonna love this. And I hadn't read a lot of World War II historical fiction at this point because I hadn't read a lot of historical fiction. This is definitely one that stuck with me so yeah. I knew I had to have it on my shelf. Now the next few and some pretty much most of the rest of these books are on my list are not World War II because as I am getting into historical fiction a lot more I don't want everything I read to be World War II books. There are a lot of them out there and a lot of them do interest me so I will be reading them but I do also want to try and break out of that and read non World War II historical fiction. So I read The Witches of St. Petersburg by Imogen Edward Jones and this takes place in like Victorian Russia where these two sister witches cast a spell and they basically create Rasputin. And you see what he does where he grows kind of the where he comes from in terms of these women's magic to how he gets to fancying the queen and just everything and it just everything when you look at the ending it's like wow that's so blown out of proportion how in the world did we get there and then you like read through the book and you're like how is this happening how did we get here style book and it was just very fun very interesting very different take it's a good witchy historical fiction that isn't necessarily witches of Salem but it's still that vibe. Then I have a an Italian Shakespearean historical fiction this book actually has two timelines kind of and that is Juliet and this is by Anne Fortier and you're following one character in modern day in Italy and she's kind of going through and learning about the truth of what actually happened in Romeo and Juliet as in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and so the other timeline we're following is Juliet and she so our modern day main character said to be the great great great etc and so forth granddaughter of Juliet Tolome. Yeah it was a very interesting take on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet you know they make some changes of like oh this is actually how it was even though it Shakespeare says this but that's not actually how it was these people were real this is their actual story and so you're you're uncovering it both in the past and in the present so it's half and half but there are some really fascinating parallels and kind of like almost like a reliving in modern day elements as well as there is other relatives coming in and causing a fuss so if you're a fan of Shakespeare and you haven't read this you should consider giving this one a read. Now I've got some gothic historical fiction I think one thing that I really want to get into and have been getting into um are historical fictions that are more than just historical fiction or historical romance and that's like historical gothic or gothic romance or historical thriller those I'm finding to be quite fun so I've got some books here that I've enjoyed for example Mexican gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia this is like 1850s Mexico like Mexico City so it's historical and it's fiction but there's also this like eerie gothic element to it so I just want to have give these books their place in the historical fiction genre in this video so you are following our main character who gets a letter from her cousin who just married this like rich white American man and you know everyone was kind of like about the wedding in the first place but uh so she gets this disturbing letter from her cousin she's like okay I need to go and make sure she's okay and see what's up so she goes to the house where they're staying at in this big mansion and she needs like the brother of the guy and she's like and her cousin's like no I'm fine I'm sorry I shouldn't have sent the letter everything's totally fine you can go back to Mexico City I mean unless you want to visit but you know it's all okay um but our main character is not quite convinced about that and so she starts to uncover the dark and disturbing secrets of this gothic romance relationship so this had a great twist at the end I love this and I like Sylvia Moreno-Garcia's writing in this one um so I cannot wait to see what other historical gothics she comes up with she did have another one the daughter of Dr. Moreau um but I think I still think this one was better in my opinion so the other two books in this kind of gothic romance historical fiction are a duology and that is anatomy a love story by Danish Wars and immortality a love story by Danish Wars so this is the first book you do need to read this book because this is the sequel that just came out and uh aren't these covers amazing when I have more space in my shelves I would really love to like display these especially around spooky season like the heart and the brain just uh anyway so this is like old time Scotland our main character wants to go to medical school to like be a doctor but because she is a woman she can't do so so initially in this book she dresses up as her brother and the professor tells her if you can pass my exam you can take my class um and so she enlists the help of a grave dicker to help her dig up dead bodies to examine them and learn from them to pass the exam and she's just a strong willed feminist sciency it was so good and there are elements of kind of like sci-fi fantasy in here it's not super strong in the first one but it does come back into play in the second one which I'm mentioning because that was really my only disappointment in the first one is that it introduced this concept and then kind of strayed away from it to focus more on the romance and the like just biological study side of things but it does come back in this one and I loved reading about it I thought it was fascinating so these are some historical fictions that I have left plus it's in Scotland I adore Scotland so so those are all the books that I have finished reading I am currently reading a historical fiction book one that I saw at Goodwill and was like yeah just based off the title and the cover alone that's good enough for me uh that is The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith uh so this is actually not what I expected so I am not quite halfway through but it is World War II and you are actually following three different POVs you are following The Dutch Wife and she has actually been placed in a concentration camp but in a brothel of it so just look up trigger warnings and this book does get quite explicit around those topics so just be aware of that um but yeah so it follows her in this brothel and she just wants to find her husband and get back to her old life of baking cakes working in a bakery and I was like Dutch bakery hi hi I'm a Dutch person who works in a German bakery so that really is what captured my attention but we are also following the point of view of this higher ranking Nazi soldier who comes and visits The Dutch Wife um and I'm really intrigued to see where this relationship is going because it's clear that he's getting attached to her and she has a complicated feeling towards him because she does not like him as a Nazi she doesn't agree with the Nazi party she does not like condone any of it she is disgusted by what this man has done but you know there is a certain intimacy that is happening between them by force um and so she can't help but feel a certain amount of like comfort with him as they're forming a bit of a relationship unlike what she has with her other visitors um so I am cautiously interested in this because yeah I just really want her to get her husband back and you know live happily ever after um and then we also have another point of view in Argentina about um a a man who is taken by the government as un desaparecido so if you're unfamiliar with what has happened in Argentina um basically people children babies have just been disappearing and nobody's happy about that like everyone is freaking out you know your child gets taken like and becomes a deseparecido and all you can do is put up fires of them being missing but like when the government allegedly is taking these children like oh it's just so terrible um but this main character might also be gay so there's an interesting connection there especially with Argentina and Germany and the Nazis also um you know rounding up homosexual people and putting them through conversion camps and things like that so again lots of trigger warnings just be aware of that um but it is heart wrenching at every turn so yeah like I said I'm not quite halfway through but also the blurb of this is readers of the Nightingale will be rewarded by this original and unforgettable tale I literally talked about the Nightingale earlier in this video and I I agree I can see where there are crossover elements with like um how the wife here loses her husband to somewhere in the war and like doesn't know what happened to him if he's even alive or not but then her house gets occupied by a German soldier to get separated from her husband is taken and put in a brothel for German soldiers and actually people in the concentration camps she is their reward for good behavior which is interesting and not something I really heard about the Nazis doing but it's of course it's kind of a taboo topic so I understand why I haven't heard of it but I'm intrigued anyway so this is this is my current read and so that is where I'm at with historical fiction obviously I have other historical fiction on my shelves as I have a historical fiction section that leads into my classics on the shelf so if you would like to hear more about what these books are uh if you want to know more about yeah the historical fiction up here that I've read because I've read all the other historical fiction on my shelves uh I would be very happy to make another video I think I this is a video that I would like to continue with as a series of as I read more historical fiction I can do your recommendations I can do a roundup that is specifically historical fiction so if you're interested in that let me know comment that down below also give this video a like if you're interested in that I'm interested so I'm probably just gonna do it but it's nice to know that uh there are people out there who relate or want to chat with me about it in the comments so feel free otherwise uh also hit the subscribe button and hit the bell to be notified I post videos every week during the month of during the months of summer um otherwise I also have bookish social media down below that you can follow me more specifically on my reading adventures but yeah that 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I want to be the very best, like no one ever was. To punch him is my real test. To beat him is my cause.


Can you hear me? Yes. Yes. Hi, I'm Dave Spell. I just want to say, and Marianne, I can talk to you about this privately, I don't know why the Village Council would be afraid of litigation from a $24 million a year company while it's out, a $65 million a year company. Can I believe you would make me audition for you? You look like clowns. I am not bumping. I will take it all off the table. That's all. Thank you. That was multi-millionaire and comedian Dave Spell threatening to pull $65 million worth of investments from his city if they approve a new affordable housing unit. And the condescension there was just out of this world. Hi, I'm Dave Spell. Do you all know me because I'm pretty sure you might have heard of me. I'm kind of a big deal. I'm really, really rich. I can't believe that I have to audition for you. He actually said this knowing that people were going to see this. I mean, do you honestly think that the city has to grovel at your feet?    This is probably the mentality of every single multi-millionaire. But he is outraged that his city, I guess, didn't ask him for permission to build an affordable housing complex. Now, to be fair to him, he wasn't the only one there who was vocalizing concerns about this project. But lucky for him, he got exactly what he wanted, as is usually the case when multi-millionaires make demands. As Eileen McClory of Dayton Daily News writes, Oberur homes can move forward with the new development in Yellow Springs, but without an affordable housing component initially promised to the village after council voted against the village's own plan Monday night. The village and Oberur had worked together to produce a plan that would include duplexes and affordable housing along with single-family homes in a 53-acre area along Spill and Road at the south edge of town. The village initially asked for the development to advance affordable housing in the village, including an area that the village would later be able to develop into affordable housing as well as more duplexes in townhomes. Multiple Yellow Springs villagers, including entertainer Dave Chappelle, got involved against the project. Chappelle even threatened to pull his business interests from the village, which include a plan for a restaurant called Firehouse Eatery and Comedy Club called Live from YS. Chappelle's company, Iron Table Holdings LLC, bought the former Miami Fire Station in December. Other villagers cited concerns with traffic flow, problems with the proposed homeowners association, and issues with water management. But several villagers said they also felt that the council had not included them in the process with Oberur. So what makes this even more absurd is the fact that they just specifically disapprove about the affordable housing component of this project. The project itself is fine. They just don't want the dirty pores living close to them. Dave Chappelle certainly doesn't want poor people in his vicinity, in his city. It's just, it's morally reprehensible. And as Ruth's action pointed out, Dave Chappelle is a turf and a nimby, which is a bad combination. Now, for those of you unaware, nimby stands for not in my backyard. It kind of refers to these liberals who believe that, you know, we have to do something about the housing crisis in the United States, but I just don't want the poor people near me, not in my backyard. That's essentially what this refers to. And really, you know, when somebody tells you who they are, we should believe them.  What a terrible human being. What a terrible human being, as Justin Bargona put it, Dave Chappelle really spitting fire and speaking truths to power by threatening to take his millions away from a small town if it provides affordable housing to working-class people. Yeah.  I think that that's pretty clear. He's an elitist prick, like most multi-millionaires. But I think that people should understand really the main takeaway that we should have from this story is that these multi-millionaires, even if sometimes they say things that you might agree with, even if they like to larp as advocates for working-class people, they're not your fucking friends. They're not your friends. Stop defending them so vociferously.  He's not gonna be your friend. He's not gonna have a beer with you. He doesn't care about you.  You could die and they wouldn't care. So stop simping for them for the love of God, people.  I mean, people will say, well, you know what, when it comes to at least the Joe Rogan issue, this is really not about Joe Rogan. It's about freedom of speech. Oh, okay, well, if you care about freedom of speech, well, currently, conservatives around the country are banning books in schools. Hundreds of books, actually thousands of books have been banned. They literally just did a book burning in Tennessee. There's BDS laws. They don't say gay bill in Florida that Ron DeSantis just tacitly endorsed.  But maybe that's just me. To me, I, for one, you know, I think it's fine if you want to be a fan of somebody who's famous. Everybody, you know, has a liking or affinity for some celebrity of the sort. But stop defending them no matter what. And when people criticize them, don't bend over backwards to defend them.  They don't speak for average people. They're not working class allies. Like all elites, they care about themselves. And you defending them relentlessly isn't doing anything for the country. So I mean, when people call out Dave Chappelle, and I'm sure people will have a conniption fit when they see this video, maybe don't go out of your way to defend him. Maybe just accept, okay, these people who I previously really admired aren't perfect. And that's, that's, that's fine, right?  But anyone who speaks out against something that the establishment does or seems and at least somewhat subversive, they're just, they have these weird simps. Russell Brand is another one, by the way, which I didn't even know that many people liked Russell Brand that much.  They're mainstream.  And I told you so, but, you know, people didn't want to listen because of cognitive dissonance, but he's terrible. And I'm glad that he's really going full mask off because apparently the anti-trans bigotry wasn't enough. But this should really tell you, this motherfucker is not your friend. Stop defending him.   Stop buying his tickets.  So yeah, this is just an anti-elitist, anti-celebrity rant at this point. But you know, the takeaway is stop simping people. Jesus Christ.


Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you tender comrade starring Olivia de Havilland, Joan Dupré and Dennis O'Keefe. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil D. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. In today's Titanic struggle for democracy and freedom, there are many different armies wearing many different uniforms. There are the embattled armies in the field and on the seas and in the air. There are the armies in the factories and on the farms. And there's another great and unsung army in America, the wives who have been left behind to keep the home fires burning. They are the spiritual comrades of the men in arms, tender, unforgettable comrades. And to them our play tonight is dedicated. It's RKO's quite recent and delightful screen hit, tender comrade. Starred in our cast are the talented Olivia de Havilland, captivating Joan Dupré and a young gentleman who's climbed the stardom I have personally followed with great interest, Dennis O'Keefe. In fact, Dennis started his screen career with me playing a bit part in the Plainsman. We're told by psychologists that when our men come back from this war, they'll bring with them a whole new set of values. I'm inclined to doubt that. They'll have new values, yes, but not a whole new set. Many of the old values will prevail as strongly as ever, and one you can counter is a man's appreciation of a pretty face and an appealing, soft complexion. And so if you are one of the tender comrades with a husband in the service, I think that husband will agree with me when I suggest that you keep steady company with Lux Turlett. Now here's the first act of tonight's play, starring tender comrade, starring Olivia de Havilland as Joe, Joan Dupré as Barbara, and Dennis O'Keefe as Chris. Teacher, tender comrade, wife, a fellow fair, true through life, heart whole and soul free, the august father gave to me. This story begins a couple of years ago in a small apartment in Los Angeles. An anxious, restless girl waits in a dark room. She's Mrs. Christopher Jones called Joe. She keeps looking at the clock and then through the window with a black silent street. With a heavy sigh, she slumps into a chair. Suddenly there's a knock. She runs through the door and flings it open. Joe, I just want to hold you and kiss you. Oh, it's been so long. Yeah. Big baby. Here, handkerchief. I'm home, Joe. Not much like our place in Shale City. Well, you are here. It's home. How are you, Joe? Fine. How are you? Oh, I'm fine. How's it feel to be working for a living? Oh, it helps, Chris. Lots of ways. A year ago you never thought your wife would be making airplanes, did you? Sometimes it makes me mad, Joe. Sometimes it makes me kind of proud. Mostly proud, I guess. How long can you stay? Not long. Only till morning. 6.30. I guess we'll be shoving off overseas. Oh, Chris. Where? I don't know. Hey, come on. This is no funeral. Me, your husband. I'm home for the night. I want a hot bath and a cold drink and about 300 kisses. Now have the bath first, if you don't mind. 75 degrees and make it snappy. The train leaves in an hour and a half. Now wake up. Okay. Hey, let go of me. Come on, kiss. Oh, all right. Mushy. How long have you been up? Since 3. I couldn't sleep. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Do you know what I'm going to do after this war is over? I'm going to concentrate on being a civilian. I'm going to sleep every morning until 10 o'clock and I'm never... Hey, what are you looking at me like that for? Nothing. Except that of all the guys I could have married, how did I pick out the homeiest? Fine talk. Fine talk. Just fine. Hey, come on. We got to get going. Hurry, Joe. There's the train. You still have two minutes. Oh, Chris, I'm scared. Oh, now nothing's going to happen. Look, I'm one out of millions of GIs. Figure out the percentages. They're all in my favor. I know it. But, holy mackerel, I'm sure going to miss you. Yeah, me too. But just think how it's going to be when I get back home again.  You know, Shale City's got it all over Los Angeles. What else? Well, not much more to tell, I guess. Except that I'll be crazier about you because I've been away from you longer. We'll go back to Shale City and get that little place on the edge of town. Yeah, you bet. And I'm going to build a barbecue and we can have the gang over and have a few drinks and I'll barbecue the meat while you take care of the salad and stuff. Uh-huh. And then we can sleep on Sunday morning.  There's another thing we'll be able to have after this is over. What's that?   I never thought I'd ever want any kids until I married you.  Joe, Joe, I love you the way I love you. It's like a fever that's all over me. Write me, baby. Will you write me whenever you can? Chris, I'll write you every day. And every minute, every second, I'll be sending you messages. And remember to take care of yourself. And don't pay any attention to those Australian girls. And come back to me, Chris. Come back to me. Give me a kiss. Joe, Joe, no matter how tough things are, no matter how bad they seem, all I have to do is think of you and I'll come through. Goodbye, Joe. Goodbye, Chris. Goodbye. I think I've been dying for lunchtime. So now it is lunchtime as far as I'm concerned. Wait a minute. Here comes Joe. Joe! Joe! Well, look at you. It doesn't matter with me. And don't answer that. I'll ever learn, Joe, a 14-term hangover. Hey, you should talk. Joe, your eyes are all swollen. Yeah. Chris caught in last night. We had breakfast this morning. I saw him off and... and I bawled. Joe, well, how is he? He's okay, Helen. Oh, and he's leaving for overseas. It's funny. I don't even know which sea. Oh, you shouldn't have said that, Joe. That's talking about troop movement. Well, it ought to be safe here. Everybody but you has a husband in the service. Helen even has a son in the Army. Doris White. Yes? What have you got on your finger? Well, just a wedding ring. Why, Doris, when did it happen?  I knew you'd go and pull a trick like that. Well, tell us about it. Well, there really isn't very much to tell. He got in town for an hour and... Well, it took him 45 minutes to propose and then we went out and got married and I took him to the train. Just like you took Chris, I guess. Oh, gee, Doris. What's your new name? Dumbrofsky. You traded a name like White for Dumbrofsky? That guy must be terrific. What's his first name? Michael. I call him Mike. Say, I've got a wonderful idea. Why don't we... Hiya, Barbara. Oh, brother. Hiya. Don't mean to interrupt the coffee clatch. Good morning. Good morning. What do you say, Barbara? How about that date? I told you before. When you're ready to talk coconut grove, I'll listen. Me? I can't get romantic over a bowl of chili beans. Okay, okay. I'll try again when you're rising so bloodshot. Oh, go tie your hair and come back to skies as a young wolf. He's senior citizens. Well, if you ask me, I think you're leading him on. What? The 60-cent blue plate special? Still, you do make dates, Barbara. Why not? Well, because you've got a husband in the Navy. That's why not. Listen to me. If you've had as much trouble with a man as I've had with Pete Thomas, no sense of responsibility, no nothing. He had enough sense of responsibility to enlisted me. Oh, sure. He'd enlisted all right. He is before Pearl Harbor. He fell for that girl and every port stuff. Only I'll bet for him it works. Oh, Joe, you started to say you had an idea. Well, I was thinking, why don't we initiate the new bride into our union? War Widow's local number 37 and throw a party. Oh, Joe!  Well, we could have it in my new place. That is, I'm hunting for a new one. Just in case Mike gets a furlough. How much are you planning to pay? Well, I'm paying 20 now. I thought maybe for 35. You'll still have a rabbit hut. You know, all of us together, we've put out a lot of money for rent. What do you pay, Helen? 22.50. I pay 18. How about you, Barbara? 32.50. I like gaudy things. Let's see now. That's over 90 dollars. How do you like that? Fine. But for that kind of dough, we could have a real house with a dining room and a living room and a bedroom or piece maybe and furnished. Well, it might work, but we're all such different people and there might be a clash of personalities. We'll have to find some way of adjusting any disputes that night come up. Well, that should be simple. We take a vote. If anything comes up, we'll just call a meeting. Now, how about it? Okay?  We'll say aye. Aye. Unanimous. We'll start house hunting right after work. A new home. And what a dump. Well, naturally, it'll take some brightening up. It's sort of messy. But it's very nice. It's for Frankenstein's bath. Oh, a fireplace. Fireplace? I've seen more of two bigger holes. Well, my advice now is for all of us to get some sleep. We can go over everything in the morning. Oh, come on, kids. Let's look at the bedroom. Hey, break step when you get to that stairway. Looks very tired. Sure, Doris. I'm just getting ready for bed. I was kind of lonesome. Yeah, I know. I know how I felt when I first got married. Oh, it doesn't seem like I'm married at all. I just kind of got a first mortgage on him. Tell me about him, Doris. Go on. Have you got a picture? Well, yes. It was taken quite a while ago. Let me see it. Here. Oh? Well, you see, it was just nine years old when it was taken. Mike was an orphan, and that's the last picture his folks had taken. Where'd you meet him? On the streetcar. About six months ago. What do you say when you propose? Oh, Joe. Well, how are you going to know you're married if you don't talk about it? Go on. It's fun. Well, we were in the pig and whistle, and he told me about his folks and the army, and then he got kind of red and uncomfortable, and he said, I don't feel so good. Let's go out and get some air. And I said, well, what's the matter? And he said, I don't know. I just haven't got any appetite. And I said, well, maybe you're in love or something. And he said, well, maybe I am. And I said, well, there's a cure for that. You could tell her all about it and maybe get married. And he said, well, I don't know whether she'd have me or not. And I said, well, look, and I said, oh, Mike, that's the most beautiful proposal a girl's ever had. And then he got that, you know that kind of smug look that they get. And he said, gosh, Doris, I never thought I'd have the nerve to say it. Gee, aren't men fools? Yes. But aren't they sweet? Uh-huh. Is that a picture of Chris? Mm-hmm. I'll take you to bed with me. Pretty sappy, huh? Oh, no. No. Well, I'll see you better. I better go and leave you two alone. You and Chris. Good night, Doris. Sweet dreams. Good night, Joe. Yes, Chris. I'm lucky. At least I've got a picture of you. Such a nice picture. Did you hear us gabbing away just now? It's nice they're married, Doris and Mike. Remember about us, Chris, and how we decided to get married. I was in the backyard sitting in the hammock trying to dry my hair. Gosh, it was a nice day. I'm all right. And don't call me babe. You know, I've been thinking. And it seems to me that you and I ought to get married. What did you say just then? I said that maybe we ought to get married. Well, if you haven't got the nerve of a government muse. Well, what's wrong? What's wrong? Everything's wrong. What about last night? Last night? You just caught the wrong girl, that's all. Me, I'm Joe Flanagan, remember? And last night, you just spent all your time with Linda Randall, that's all. I danced three times with Linda. And at the Henderson's, it was Mady Sanders and at the Halloween party. Well, you must be, and that's I hardly know Mady Sanders.  What do you mean, years creeping over me? And as for coming back to you, I never left. I'm just trying to tell you that I... I know what you're trying to tell me after wolfing around every girl in town. I didn't do any wolfing. You did so. What happened? The others turned you down? Doc Gunnard, Joe, I never proposed to anybody but you. A fine proposal. Making everybody miserable all the time. Well, Doc Gunnard, Joe, I haven't made anybody miserable. You have too. All right, who?  Now look, I didn't come over here to get into a fight. Ever since we were kids, I guess I've been in love with you. So it seemed like a nice sunny morning and I thought to myself, I guess I'll drop by Joe's house and ask him to marry me, and that's all of his toilet. Well, why didn't you tell me before? Because I didn't know, I guess. Know what? When I was in love with you. Well, that's just fine and dandy. So you've been stringing me along all these years. Well, I haven't been stringing anybody along.  Because I like to hang around. I liked you when I...   Oh, for the love of Pete, Joe, will you stop picking on me? Gee, I never saw a girl so hard to propose to as you are. Oh, ha! So? I thought you'd never propose to any other girl before. I never did. Then how'd you know you never saw a girl so hard to propose to? Oh, Joe, that's just the way you say something you don't mean. I don't know why we're having all this trouble. Because a girl likes to plan on things that's why. For the tight-mouthed clam like you, she's never safe. She can't act like she's in love because she never knows how the guy really feels about her. She can't even get a kick out of it because the darn fool may not be in love with her at all.  That's what makes me so darn sore, Chris Jones. You and your all secrets, and if you...    I am not.  Now, there's only one question up between this and you can answer it with one word. And this is the only time I'll ever ask it. Now say it one word and no more. Will you marry me? Yes. That's what I thought.  That's what you've always known. That's what's always made me so darn sore.  Gee, was Mom sore? Yeah, so was I after the old man got through with me. Guy seems good, doesn't it? Seems wonderful. Hey, what's the big idea? Hmm? Do you stop kissing me? Of course not. Hey, watch out, I haven't. Wait, Mom, he's gonna marry me. Yes, Chris. I get scared stiff every time I think how close we came to not getting married. Good night, Chris. Good night, darling. To return an act, too, of tender comrade. Lux girls, lux girls, lux girls. Why, Shelly, what are you doing, thinking out loud? Oh, yes, Mr. Kennedy, I guess I was. Thinking about lux girls. You see them everywhere you know. You bet I know. Those girls with the gorgeous complexions. 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And now on the second floor, Barbara is about to tackle the staircase. But unfortunately, the staircase tackles Barbara. Look, I'm a commando. Oh, Bob, what a mess. Honestly, haven't any of you ever kept house before? Look, you don't carry them up sideways. You carry it lengthwise like a fishing pole, see? I guess I'm just a well-developed half-wit. Oh, why do we admit it? We've been working for hours and the place looks just as bad. Housekeeping just isn't our racket. But what can we do? Well, we work eight hours a day as it is. If we have to work another eight hours to keep this dump, going in May as well, we'll be back where we were. Will we sign a lease and we're stuck with it? No. We need a housekeeper. A housekeeper? Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful. Here, here. What do you think of the idea, Helen? Judging from what I've seen, it's the only idea. Okay, we'll take a vote. Everybody in favor say aye. Aye! Motion carried. We get a housekeeper. Somehow. My name is Mrs. John Canvilac. Yes. You advertise for a housekeeper? Oh, yes. Won't you come in? Thank you. In here, please. Before I was married, my name was Marnia Boddenheimer. You may call me Marnia. All right. I'm Joe and this is Barbara, Helen and Doris. Girls, this is Marnia. How do you do? Well, um, have you, uh, have you had any experience in this kind of work? I have kept house for my father in Preston. He had a little one. Just gave experience. And, um, references? I am afraid no. In this country, I'm just beginning to work. Well, um, there are a few, uh, well, we'd like to know what your salary will be. My salary? It is like this. I am not Jerry's citizen, so I cannot work in devour a plant. But you work in devour a plant. If I help you, I help devour just the same. Is that all right? I think it is.  So is my husband. That makes us one.  Well, uh, perhaps we'd better talk it over first. I wonder if you'd mind waiting in the... I'll wait in the other room. Well, gee, after what she said about being... Look, why don't we take our cash after the rent and groceries are paid and split it five ways? Well, even that wouldn't be as much as she could make someplace else. Well, I think it's a good idea. Why don't we vote on it? Okay. Everybody in favor says aye. Aye. Okay. Well, where there's local, number 37 expands this membership to five. Man, you're... You're? You're in. Good evening, Mrs. Thomas. Hi, Mania. You're late. But I saved something. Good that I've got a date. Don't you, Barbara? Where's Barbara, you hear? Right here. Stop by to have it done. Hmm, you should wear it like that always. You have very small ears. Going out? Yeah. With a man? As far as I know. You'll be here any minute. Who? Oh, you know, that's Marcy from Don Juan who's been pestering me. Well, I don't think you ought to go. Neither do I. For the love of Mike, why not? I just don't think we ought to start having a bunch of old men hanging around the house. What do you mean, old? He's only forty-two. Go ahead and do what you like. But I should think with Pete out there somewhere on a ship you might at least try to play square. You need Pete out of this. He's a no-good double-crossing woman chasing dope. He hasn't written to me for three months, and as far as I'm concerned, he doesn't have to. In the meantime, if some slap-happy old goat wants to take me out, I'm just a girl to oblige. All the same, you'll be sorry sometime. Why? Well, good golly. If you married the guy, you must have loved him. What you can do is be on the level when he's out fighting. Sure, I know you want to go out, but so do I. It just occurred to me that this is none of your business. Let's take a vote on it, all in favor of me taking care of my affair, say, I. All right. You win. Excuse me, ladies, but I think I forget to tell you. I am forbidding debauchery. Quit Mr. Johnson, but why?  Marnia! Yes, ma'am. I tell him one pound of bacon because that is all we have stamps for. And then I get home, I have two pounds. Marnia, he's probably just trying to be nice to us. Nice to us? He ought. But is it being nice to the other people? Is it being nice to my John, who is in the United States Army fighting Nazis? No, he's not nice. Tomorrow I tell him something believable. Marnia's right, of course. Look, what difference does a pound of bacon make? This joint's getting so moral, we're all afraid to take a deep breath. Man, bacon, gab, gab, gab. Anybody who goes through a black market is a heel, and you know it. Oh, relax. If you want the truth to me, rationing is one beautiful pain in the neck. Barbara, you should be ashamed. Now, wait a minute. You girls jumped on me the minute I came in the door. Now I'm telling you something. I've been listening to this kind of gavel for three weeks, and sisters, I'm pretty sick of it. Rationing? Sure, I'll be rationed. I've got to be, but that doesn't say I like it. Who said we liked it? Let me finish. We're rationed, so a lot of foreigners can have it. And while we get pushed around at home, our guys are out there fighting in places they've never even heard of, fighting for a lot of foreigners. Barbara, what is the truth and you know it? You...why you? You're talking just like Berlin. Every time you even think those things, you're double-crossing your own husband. Oh, I am, am I? How can we mind our own business when somebody blackjacked us in a dark alley and we've got a pearl harbor on our hands? Sure, we make mistakes. You want a country where they won't stand for a mistake?  You're the kind of people Hitler countered on when he started this war and by Jiminy as long as you're in this house. All right, honey. That's my date. Saved by the bell. Phew! Warm in here, isn't it? I wish I'd plugged it. Oh, hello, Waldo. Come on in. Hiya, baby. I've got a lot of stairs, but I'll only be a minute. Oh, this is Helen's face. He's got some brown skin in this corner. Further away, Joe Jones. I guess you know them, don't you? Hello. Yeah, this is a little thick, Waldo. We've been having what is known as a small beast. Small beast better than none these days. Sit down. The girls are just dying to talk to you. Stay and listen. Use voice. Sounds like an extra's out. An extra? Wait a second. I'll go and see. It's free all about the Yorktown. Here, here, boy. It's free. It's free. It's free. It's free. It's free. It's free. It's free. Oh, here's the paper. Bob Ross. The Navy Department has just announced the loss of the aircraft carrier Yorktown. The disaster occurred, Paul L. St. Louis Manor reported missing. He turned Junior Grade hard Christmas in the Fractury 5 teller Avenue. The machine has made Peter Thomas his wife. Waldo, if you don't mind, I guess I want to go out. Sure, sure, I'll go. Is there anything I can do, trust me? Since I was a kid, I wanted to be an actress. I guess I've been building building my whole life for this moment. But I never expected my timing to be so good, even though I'd exit up the stairs. Why doesn't somebody cut my tongue out? But, gee, Joe, it's not your fault. Joe, where are you going? To my room. Let Barbara alone now. And please let me alone, too. You're not very proud of me right now, are you? Barbara, that poor kid. Why do I have to always shoot off my mouth? And I promised you I wouldn't. I promised.  That night, that night we had our first argument. What are you reading? Hmm? No, no, magazine. Oh. It's an article. Well, the United States and a World War II. You need a shine. Yeah, no. Hey, what's this? What? In your hand. Is it a splinter? I guess so. Wait a minute. I'll get needles in the basket. Here it is.  Hmm? Oh, well, here. Now, still in it won't... Ouch! Did it hurt? Well, sure it hurt. It hurt a lot. Oh, you. Always whining. I'm not whining. You asked me a question. Oh, all right. Now, hold still. Hey, wait a minute. Did you sterilize that needle? I might get an infection. An infection? I stuck a nail clear through my foot when I was 12 and I didn't make half as big a fuss. I'm not making a fuss. But when you take a needle that long and jab it halfway through a man's hand, that's no good. You'll scar me up.   Well, how do you like that?  Oh, hold still and let me get the thing out. It isn't going to hurt at all. There, you see it didn't hurt at all. No, no more than if you chopped my leg off. I wish you'd spend more time sewing buttons on my shirts and less time hacking at my hand. What was that about your shirts? Oh, the shirts are fine. It's the buttons. Well, why didn't you say something about it? I did. Day before yesterday I said, Joe, my shirts are all getting so they don't have any buttons. Oh, you did.   Well, you sound like I was making a galley slave out of you. All day long it's just work, work, work. Day in, day out trying to keep the house neat and clean and trying to keep you fed and then what happens? The minute you hit the front door, you start yelling something about your shirts. I haven't just hit the front door. I've been home for two hours. I've eaten dinner and I've helped you with the dishes. I was trying to read an article. You start to slice my hand open. And then I just happened to say something about... Just happened! You've been building up to this all evening. All right? Go ahead. Think up some more things. All right, I will. My suit isn't back from the cleaners like you promised. My socks are in the top drawer again instead of in the middle drawer where I keep begging you to put them. And my night shirt is never on the same hook at night as where I put it in the morning. And somebody's been using my razor and you can't tell me it was the pussycat. Is that all? I can think of plenty more. Including, I suppose, the fact that you never clean out the bathtub when you're through. Ah, there you go. I warned you about that before we were married. I told you I hated cleaning out the tub and I'd never do it. No, sir, can't hang that on me because you were told in advance and you said you didn't care. That's because I didn't know you so well. Now I do.  What's up? What the trouble is? Come on, if you're sore, I'd at least the right to know why. All right. I'm sore because I never get to see you anymore. Nights I haven't been home. I've been working. You know that. Well, haven't you got spunk enough to tell him to get somebody else to put in all that overtime down there? I volunteered for that overtime, Joe. You volunteered? Well, no, I am getting there. I volunteered because I'm thinking about you. You're taking on all that overtime because you're thinking of me? Yes. Okay. Why? Well, you heard the news about the British being thrown back to a Dunkirk. Sure, sure, I heard it. So what? So sooner or later, we're gonna get into the war. That means that, well, I may have to go.  That's why I'm grabbing all that overtime. What do you think I am, Chris Jones, an idiot? I think you're a cute kid. Do you think I'd trade one evening with you for all the money you could possibly make down at that darned old plant? Well, I'm sorry, Joe, but I'm making sure my wife's got enough dough to see her through. You're right. You talk as if I was a horse and you had to lay in a supply of hay. Well, I'm just old fast enough to think that you... Look, you want money? Okay. I'll go out and get a job and we can just stack it up in the bank. Higher and higher and higher until we've got so much, we'll never see each other. Oh, now, there's no reason to fly off the handle.  You'll do nothing of the sort, Joe. I will, so, and you can just make up your mind of that right now. Do you mean that? You bet I do. Okay, okay, you win. You mean no more night work? No more. Oh, Chris, I didn't mean to be so ornery, but you'll make me so darn mad. Don't you see, Chris? I don't want money. I want you. Yeah, yeah, I guess that's the way I feel, too. Oh, Chris, I'm sorry I hurt your finger and I'm sorry I get mad so all of a sudden and I'm so... Well, I won't do it again. That's a promise. I'll count up to 600 or something. I simply will not fly up like that anymore. Okay, only don't get too perfect.  Perfect, don't get too perfect, you said. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson that night, Chris, but I didn't. I fell down on you tonight terribly. Barbara's inside the other room. I can still hear her sobbing. Oh, Chris, I need you. I need you something awful. It's an identification. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. In a few minutes, Mr. DeMille and our stars will return in act two of Tender Comrade. Was there ever a girl in love who didn't sometime or other ask this question? Come on and tell me, Jim, what was it made you fall in love with me? And nine times out of ten, the answer goes something like this. Well, gosh, honey, I don't know exactly. 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So for a real beauty bath, use the soap that's luxurious, yet inexpensive. The soap nine out of 10 screen stars prefer. Hollywood's own beauty soap. Why not get some fragrant white Lux Toilet soap tomorrow? Now, Mr. DeMille returns to the microphone. We wish you could meet tonight's stars in person, but as the next best thing, we want you to join us after the play for a brief chat. Now here's act three of Tender Comrade, starring Olivia DeHavilland as Joe, June Dupre as Barbara, and Dennis O'Keefe as Chris. The week slipped by, and with Marnia managing the household, the membership of War Widow's local number 37 has settled down to routine. But put five women together and something's bound to happen. And it does happen one evening. When Joe comes home late, a strange smile on her lips and her eyes all glimmering.  Look, I think we'd better have a meeting right away. Kids, we got trouble. But Joe, what's wrong? Well, you remember it was my idea that we take this house in the first place? Yes. And it was I who suggested that we get a housekeeper like Marnia, remember? Joe, what on earth is... Well, it looks like I'm gonna get more good out of it than any of you because, well, that's why I want you to know that I didn't know until today. For heaven's sake, know what? That I'm gonna have a baby. Oh, Joe, darling, that's wonderful. That's simply wonderful. Yeah, I think so, too. How do you feel? Well, I guess I'm two days to know, Doctor, but I think I feel fine. You should feel fine. You got a fine baby boy, fine baby. Now, what's the young man's name going to be? Well, I guess the same as his father. Christopher, huh? Christopher Latham Jones, Junior. Oh, what camp is Mr. Jones in now? I don't know. He's overseas, Doctor. Oh, well, he'll have a fine surprise for him when he comes back, won't he? You said it. Well, I guess you and your son would like to be alone for a while. Oh, Doctor, can we? I mean, can I have him? I don't know who has a better right. Here we are. You can have him for 10 minutes. Gosh, oh, gosh. That's here too, young fella. Sure he is. See? That's his picture there. Chris, are you glad? Please be glad. Oh, I know. You were going to be so smart, weren't we? Remember that time we talked about babies? I was busy in the living room, and you came barging in. What's that you're doing? All practicing. On diapers? Uh-huh. Yes, sir, first things first, and when you're getting ready for babies, that means diapers. I see. Louise wanted me to get a bathrobe. Imagine.  Oh, everybody knows. But you never got around to telling me because I'm not very important. Well, there's no use getting upset about it. No, no, no, of course not. Because it's none of your business. None of my business? Well, if Harvey wanted you to know, I guess he would have told you. What's Harvey got to do with it?  It's Harvey's baby. I...  Well, of course. We're going to give Jane a shower, and I got diapers. Oh, wow, that's different. Oh, Chris, you didn't think. Yeah, yeah, that's just exactly what I thought. I think that's cute. You were scared. Well, I'm glad. This is no time to have babies. Well, everybody seems to be having them. The gates is in the hiltons. Uh, you're not getting it anything, are you, Joe? Mm-mm. Because if you are, I think we ought to do a little talking about it first. See, Joe, I wouldn't like to leave you alone with the baby. Leave me alone? The drafter's going to come calling on me one of these days, and I just soon you had nobody to take care of but yourself. Well, they're not going to take married men. It says they're on the paper. They're going to have to take married men. You mean you want to go off and get in the army? Well, mean that at all. I just mean that it may be necessary, and that's why when you started talking about babies, I got scared. Only if we did have a baby, I wouldn't be so long when you went. Oh, there'll be time later on, Joe. I've kind of made some plans about that kid of ours. I want him to have the best of everything, the very best from the minute he's born. You do, too. Sure. It'd be nice if he looked like you, too. Well, having a baby is a pretty important thing. Take you and me. We never went to college. Well, I'm not complaining. But our kid, that's different.  He'll be smart. I hope he's got your brains. Well, then again, I'm kind of like to be around when he's born. And I like to see him when he begins to talk, and when he, well, whatever it is they do first. He'll do everything early. I've just got that feeling. Oh, after the war is over, we'll have the dog-gunnedest kid you ever saw. Right now, I don't think it'd be fair to him. Well, I guess you're right, Chris. You're always right. You and I, we're going to be smart about it. We, the Joneses, hereby swear off kids for the duration. Don't be sad, Joe. I love you so much. I seem to be going around all the time in a kind of a pink font. I'm the luckiest guy I've ever seen. And here he is, Chris, your baby, that post-war genius of ours.  Oh, but he's nice, Chris. What's the matter with you? Yeah, just like your old man, hollering before you're hurt. What do you think of him, Helen? Oh, he's just wonderful. Just wonderful? Well, I think so, too. And you're coming home tomorrow. That's wonderful, too. Say, any male at home? You're just one letter from me. From Arthur? Yes. Fine thing. Everybody gets male but me. Helen, you suppose you could read some of it to me? Of course, darling. He says that he's so glad we have such a nice place that my friends are all so wonderful. And then he says, I just received word that our son, Art Ted, has been made a major. But don't write, Ted, until he tells you about it first. Somehow I feel it's our triumph as much as his, and that I have the right to break the news to you first in secret. Johan, I just can't see. May I? The news to you first in secret. I found myself sitting here thinking of all that has happened to us.  And I think that most of all, I remember that for 23 years, with all our blunders, we still have his respect. That's pretty good, isn't it, Helen? I can't wait to see him with gold oak leaves on his shoulders. I'll be so proud to salute him.  How strange to think he'd resent that, our little son, who used to love it so. Oh, Helen, it's beautiful. Yes, it is beautiful. I wonder, will Chris ever feel like Arthur feels now? And will I ever be like you? Oh, I hope so. Oh, I hope so. What are you waiting for, you baby? The doctor wants him to sleep in Magnus' room downstairs till I can get up. Dars and Helen are with him now. I've got a husband, Barbara. Pete's alive, Joey, safe. Oh, I'm so happy. He's in a hospital in Honolulu. It's going to be OK. Oh, I'll never be able to tell you how sorry I am for blowing up at you that time. Don't be sorry, Joe, I deserved it. I'm just a big, no good thing, but my heart's in the right place. Sure. Gee, I always swore I'd never knuckle down to any man, especially a guy like Pete, who was making passes. If I ever get that guy in my arms again, I'll knuckle down to him. Joe, I'm going to love that man like nobody's ever been loved before. Oh, you'll sit right where you are. You've only been up for a week, so take it easy. We're low-key bars. Coming. Aren't you going to kiss me or anything? I had small like. Can I come in? Who is it? Why didn't you let me know you were coming? I can hardly believe my eyes. It's you, Mike. Those are your friends? Oh, oh, well, here he is. He's nothing. Oh, this is my Mike. We had a slight hunch. This is Joe Jones. Helen Stacy. Barbara Thomas. Hello. How do you do? Well, it's called for a drink, except all we got is wine. Well, I don't think I can.  Well, you see, I plan. When a man gets home, he likes to take his coat off, and this is your home. You must be hungry.  No, thanks. Hey, you shot.  Here, Mike. Here, take a slug. Gee, I wish it was something stronger. Thanks. I do think you should have something to eat. Hey, we ought to have a fire in the fireplace. Well, some people say it takes a Hebrew living to make a house a home, but I say it takes a bright fire and a good-looking man. Here, here's a magazine, Mike. Oh, he doesn't want to read. I think you ought to have a nice, warm bath. You must want something for a boy. Well, all right, what do you want, Mike? Well, I thought I'd like it. A cigarette? Thank you. Food, you certainly can eat, can't you, Mike? Well, I guess so. Monument and stuffed cabbage. Look, why don't Egypt's cook the thing we make best? Doris and Mike will be our guests. Oh, that's wonderful. I'll do abalone steaks. Arthur used to just love them with stuffed cabbage. Well, Pete's crazy about baked oysters. He just can't get enough of them with stuffed cabbage. Don't you think there's a little too much fish? Oh, no, the oysters and the stuffed cabbage will be kind of an old dev and then the abalone steak. OK, I'll make the dessert. Pumpkin pie with whipped cream with stuffed cabbage. Well, he'd better hurry. Now, I'll need some mushrooms for the sauce. You certainly hit it right, Mike, just in time for dinner. Oh, boy. How are they doing in there, Manya? Such an appetite I never saw. Tree-stucked cabbages. And he's on his second abalone steak now. I wonder where he puts it all. Well, he ought to be ready for their dessert pretty soon. Those poor boys get such plain food in the army. It's a pleasure to see him. I'm going in and watch. Oh, just for a second. I'll only stay a second. Gosh, they're cute. Hi. Well, Mike, if you behave yourself, I'll let you hold my baby for his bottle. He'll be waking up soon. Oh, gosh. That'll be swell. Well, I don't let everybody ho- Hey, what goes? Oh, the fireplace. Oh, gosh.  The fireplace is full of abalone.  You don't love fish, do you? Uh-uh. I didn't know where to put it. And I just put it in the fireplace. Oh, Joe, it's been just terrible. Fish makes him sick. He doubles up and gets the bin. Stuff cabbage, too. Now, don't think a thing about it. If we hadn't been such darn fools, we'd have asked him what he liked in the first place. You see, Mike, you're in a kind of funny spot. Tonight, we all got the idea you're a husband. And we've been cooking the things our husband's like. Oh, that's OK. Only, I guess I better clean out the fireplace. Look, I've got pumpkin pie with whipped cream for dessert. Now, do you like it? Now, tell the truth. I love it. Good. Coming. Now, look, kids, I'll clear these things off. And nobody will know about it. And I'll serve the dessert right away. Then I'll make some sandwiches later on and stack them in the icebox for you, OK?  But first, I better get that door. Yes? Telegram for Mrs. Christopher Jones. That's me. Sign here, ma'am. Thank you. Nothing, Doris. Nothing. Just upstairs for a minute. I thought I heard babies. The baby. Just some money. I can't talk to them downstairs. They're having a party. Besides, this is probably. I want to cry, and I can't without and die so you could have a better break than he had. Remember him as long as you live. He didn't need any money. He didn't have time to. He only left you the best world a little boy could ever grow up in. He bought that for you with his life. So as long as you live, don't ever let anybody say that he died from nothing. Something wonderful.  So hang on to it, little Chris. Grab it right out of your father's hands and hold it tight forever. Hold it high and proud, big Chris. Don't worry, darling. We'll come through all right. We'll come through. And the comrade, wife. A full affair, true through life, heart whole and soul free. The august father gave to me. Once again, it's curtain call time. And we invite to the footlights our trio of stars. Olivia de Havilland, June Dupre, and Dennis O'Keefe, with our thanks for an excellent performance. I might add that this is Olivia's first appearance on the air after visiting our soldiers for seven weeks in the South Pacific. So you tend to comrade in real life, Olivia. Well, the payoff is I had to go and catch pneumonia. And the soldiers ended up by visiting me. You know, this is the first appearance of June Dupre in our theater and a very welcome one. Thank you, Mr. Camero. Did I do all right? All right. You were perfect, June. You know, you were pretty good yourself, CB. Well, thank you, Dennis. Thank you. Well, perhaps you were a little nervous, but it takes time to get your confidence in. I have a personal cure for nervousness, CB. Lux toilet soap. Lux toilet soap? How do you figure that out, Olivia? Well, a girl just naturally has more poison self-assurance when she looks her best. I know I do. I agree with Olivia. I know I couldn't be without Lux toilet soap. Yeah, yeah, me too. Lux toilet soap, Dennis? Every Saturday night. Well, Dennis, you've certainly traveled far in pictures since the first time you worked for me. Now, that's the demil touch, CB. In fact, it's more than a touch. It's a very generous boost. What are you boosting on Lux next week, CB? Oh, we have another exciting treat next Monday night, Olivia. It's the paramount smash hit, Lady in the Dark, starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Maland in their original role. Lady in the Dark was one of Broadway's great successes. And Hollywood made it one of the screen's most entertaining and sophisticated comedies. It's about a glamorous girl who couldn't make up her mind between success and love. You ought to pack the house, CB. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night, and tender green for tender comrades. This week, we received a very pleasant notice from Radio Daily, saying that in a poll of radio editors, the Lux Radio Theater was voted America's outstanding dramatic program for 1944. We thank you, and we thank the editors who participated in this poll, and promise that we'll do our best to continue to be worthy of this honor. Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, joined me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater presents Ginger Rogers and Ray Maland in Lady in the Dark. This is Cecil B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood. This week on Friday, January 26, we salute the public health nurses, that loyal hardworking band of women who are helping protect our national health throughout these critical war years. Housewives, too, can help America at war by saving all waste kitchen fats and greases, strain them into a clean can, and rust them to your butcher. 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