Hey, everybody. What's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by our own Frank Stample. He's going to give you the lowdown on the waiver wire for week two. What's happening, Frankie? Well, there's a lot of injuries to go over, specifically quarterback injuries, so we'll pay attention there. And you'll notice a theme on today's show. A lot of San Francisco 49ers as well. Let's jump in, Greg. Absolutely. Let's get right into it. Let's start at the quarterback spot. Last week, your guy was Josh Allen, who was awesome yesterday against the Giants. This week, who are we going with? Well, to be fair, I actually do like Josh Allen a lot in week three. So if you picked him up for last week or if you suffered an injury to Ben Rothesberger or Drew Brees, I still do like Josh Allen against the Cincinnati Bengals in week three. But overall, we're going to go with Jimmy Garoppolo going up against the Pittsburgh Steelers in week three. Look, one week removed from coming back from his ACL injury. He looked pretty good yesterday in week two through for almost 300 yards, three touchdowns as well. And going up against this Pittsburgh Steelers defense that has allowed at least 300 passing yards and three touchdowns in each of their first two games. We just saw what Russell Wilson did in week two. And then in week one, we also saw Tom Brady pick apart the Steelers secondary. So I'm liking Jimmy Garoppolo in that matchup. I really like the way he looked in week two as well, throwing to Debo, Samuel, George Kittle and some of those running backs. We'll get to that a little bit later on. Jimmy G shows, especially in the play action, he's awesome finding some of those weapons out of the weather is out of the backfield or on the on the ends, the wide receivers and certainly the tight end getting it done. Jimmy G's got the weapons. Now utilize the quarterback. You like San Francisco and the other pieces there. You got to like the QB. And one of those other pieces include Raheem Moser, who we tried to tell you about last week. Now, Franky's buying in as well. Raheem Moser, splitting time with Maprita with Jeff Wilson, Jr. Why do you like Moser? Well, Greg, you've been leading this charge for years now. When it comes to Kyle Shanahan running backs, you need to own these players on your fantasy team. No matter where he's gone, no matter who he's had as his running backs, they have been viable for fantasy purposes. And we saw that yesterday with Maprita, Raheem Moser and Jeff Wilson, all having value in week two against the Cincinnati Bengals. But we're going to focus on Raheem Moser today. He led the team in offensive snaps with 31. He led the team with 17 running back opportunities that carries plus targets. He also led the team in scrimmage yards with 151. Again, you just want pieces of the San Francisco 49ers backfield, whether it's Maprita, whether it's Raheem Moser. I like those two guys a little bit more than Jeff Wilson, who was third on the team in snaps and touches as well. But Raheem Moser, we're really focusing on him heading into week three because of his usage leading the team in snaps. Maprita has been injury prone so far in his brief career. And Raheem Moser has been really explosive on a per touch basis. Make sure you get Raheem Moser on your teams. Hell, shout out to running backs, man. They never let you down unless and until they get injured. Thank you, Tevin Colvin. Thank you. Raheem Moser isn't the only running back that's Frank saying you have to pick up this week. Frank, who else do you like? Duke Johnson, who? That's right. We're going to be adding Carlos Hyde this week. It's another Greggie guy. Who's basically stepped in as the Lamar Miller replacement here. He's going to be game flow dependent, but look at what he just did. 20 rushing attempts for 90 yards, four and a half yards per pop. So far on the year, 173 rushing yards for Carlos Hyde. 5.77 yards per carry. You know, I would say that it was a very curious move that the Houston Texans gave up a third round pick to acquire Duke Johnson and then basically not use him. Carlos Hyde 20 carries in week two compared to Duke Johnson six, but the Houston Texans don't have a GM right now. So I'm not surprised one bit. Lamar Miller before going down with injury was being drafted as an RB3 as a flex running back. I think Carlos Hyde steps in there. This is a really explosive offense. The offensive line leaves a lot to be desired. We were all basically writing Carlos Hyde off. We thought he was dead. You know what? What's dead may never die. Carlos Hyde is still here to play ball. Yards per carry looks good. And he's on a really good offense as well. So in games where they're leading, he's going to have value. He's in consideration as an RB3 as a high end flex. Even though Carlos Hyde is no longer a Kyle Shanahan guy, he's still my guy. He got 20 carries yesterday for Houston in a close game. And the Texans are rarely going to blow teams out, which means Hyde is always going to be getting the workload. I like Carlos Hyde a lot, and you should too.  They're going to skyrocket without a Tyree Kill. And Harman had a good game yesterday, but he wasn't the only Chiefs wide receiver to have a good game. Right. Tell us about the Marcus Robinson. Marcus Robinson so far has finished as the wide receiver one. Now there's still a chance Odell Beckham can surpass him on Monday night football, but when it comes to Marcus Robinson, look, this is back to back weeks that we've had a Chiefs wide receiver finish as the wide receiver one, not a wide receiver one, the wide receiver one. And based on that upside, you have to own anybody that is involved in this passing attack. We just saw a Marcus Robinson's upside six receptions, 172 yards and two touchdowns on six targets as well. Pat Mahomes. We knew Pat Mahomes was amazing, but seriously, at least 378 yards and three touchdowns in each of the first two weeks, this is why we're saying you need exposure to this offense, whether it's McCull Harman. Obviously Sammy Watkins has already owned, but to Marcus Robinson only owned in 7% of leagues right now.  But the Snaps also went up in week two. That's what I really like here, Greg. He only played 43 Snaps in week one. That went up to 68 in week two. He actually out snapped McCull Harman in week two. You just want exposure to this Chiefs passing attack. Absolutely. To Marcus Robinson playing more Snaps, and you know nobody throws the ball deep like the Kansas City Chiefs do. Pat Mahomes has no problem always throwing it up, which means to Marcus Robinson's always going to have value. Get in on this offense. Pick up to Marcus Robinson. Frank, there's been no player that I'd link to you more this season or this off season than Dante Pettis. And then he got hurt and we still bought him, maybe not as hard as we did earlier, but Dante Pettis was your guy. Is it fair to say he's not anymore? Well, Greg, I'm so excited that you brought up Dante Pettis who put up a donut again yesterday, unless you count the 16 passing yards that you have. Yeah, it's all right to drop Dante Pettis at this point. The one that you want to add is actually Debo Samu, who looks like he might be stepping up as this team's wide receiver one. He led all 49ers pass catchers in week two in targets with seven, receptions with five, receiving yards with 87, and he scored a touchdown in the red zone as well. You only had 27 Snaps in week two, which ranked behind Marquis Goodwin, ranked behind Dante Pettis, even ranked behind Richie James Jr. But this game got out of hand. You know, they were blowing the Cincinnati Bengals out late, so they probably didn't need Debo Samuel to play late into this game. Looks like he's already starting to develop a rapport with Jimmy Garoppolo. They use a very, very early pick in the NFL draft as well on Debo Samuel. So it looks like he's really starting to step into his own here and kind of emerge as this team's top wide receiver. In week three, I mentioned it when we were talking about Jimmy Garoppolo. This team is going up against the Pittsburgh Steelers. This is a defense that has allowed a lot of yards through the air so far. They've allowed exactly 300 or more passing yards or three touchdowns in each of their first two games. They're actually allowing the fifth most fantasy points to wide receivers so far this season. I'm looking at Debo Samuel as a wide receiver three heading into week three. Debo Samuel has been reliable for San Francisco and Jimmy G thus far. Even though Kyle Shanahan said going into week two, they had to pull back the Snaps a little bit for Samuel, they didn't. They just kept pushing forward. It's clear he's passed Dante Pettis on the death chart at this point and you're right. Pettis is job-able for now, which makes Debo Samuel a starter in San Francisco and a solid flex play for you in fantasy football. One last player to get to you and that's at the tight end position. We're always looking for help and maybe we didn't get the TJ Hawkinson or the Darren Waller, but Will Disley, not again, not a sexy name, but when he's healthy, he's gotten the job done pretty consistently for Russell Wilson. Are you buying Disley in the long run? I am buying Will Disley mainly because he has the opportunity to score touchdowns and if we're streaming tight ends, that's exactly what we're looking for is a tight end that can score. He scored two touchdowns in the red zone in week two, going up against the Pittsburgh Steelers, had five catches for 50 yards, had the two touchdowns, as I mentioned, and this is your annual Will Disley report, right? Your breakout. It looked like he was starting to breakout last year and then he got hurt as well, but based on his red zone usage, I understand the Seahawks are probably not going to throw the ball all that much, but opposing defenses are going to be trying to stop Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf and Chris Carson in the red zone. I think that Will Disley is going to surprise some people, especially in that area of the field. And as I mentioned, look, when you're streaming tight ends, you're just trying to find one that can score. I think based on Will Disley's usage so far, he's actually someone that you might be able to rely on on a weekly basis. Like I said, it's not going to make you excited to do it and it's not going to stand out. Will Disley's serviceable and at the tight end position, sometimes that's all you need.  That's going to do it for us here on The Fan. We'll hurry up. Frank, good luck on your waivers this week, man. Thanks a lot. As I mentioned last week, we'll be doing a lot of those waivers together as we share a few teams. Good luck to everybody out there. And let's really get to Nick Chubb tonight. I'm Frank Staffel. I'm Greg Sussman. Tomorrow, JJ Zachariasin joins us to tell us whose stock is up and whose stock is falling. Have a great night. Enjoy Monday Night Football. And we'll see you tomorrow.


The NFL's kind of like succession and a lot of drama in the front office and all of that's going on in Arizona, right? That could be a whole show and clown show in and of itself and here's I mean It's clown shows. I'm not calling the Arizona Cardinals a clown show. I'm saying that's from it's actually from succession When they're picking a president in season three, okay? Deander Hopkins I'm gonna say it's quietly and granted I was away for the weekend But I hear when things happened or there's like oh this might happen before the weekend this they outright released him That's a little crazy to me and there you'd think there were other options. They could try to find somebody to trade with And this isn't I guess this is official, huh? All right. It's not it's not totally official yet So apparently they haven't put in the paperwork it So there's a small tiny chance that they could make a trade before 4 p.m. Today But it sounds like as of 4 p.m. Today, it'll be official official Well either way the sweepstakes are on for one Deander Hopkins And there's two teams that probably have some interest Albert Breer saying the chiefs okay the chiefs and the bills They were the two teams to sort of engage in talks trade talks for him before this release And I would think that means they'll both be interested now that he's on the available open market And they can just make deals with them directly now I've been in my case with the bills and I said this is where he needs to go They should get aggressive for him and his services their passing numbers fell off a cliff in a weird way and Josh Allen ranked 22nd passer rating over the second half of the season following Halloween So I think we are going to see a lot more teams get involved now that he's on the open market Then the chiefs then the bills and they're gonna have to start figuring that out And they don't have to worry about navigating. What was it nearly 30 million dollar cap hit? I Mean he's not be like on sale now No, he's still gonna get a big deal But that that 30 million dollar cap hit you're you know it puts teams in a rough spot because you there have to deal with That and make room for that or you have to rework a deal and make a big commitment to him going forward So yeah, let's take a look at what some of the teams that are rumored as potential landing spots For Deandre have in terms of space right now go for it Yeah, so you get the Lions with around 24 million dollars to play with the Jameson Williams suspension as people Speculating that they might get aggressive make a move like this the Ravens almost 12 mil Lamar did have Deandre on his list apparently he wanted the Ravens to sign nuke and OBJ Before he signed his extension so you wonder if they're still in play the Cowboys have 10.6 million Trio of Deandre CD Lamar remember branded cooks is there now that could be exciting the Jets only have a little over 6 million to play with That would be crazy, but Hopkins did say you want some great quarterback and a great defense so Yeah, and then the bills and chiefs don't have a lot of money. That's what's interesting there They're the two teams that we know for sure are interested, but they're at the bottom of that list If you that's what he wants what's driving him he wants a great deep into a great quarterback That doesn't sound like I want a big bag of money that sounds like I want to win a Super Bowl Yeah, and I'm sure he's not going to take too much of a discount. I'm sure he still wants to get paid in some form But okay Giants don't have a ton of space. I would like that move too. I would like to see the giant Maybe take a look the bills. Listen, I Still remain they should get him be the most aggressive of everybody, but the Ravens thing It's always for Ravens adding receivers. Yes, they did a lot and they've added a ton You know, we've got the OBJ and Bateman But given their injury histories that are a thing if I'm Eric de Costa and I always like to pretend that I am and he happens To hate that I like to pretend that I am listen And if I'm Deandra Hopkins the chance to get to play in this offense in this new offense By the way more passing less running says Lamar himself, right with the former MVP A guy who could be an MVP easily again and do it in a whole different way this year beckum mark Andrews That's pretty sexy Yeah, it has to be an attractive option to him. We know he loves Lamar, too We know that's one of the quarterbacks. He talked about playing with so I you know again It's gonna be a money thing. They don't have a ton to play with but I think they could make it happen And I think that gets interesting There's another team to me that I think would be really intriguing and make a lot of sense I think the Cowboys and I know he's kind of been back and forth on deck He's worked out with deck in the past Deandre But he had some kind of negative things to say about him more recently So I don't know where he stands But remember deck tied for the league lead with 15 interceptions last year as you said time and time again This offense hasn't been the same since some since a Mario Cooper left And they have a top five defense as well. Don't forget.  They have so many pieces if this could be the piece that puts them in contention in the NFC You're competing with the Eagles. You're competing with the Niners. You need that firepower Who do you guys think let me let us know add up an Adam show Ravens or bills or Cowboys Is there any other wild carting like nobody has the money? Yeah, I mean don't really have the money Yeah, yeah, but you know how the cap is you can always find ways I want out the cardinal side of this right because they if they had waited until after June 1st to release him Then they could have spread the cap it over two years instead They get the whole thing this season which is kind, you know Rebuild mode entirely because that was what we're saying like they're playing the long game here Kyler is gonna miss significant time Which we know then we got the de hop then the cards adding the you know the Texans first round pick They could have two top 10 picks over 60 million in cap space to play with in free agency So we don't like to use the tank word around here, but this seems to be Let's hang back here. Yeah, let's just kick it. Yeah, because again not knowing when Kyler is coming back dealing with that Uncertainty dealing with some of the other roster issues. They have new coach new GM it's a fresh start and Yeah, you have to wonder if this is just really signaling. Let's line things up for the future now. What's going Buddha We'll see. I mean it sounds like they're talking. They're trying to work something out. I at this point You don't at this point trade Buddha Right Yeah, or he's saying get a deal down with it But at this point with what this what this team is like he's still young though He could be the cornerstone you kind of build around on defense when another team is Super Bowl this year Like what do I mean? Where could he go Philly? Yeah, can they afford him and they still make it make it work Yeah, because remember that Jalen hit isn't that big this year so they can fit him in


So thank you for that and we are broadcasting live from the opposite ends in the world again from Honolulu, Hawaii Bishop Museum with you to Soto Brown. Hi to Soto. Hello everybody. And me, your other host, Martin Disbang from near Munich in Germany, back from Honolulu last week via Chicago in the Midwest. And so if we can get the first slide up, thankfully we have consultants and advisors as J. Fidel who rightly so addressed us that we please continue to report on what should be on our mind these days first and foremost, which is the horrible crime against humanity over in the Ukraine. And our exotic escapism expert Susanna brought to our attention that we should address the most recent tragic crime of humanity, the shooting in that school in Texas, where, you know, two handfuls of people predominantly very young ones with who had the life still ahead of them lost their life because some stupid guy having taken their life through shooting. And I want to quote some material that she has given to us and that is that 73 mass shootings have been happened within the last 10 years. There are 40 million weapons and you to Soto are going to address that in your country, which is also my country because I also all the American citizenship on top of my German so I can't sneak out of that one. And in the last 40 years, there were 128 attacks more than a thousand people died, almost 200 of them in school. And you see that little quote up there in the middle of the black, this is a screenshot that the Bavarian local radio TV here had been broadcasting Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut, who said nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day. Nowhere else does that happen, except here in the United States of America. And it is a choice. America's gun problem is a choice. Pass laws that make this less likely. And also we quote President Biden here below as you can read President Biden said on Tuesday night last night, these kind of mass shootings never happened with that frequency that they happen in America. He said, why do we keep letting this happen? And your take on that to Soto is? First of all, it is shocking and horrible that these occurrences are so commonplace now that we just think, oh, yeah, another one, which is horrific. And one of the things which has become conflated in the United States culture, which is mind bogglingly bizarre to me is the right wing support not only for gun ownership and free, free access to guns for everybody. But also, as I said, the conflation of guns with Christianity in the right wing world is goes beyond bizarre because it's absolutely the antithesis of each other. And yet they are put together as though guns were sacred, guns are worshiped. And literally the phrase the God given right to bear arms is something which is repeated by people who support this. And therefore, it's tremendously ingrained with a significant part of the population in the United States. And I cannot be able to say, and here's the magic solution because I don't know what it is. But there we are. And they haven't even done any further investigation, so no one knows why. And we're all wondering, and it certainly has to do with the complexity of sociotel issues that are all intertwined and woven. But if we want to cut the angle back to architecture, what role does architecture play? What kind of negative role? I'm always starting my lecture about school diners in my introduction of environmental systems, pointing out to what wasn't the first, but the one that many of us remember most vividly is the Columbine shooting in 1999 in Colorado. And if you look at that school diner, that in which that happened, it's a horrible space. It's artificial lighting. It's dropped ceilings in the most cheesy way. It's just trashy put together. And the medical realm in their analysis of illnesses, basically in the 70s, have identified buildings, some bad, brutalist buildings that exist as well. And these were not by the masters who invented it, by all the copycat guys who just followed this style and didn't really know what they were doing. These buildings have been then analyzed and identified, diagnosed by the medical profession. And they called it the sick building syndrome that people literally get sick in certain buildings that are deprived of natural elements of daylight, of fresh air, all these things in nature. And on the other side, there must be a healthy building syndrome in buildings. And we want to encourage everyone in our realm, in our discipline and professional to basically go that route. And we have just been befriending Phillip Moiser, who is a publisher from Germany who asked us to help him to write the guide about architecture in Hawaii and Honolulu that we're happy. And here we see what else. This is a precedent book that we're told to look into. And although this is the German version of it, you know what's behind, right? Well, I can see it right there on screen. That's one of those guides that you just mentioned from the publisher that we just met. And I got to meet too here in Honolulu. And this is for the city of Hanover, of course, in German. So I don't know what it says, but you know what it says because you read German. Yeah, it's my hometown. And it says architect Führer, we know is a tragic term we remember from some dark, the most darkest day, not some, the most darkest day in Germany. But in this case, it's meant in a peaceful way. It's the guide and not the one who dictates. And so it's about my hometown. And it features, amongst others, our first kind of force, passive house off the grid, carbon neutral kindergarten preschool that we were asked to do for our hometown. And it got a nice review. And it's basically, if I subsumize it, it says it's a very planet and people friendly architecture, they say it's post fossil. So it's off the grid and the kids grew up in it. So they know it from intuitively. But at the same time, it's a very nice environment where the educators and the teachers are having a great time with the children. The picture I took at the bottom right was when I was doing my post occupancy evaluation evidence based design life cycle assessment routine with Lenny here and the director, Mrs. Sevitza and her designated one was taking over in one or two years, she said, and you see the kids here, obviously with skin color and ethnical diversity, where she always says in 2015, the show called top right there at the bottom right of that one, where Christian Wetter and Siraj Sharif were stopping by. She just had the kids basically from Syria, you know, thanks to Putin at that time already. And she said the more the merrier, now she has Ukrainian kids. And she said, we are practicing world peace right there in its smallest units, which is the families, of course, and also preschools and kindergartens, where that is practiced. So again, our profession has to do with world peace in on different scales. So let's not forget about that. But first and foremost, again, think of the tragic victims. And that's, yes, let's do everything with joint forces in all disciplines in all areas of society to stop this, as Biden here correctly claims. Next slide. We gonna go back one should probably dedicate to talk a whole show about it, but hopefully, you know, we're all a little speechless still here. So we leave it with this for now and pick up from there later. So we're going back to Honolulu, but stay a little bit in where we were last week, the Soto, which is the Soto part of the Midwest, right? And you know this climate well, here's little the soda at the very top left and you're used. Yep. That's that's in 1961. And that was on a when I lived in Boston for one year, we went on a trip to New Hampshire in our 1960 Plymouth and that's what's behind me. And so yes, I know very well what it is like to go through bitter cold and snow and ice and all those horrible things. Yeah. And I want to remember this my was my home, this building here at the bottom right and top in the middle, that was Century House in Lincoln, Nebraska, which is only a block away from Bertrand Goodhue building is most famous, one of his most famous, which is the state capital, as we see on the show quote top right on the left side of it behind my Lincoln town car. And below there is again, is Century House. It was a nice mid century building 65 built a year before I was built. It basically has, it's a clean modern international style, it has a little bay window twist, which was nice, fully glazed. And it was positioned orientation north south. So I had the choice to either stay on the southern side, which is the one at the very bottom, where I would have had to have the curtains pull closed in the summer and have the AC blasting, which I said I cannot do that. So I choose the other side, the north side, which was keeping me cool in that, in that, in that summertime, but we're talking tempered, meaning very temperamented climate. So how was that in the winter? So how did that picture at the bottom left attract you? Well, it does not attract me in the slightest and there's ice on the inside of the window of your apartment. That's how bitterly cold it was and how uninsulated, perhaps the apartment building was built in 1965. But that's not someplace I would want to live, where there's ice on the inside of the building. Yeah, and I had to turn that single, you know, unit machine from refrigerating to heating, right, and have that blasting all the time. Your right, technology wasn't really up to, you know, paste and it was, firmly did not connect, disconnected, basically frames. And if so, double pain, as you can see here, that wasn't really keeping the cold out. So next slide is a more recent development that gets us back to our typology of mid to high rise. There is a new tower that they built, a slab tower. This is all the left part of this page here is the new development. And our quick check is its orientation. It's facing directly north and south. The north side and the floor plan is also north is up. There's a little end in there even provided by the developer. So north is that all the units are facing basically with a glass north, which puts them basically the same I was in my institute would think so and probably could hope so that it's now triple pain glaze and not quite as bad. From my pacifist experience, you cannot make this a passive house off the grid building with passive solar because there's no insulated glass in the world that could justify such massive, basically just opening to the north that I was told and taught. And so, but again, at least, you know, for the summer condition that because the cooling loads are still worse and more energy, you know, requiring than the heating loads in the winter time. Also, unfortunately, some units at the end units have west and east, which presents the same problem as we in Honolulu. And here the sun doesn't even come around in the winter to the degree that would really help you passively solar that but the southern facade here the solo reminded you of something from back on the days on the island that you guys had on the roots of buildings, right? That's right. Well, you were talking about sort of a way to passively capture heat. And it's you build the space, you paint it black, it heats up from the sun. And it reminded me of the early types of solar water heaters that were in use here in the 20th century. When my brother, my oldest brother bought his house, which was built in the 1920s in the 1960s, he purchased it. It had one of these passive solar water heaters on the roof, which basically was a metal box with a number of back and forth small pipes on the inside with glass over that. And all that did was just get get hot in the sun because it was all painted black and you heated up water without using any electricity.  We don't need that. Well, now we realize that's not the way to do it. But you were telling me that this building has a similar type of sort of capture of heat in an enclosed space with a black painted interior. Well, I was hoping so that was wishful thinking, talking, speaking, right? Because I said, it should have that we call the Trump wall, which was a bell engineer where you have that system of a black wall that soaks up the heat and then behind glass and then you have holes at the bottom at the top. So it gives this sort of hot air rises up. So it gives this sort of natural flow. So it's a natural convection heater, just powered by the sun. With we have the Lincoln Journal Star, which is the Lincoln, Nebraska equivalent of the Star Advertiser, both have stars. And the bottom left number nine is the publication of the project. I would say if they would have had that they would have featured in the article. And kind of ironic at the very bottom right picture number, number eight there, there is a publication of some years ago by an emerging talent in Nebraska, named Matt DeBoer, who we see on this zoom in with his lovely partner Leslie was now his wife and mother of three children, wonderful children. And Matt, as we had pointed out in the show tracing back to 2017 at the top right, had been proposing a similar building volume and basically suggestion of very slick and slender slab towers. But they were all basically by climatic in a multi in a different way. There were three different iterations here that if you're interested in that, you go back into the show. So once again, the audience, the readers have read that, but somehow, I guess capitalism, development, water things down to the banal has once again survived here and presented a missed opportunity. Does this make us feel better? Not really, right? Only, you know, it points out to us that this is a national, if not global phenomenon. But again, doesn't, of course, make us feel any better that we have that we would feel better if we would be the exception to this tragic rule of designing buildings the wrong way predominantly in the United States. Next slide. Because I'm very proud of Matt continuously because although he is now the Vice President and great planes principle of HDR, which is one of the largest corporate firms in America, and since America is not going the progressive way anymore that continues the ever since Reagan reactionary, I can only imagine the conflict of interest that he has, as you can tell, being a brilliant designer, but having to feed hundreds if not thousands of people. But he keeps up his basically his virtues and his standards by still taking out the time, I don't know how he does it, to design little things as you can see at the bottom right. And this is his little tradition, a show called Top Right. That was his first one that we featured in that show. And now he did a little new bank branch there, which again is pretty much reminded us of Ron, right? You remember what he was talking about architecture being, you know, being on the stage or being more backstage, more being sort of backdrop architecture, right? That's what he says. We need more good background architecture in Hawaii. And Matt, I think you're a modern master from the same region, Ron being from the Midwest. Matt has heard you here. And that typology of little bank branches we also know from back home in Honolulu, right? And that point out the top three little pictures there. Yeah, right. And we were discussing whether we think this is the Bank of Hawaii or First Hawaiian is probably a Bank of Hawaii, but unfortunately at the moment, we can't be sure. And this was from a time in the mid-century where the local banks were building innumerable branch banks in a number of different architectural styles, mid-century styles, because the economy was growing so much in those days. And they were being very forward thinking in what they were commissioning for their customers. Today, we see a number of those banks are still standing from the mid-century period. But because banking is mostly not in person anymore and is done electronically, those banks are closing and the buildings are being repurposed. But nonetheless, we can look at them architecturally and enjoy what they achieved. Particularly in this one, you pointed out that you looked in through the exterior window, took a picture, and inside is this wonderful blue tile, which reminded us of the tile that was used for the paving of the Mount Akea beach hotel. And then the Mount Olani hotel, which was inspired in turn by Mount Akea. Unfortunately, Mount Olani has lost its blue tile flooring, which has been replaced by wood. But the Mount Akea still has its original blue tile, which is a real signature of that building, and is really a part of its fame, I would say. Yeah. And Mount Olani, there's a couple shows about it with its designer, Larry Stricker, who's a design partner off on Lindgren, both with and with Killingsworth. Correct. So yeah. So again, the the backdrop architecture as to explain background architecture, the background architecture isn't about the big gesture and like jumping in your face and saying, ooh, I'm the prettiest, right? It's like standing in a, you know, back row, being humble and, you know, quiet but nice. And then once you refrand it, you see its inner qualities, its core values as the beautiful, you know, treatment of materiality here and refinement of textures and all these things. Okay, so the blue getting us to the next slide might be also our last one for today. We are looking again into the relationship of climate and culture and architecture. We see here the weather chart and it clearly points out and then the appropriate clothing is on top of it or below of it. And we see above the Honolulu, we see Philip Moiser here by visiting us and here meeting you the first time in person. And he just coming from Germany, he asked me when I drove him there in our P.I. mobile and see on the right, said is it like that, like all the time, like all day and all year and all night. And I'm like, yeah. So and he, you know, if you come from somewhere else from these temperament and temperate, you can't believe it unless you are there. So he yet has to acclimatize as you can tell probably next time he comes, he would be dressed like you are dressed there and I can confirm having known you for a long time now, you are always dressed like that. Maybe sometimes you're sure depending on the occasion when you have to dress more formally, you throw another shirt on, but by chromatically and shorts and slippers, you are all the time rightly so because that's the weather condition you have all the time. But in our temperament and temperate ones, look at us in Chicago at the very bottom left, how do we look there? You're all bundled up because you're in the open car, not unlike the P.I. mobile, but in Chicago, the day that you arrived got picked up by your friend. It's considerably less warm than Honolulu. You said it was in the 50s maybe and felt perhaps even like the 40s while you were there.  Yeah and only, you know, the day before it was almost 90 degrees that you could read there and when you picked me up, it was considerably more chilly. Dan picked me up in his Porsche Boxster that has technology that traces back as you taught me from the 40s and 50s, which is the automatically retractable roofs. So it can very sort of immediately respond by putting the top back on, turning the heater on if you need so, or putting it back in and let the breeze cool you. So again, automobiles are engineered to be biochromatically dynamic. Architecture unfortunately these days, not so much anymore. However, us being nostalgic about our Ella Moana building, that is exactly what it did because it had the equivalent of a top that retracts because they were louvers and they were either opening or clothing themselves. And our exotic escapism expert here in her back culture in her home culture down there, we put in Kiev, which is not where she's from or where she is, but we just also don't want to forget the tragic going on there. Luckily, if one can even say so, unfortunately, the temperatures are out of the freezing. At least the nights can still get cold to the 40s. And in Chicago, the third day was like nominally in the lower 50s, but it felt like mid 40s. So they're still fluctuating quite a bit, but they're out of the brutal freezing. So at least the weather is helping a little bit the conditions because again, if you can imagine you're bummed out or you're wounded and you have to sleep outside. But again, the swinging can also be or is very hard on the body, not forget about that. Because the constant temperature we have in Hawaii is the best because your body doesn't need to pump again by keeping itself cool and sweating, which is quite the effort. Or again, you having to eat a lot to stay warm or to wear lots of clothes, which is quite an effort, right? Just so to remember us of again, why paradise is at least theoretically so paradissel, potentially, and how that relates into the architecture or not in this area, we're looking into the Alamoana. We're looking next week, but very quickly about the slides on the very right, segueing into that, because the top right is basically when our P.I. mobile, which is actually designed more in a way to be only for winters and summers, because when winters come, you throw that hard top on, which I made you do recently for the reason of keeping it for the summer with you and barely driving it. And it's quite the effort. It's quite heavy, quite German engineering. But when you would take it off for the rest of the day, it's just easy breezy, right? So that basically is the way it is. So the easy breezy one you see at the picture at the bottom right, the building behind is a mid-rise, mid-century residential high-rise that has a lot of opacity in the facade, so no glass is going to be baked. And then if there is glass, there is a lanage, and so the glass is pushed back. So we can say a pretty biochromatic building. While the image of the P.I. mobile being ready to be stored by you, that reminds us in not just the color, accidentally, of the car being the same color of some blue in the background, and we're afraid that would be some glass again that might be fixed. And by the way, also you were worried about some crack in the window of the hard top, which you were then happy. It's not a crack, but it's a tinted foil that the previous owner basically glued on to minimize the solar overheating. That just reminds us of the problem of fixed glazing without any shading in front of it. So how that will play out in that building as to start out again when we pick up from there next week, that we see there indicated at the very top in the distance, we will leave to next week. And until then, obviously, all please stay very peaceful, first and foremost.


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Madam President, I got the chance to hear some of Senator Sasse's remarks. I noted a floor chart with my name on it accusing me of what he called tribal hackery. I'm not exactly sure what the rules of the Senate are. I'm not sure that that is becoming of the United States Senate to use those terms about fellow members. But let me come down to the floor to explain why I think we should have a legitimate debate in this chamber about a phenomenon in which Republicans very often are not willing to cast their vote in a way that is aligned with their voice. Yes. I noted this morning, as was displayed on Senator Sasse's chart, that this week of the Republicans who stood up at a press conference and eviscerated President Biden's handling of the Ukraine crisis, two-thirds of them voted against the budget that included $14 billion of aid to Ukraine. I see a fundamental inconsistency in criticizing an administration for not doing enough, but then not being willing to cast a vote to get aid to the people of Ukraine. Now, Senator Sasse's second chart, the one that didn't accuse me of tribal hackery, laid out a very true statement in which a small percentage of the overall budget is dedicated to Ukraine aid. That is, of course, true. But the reason why I find it concerning that members of the Senate who, I take their word for it, are genuinely interested in getting help to the people of Ukraine are then voting against the budget that delivers it, is because it speaks to a broader problem in the Senate today. So let me get this straight. Ukraine gets $800 million, Congress gave themselves a 21% raise, and the rest of us just get 8% inflation, exploding gas prices and more COVID restrictions. Do you see what's going on here? Democrat Senator Chris Murphy is playing his part in this scheme by claiming that Republicans who voted against this budget were doing so because they wanted to keep the aid from Ukraine, thus helping Vladimir Putin. This is a common tactic for the Democrat Party where they'll insert a poison pill into a bill because they know it will keep the Republicans from voting yes, which they in their media will then use as propaganda against them. It's a tactic that only works because the Democrats have control of the media, and is especially needed by them now because they're looking to get demolished in the midterms.  I'd be happy to yield. I was going to try to respond to your critique, but I'm happy to yield at this point. So let me just see if I understand what you just said. So eight-tenths of 1% of the bill that was passed in the middle of the night last week is about Ukrainian aid. Do you believe that the people who voted against it voted against it because they were against Ukrainian aid? So every one of us approaches a big... I'm asking a really simple question. Do you think a single person that your Twitter self-pleasuring was for, do you think a single person that voted against it voted against it because they were against Ukrainian aid? Absolutely not. So then what's the point of the tweet? The point is that the only way that this place passes legislation is compromise, is voting on pieces of legislation that have in it... Where are the pieces, dude? It's $1.5 trillion. If the senator... Senators, I'd ask the senators to direct their questioning to the president and give the other senators the decorum to respond. I think there are three topics. Argue with me if I misread the three topics before us. One is Ukrainian aid. I don't think we disper. And the reason I came to make a speech and you and I've talked about this offline multiple times in the past... Let me name the three. One, there's Ukrainian aid. Two, there's the budgeting and appropriations process. And three, there's the grandstanding that happens for audiences that don't have anything to do with persuading a single human being that's called to work in this space. In bucket one, I think you know that not a person who voted against it, the Omni voted against it because of the Ukrainian aid. So I think it's a dishonest argument. On bucket two, which... Well, I'm jumping in and you have the floor so I'll give it back to you.  I think that if we could put the appropriations process of the United States Congress up to the American people for a referendum, the idea that you want to give it a B plus or an A minus, I submit, you should take that to the voters of Connecticut and try to persuade them of that because I'm going to guess that whatever the overall approval rating is of Congress bounces around between like nine and 15%. My guess is the way we spend money is lower than that. So I don't think you want to give yourself an 86 or a 92 or a 95% because it's not perfect. It's obviously an F. The way that we spend money here is not deliberative. It's not thought out. It's always thousands of pages that come out in the middle of the night and it always grows. So to your point that you say budgets pass around here with 50 of 50 Democrats and 10 or 12 of 50 Republicans, that's true. We do have a philosophical difference about whether or not the appropriations process works. I think you're the one voting on the side that's misaligned with both fiscal reality and the well of the American people, but I didn't come to beat you up about voting. I'm supposed to direct it through the president. Madam president, I don't think the senator from Connecticut is on the floor because I came to attack him for voting for the Omni. I didn't. He misrepresented why some people who voted against the Omni were dishonest by saying they were for more Ukrainian aid when there was Ukrainian aid in this budget. But the real thing we're talking about is grandstanding because there's not a person on earth who's persuaded by that kind of tweet. You didn't move anybody. You're doing fan service for a subset of people who like Chris Murphy. I get why some people would like things that you stand for and advocate for. I get it. But there's not a person who disagreed with you who's moved because of a tweet like that. There's not an uninformed American who became informed, but there is a subset of the people who already like you that you got to grandstand for. That's all that happened with that tweet. The Republic got dumber because of that tweet. Nobody learned anything. I love it. We need more of this energy from the Republicans because we just cannot count on our corrupt media to ever call this stuff out. I mean, they're literally withholding aid from Ukraine to own the Republicans. Isn't that a serious scandal or only when it can be used against the Democrats' political opponents? Sasse made several mentions of a tweet put out by Chris Murphy, and when he was pressed on it, he admitted that he didn't believe that Republicans voted no because of Ukrainian aid. Yet in this tweet, that's exactly what he did. Oh, the Republican senators who attended this week's Biden Isn't Doing Enough for Ukraine press conference, two-thirds of them voted against the bipartisan $12 billion Ukrainian aid package. Do you think a single person that your Twitter self-pleasuring was for, do you think a single person that voted against it voted against it because they were against Ukrainian aid? Absolutely not. So then what's the point of the tweet?


Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you escape. Escape. Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. You are prisoner in the magnificent mountain retreat of the richest man in the world. Yet in love with his beautiful daughter, while haunting you, terrifying you, is the certain knowledge that the only sure escape would be death. Today with Sam Edwards starred as John Unger, we escaped to an isolated plateau in the Rocky Mountains and the strange story of a stranger family. As F. Scott Fitzgerald told it, in his fascinating tale, the diamond as big as the writs. I'd been going to St. Midas Prep School for a couple of years. This was my second summer vacation. I'd met this fellow Percy Washington during the winter and got to be pretty good friends with him. Only I didn't know about his family or where he came from or anything like that. Of course I knew he must be rich. All the fellows at St. Midas came from wealthy families. So when he invited me to spend the summer at his home out west someplace, that was okay by me. We'd been traveling on the super cheap overnight when Percy first mentioned it. I don't even remember now what led up to it. We'd been talking about first one thing and then another. Uh, exactly, where is your home, Percy?  Well, it's in the Rockies. Sort of, that is. The Rockies, huh? Pretty wild country, isn't it? Some of it is. And now you take Hades, Missouri, where I come from. It's been settled for 150 years. One of the first towns on the Mississippi River. Indeed. Oh, sure. That's very interesting. You know, I sure do appreciate you're not making jokes about it. Either way, some of the fellows do and I say I come from Hades. Do you know that my father is the richest man in the world? Oh? My father richest. I read about a man that paid taxes on a five million dollar income. Small fry. If my father paid a tax on his real income, he'd disrupt the whole economy of the United States. No kidding. Oh, I like rich people. The richer a fellow is, the better I like him. My father could buy out all the millionaires in the country and not even know he'd done it. Is that a fact? I visited at the Slitzer Murphy's once. They're plenty rich. Why, their daughter Vivian's got rubies as big as hen's eggs. I like jewels. Always have. I used to collect them instead of stamps. And diamonds? The Slitzer Murphy's had diamonds as big as walnuts. Oh, that's nothing. Nothing at all. My father has a diamond as big as the rich. Oh, please. I'm not joking. But you mean as big as the Ritz Carlton Hotel? Exactly. My father has a diamond as big as the Ritz. Well, from there on it was something like a dream. We got off the train about dusk at a little whistle stop where there was no town or anything. Not even a station. Just a broken down old buggy. Well, Percy and I climbed in and without saying a word the driver cracked his whip and off we went. I don't know how far we traveled. We didn't seem to be following any road. And after an hour or so it got dark. The driver kept right on. I hope you'll pardon this inconvenience, John, but we have to take certain precautions, you know. Oh, that's all right, Percy. Anyway, we're almost there. You're home, you mean? To the place where we consider it safe to transfer. Transfer? What do you mean? There's the signal now. Headlights. Pull up the horse absinth. They've seen us. An automobile. Yeah, but how? There's no road. Oh, it's special build. Doesn't need roads. Welcome home, master. Good evening, Gibson. Come on, John, let's get in. Gosh, what's the body made out of? Silver? No, platinum. Those are emeralds in the hubcaps. And the upholstering. It's fur, me. You are ready, master? Anytime, Gibson. You'll probably notice, John, the exceptional brightness of the headlights. The lenses are cut from diamonds. Boy, what a car. This old junk heap? We use it for a station wagon. Hey, uh, why did we stop, Percy? This is just a deserted canyon. Wait, John, you'll see. They sent the hooks down while we were coming from the train. The hooks? Yes, to attach to the wheels, you know. That's what Gibson's doing now. Oh, incidentally, Gibson will look after you during your visit. Look after me?  Of course, there'll be other slaves available, too, whenever you need them. Do you have, uh, a lot of, uh, slaves? Three or four hundred, I suppose? Master. Oh, already, Gibson? Yes, master. Oh! We're leaving the ground. Yes. There's a hoist up there on the top of the cliff. It has cables about a quarter of a mile long. Yeah, but what for? Well, it's the only way in. Imagine hoisting an automobile a quarter of a mile long. It's nothing, really. As you may have guessed, John, this is not going to be like anything you ever saw before in your life. Well, John, there it is. That's your home? Yes. Why, it's magnificent. It's palatial. It's not a bad little place. How big is it? I think there are around a hundred and forty rooms, but... Father may remember exactly. Then, of course, there are other buildings, slaves, quarters, and things. Well, uh, why hasn't anyone ever found out about it? This place, I mean. For one thing, it's the only five-square miles in the country that have never been surveyed. Why not? Oh, things were arranged. I don't see how that's possible. Believe me, it hasn't been easy. I understand grandfather had to bring up three government bureaus and half of Congress once to keep the place off the maps. Oh, yeah, but surely somebody stumbled onto it. Prospectors, people like that. Oh, yes, that happens occasionally. Then, of course, we have to arrange things. You mean... Not always. Usually, we just take them prisoner and keep them, like the aviators. Planes come here? Once in a while they fly over. Of course, they never come back. We have nine anti-aircraft batteries around the hill here.  Oh, yes. Great sport.  That's father's greatest worry. This place, this whole thing, it's fantastic. Oh, come now, John. I picked you for a fellow with his feet on the ground. And you haven't seen anything yet, you know. This is ownership. And you haven't seen anything yet, you know. This is only the beginning. And it was only the beginning. We crossed the acres of lawn and entered the great chateau. And from that moment on, vision upon vision tumbled together in a gigantic kaleidoscope of color, symmetry, and exquisite harmony. There were corridors lined with gleaming crystals lit by lamps cut from emerald and great halls carpeted with chinchilla fur and ermine. Why, even the air I breathed carried a subtle fragrance, like the scent of platine. There was a white-haired man, pink-faced and pleasant, who was Percy's father. More champagne, Mr. Longer. Oh, thanks, Mr. Washington. It's very good. It's the very best I have it made, especially by Paul Masson himself. Gosh. Really? However, Mr. Longer, I don't want you to think our life here is just a bed of roses. Upon occasion, we do have to arrange things. Yes, indeed we do. I went to my room thinking there could be no more nor greater wonders. I was wrong. There were many more and greater ones, and one of them, I discovered the next morning in the gardens. Hello there. You're lovely. My name is Kismine. You're John Unger. You're a friend of my brother. Are you from the East? No, at least not exactly. I'm from Hades. Oh. Missouri. Would you like to sit down here on the grass? Yes, sure. I'm going east to school this fall. Do you suppose I'll like it? Well, I think so. Of course, it'll be different from all this. That's what my sister Jasmine says. She's in the East now. I've never been outside. I hope you won't be offended. But you're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. Yes, I know. What? I surprised you, didn't I? A year ago, I would have said thank you. But Father says it's very necessary to learn to take things for granted. Sure.  I wish you'd spend some of your time with me this summer. Not all with Percy. I will, Kismine. I will. You may be in love with me if you'd like to. I'm absolutely fresh ground, you know. I think I am in love with you. Already. Of course, we'll have to meet secretly. My parents wouldn't permit it if they knew. Then that's what we'll do. I have to go now. I'm supposed to be with Mother at eleven. Aren't you going to ask me for a kiss? Jasmine says boys always do nowadays. Some of them do, but not me. We don't expect nice girls to do that sort of thing in Hades. It was a funny thing. Percy's family were polite, friendly, always smiling. And yet all the time, I had a feeling that some terrible and golden mystery lay hidden just around the corner. A few days after I'd met Kismine, Percy remarked casually that an unusual event had occurred. A man had escaped from the cage. Of course, I didn't know what he meant then, but the next morning I was walking with Percy's father on the grounds of the estate. Oh, Mr. Washington, Percy said something about a man escaping from the cage. I didn't quite get it. The cage, huh? Well, perhaps you'd like to see it. Yes, it might prove interesting just as a novelty. It's over here. These trees, I think, they're 60 feet tall. And they have roses blooming all over them. It's a rather interesting development by a Swiss botanist. These are the only ones in the world. Oh, I suppose you'll see them all over the country in a few years. No, no. These are the only ones that was arranged. Ah, here we are. The cage. Well, it's a pit dug in the ground. And a grating in the ground. Well, boys, how are you getting along? How, um, how many men are there down there? Oh, about 50, as I recall. Aviators, we've shot down, wandering prospectors, many of that sort. But why are they kept there? Well, they've all had the common misfortune of having discovered Eldorado. Gentlemen! Gentlemen, I am sure that you are. That your companion, who departed without my permission, has been taken care of. He was shot by some of my agents in 14 different places. Golf, Mr. Unger? They found him, then, the man who got away. Well, actually, by places I meant towns. No, no, my agents were over-eager. They were taken care of. Actually, by places I meant towns. No, no, my agents were over-eager. They shot 14 men, but none of them could offer a positive identification. So I'm afraid the man I seek may still be at large. You see, Mr. Unger, it's not all utopia here. We do have our difficulties. Isn't it a little unnecessary, holding them like that? Not at all. It's the only way to keep this place hidden. Oh, Mr. Washington, Percy was telling me something on the train. I guess he was just kidding, but he said you had a diamond as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Oh, yes. Yes, indeed. As a matter of fact, it's much bigger than the Ritz. Much bigger. Well, summer went on. And I was more and more in love with Kismine. She, too, was priceless, exquisite, like no other girl in the world. After a couple of weeks, I kissed her, of course. And I was really in love for the first time. Yeah, I should have known. I should have put two and two together when Percy's father showed me the cage. But I didn't. Until one morning, late in the summer, I slipped off with Kismine to the Rose Gardens. Kismine, I think we ought to elope. I don't know. It would be much nicer to be married here. But then it would be much more romantic to elope. All the Sunday supplements would write stories about it. Oh, Kismine. I knew an heiress from Omaha once. But I don't think you'd like her. She visited my sister here.  Well, yes, we've had a few. Oh, wasn't your father ever afraid they might talk outside? Well, to some extent. But let's talk about something more pleasant. What's unpleasant about it? I grew quite fond of some of them. You mean they told? And your father? They didn't get a chance to. Father had to be sure. Murder? What else could we do? In the cage, they'd be a constant reproach to us. And Father does it so nicely. They're always drugged in their sleep. And we tell their families they died of scarlet fever and butte. I'm not sure what effect that has on the statistics there. Of all the horrible... No, it's not. After all, it would be terribly boring here without ever having anybody. My father and mother have sacrificed some of their best friends. That's what they planned to do with me then. See, now you're sort of depressed. I knew you would be. And we could have had such fun. Fun? Couldn't you try to forget it and be nice to me until you're put away? It's only for two or three weeks. You'd go on this way kissing and talking about love when you know I'm not much better than a corpse? You're not a corpse. You're not. I won't have you saying I kissed a corpse. That wasn't what I said. You did too. I did not. You said that... Just a moment. Father. Who kissed a corpse? Nobody. We were joking. You two haven't any business here anyway. Kismine, you go read. Go play golf. And don't let me find you here when I come back. Yes, Father. Well, good day, children. You see, now I know that you've spoiled it all. You don't really love me. Kismine, you... Oh, what's the use? Look, Kismine, why would it be so terrible if anyone found out about this place? Why, it's on account of the diamond, of course. But you'd better ask Percy. I'm always getting things messed up. I will ask him. And another thing. I'm getting out of here tonight if I have to dig through the mountains. I'm going back east. Take me with you. Oh, no. Why not? Your father wouldn't permit it. If you won't take me, I'll go tell him I'm in love and want to marry you. You can't do that. He'd bump me off this afternoon. Please take me, darling. And we'll be terribly poor and very happy. And I'll cook things for you. Herbs and berries and stuff, won't that be fun?  My head was really in a whirl. This whole thing was fantastic. And so was the family. Even Kismine, I... I couldn't think of anything to do, but I rushed to see Percy. John, why didn't you ask me before? Because I thought you were kidding all the time. I know. You wouldn't have believed me if I had told you. I'm ready to believe anything now. Well, it was grandfather who started the whole thing. Purely an accident. He came out here from Virginia and stumbled onto it. Under what? The Diamond, of course. Grandfather spent two years going around to different cities of the world selling bits of it. And then he started building this place. First he started putting his money in jewels, and then he found the radium took up much less space. Father has carried on since, you know. But why the secrecy? Oh, it just wouldn't do if anyone found out. Ruin the economy of the world. The thing's too big. This thing has been going on for three generations. The cage, this thing of inviting friends. Oh, yes. You see, there wasn't really any danger before airplanes. There what worry is. And you knew when you invited me here what would happen. Please, John, I thought you'd be more sensible about it. After all, you can see my position. Yeah. Where is it? Where do you keep this diamond that's caused so cock-eyed much trouble? I thought you'd guessed. You've noticed the hill the chateau stands on. Oh, yes, but it contains a cubic mile. And except for thin covering of dirt, it's one big solid diamond. It was nearly midnight. I didn't know what awakened me, but all of a sudden I was staring across the patches of moonlight spotting the ermine carpet of my bedroom, staring at three slaves I'd never seen before. They just slipped inside the door and stood there, each with a vicious length of shiny copper wire. The official executioners. I lay there on the bed watching them counting heartbeats, not daring to move, not daring not to move. They didn't know I'd awakened. They began edging across the room.  Hurry. I took one long deep breath, the first in several moments. Then I was out of the bed in an instant, throwing on my clothes and dashing through the long crystal corridor to Kismine's room. Kismine, are you awake? Jack, over here by the window.  If you mean three of your father's slaves. No, airplanes. Airplanes, so that's what it is. At least a dozen. I saw them crossing against the moon. Look, they're circling way over there. You think they're here on purpose? Oh yes, they dropped warnings to Father. It's that man who got away from the cage, you know. Good for him. Yes, wasn't he clever? I think we'll open up on them any second now. Open up? Yes, our anti-aircraft. This is thrilling. Thrilling? Oh, look, they're in range now. Bravo! Bravo! Kismine, get away from that window! What happened? Did you see that? Yes, and we've got to get out of here. Can't you understand they'll bomb the chateau next? Oh, they're the little grove across on the side of the mountain. We always keep one of the cars there. We'll have a nice view of everything. A nice view? Kismine, you don't seem to understand. They mean business. They're out to finish off you and your whole family. It all seems so silly. Why, when you come right down to it, you've never even met us. Morning yet, John. Seems to be getting lighter. It's quieter, too. It's your guns. They're knocked out, every last one of them. Well, it won't be long now. Seems such a shame. The family put so much work on the place. Everything's always been so pleasant. Yeah. You'd better get some sleep, Kismine.  You'll come back. Yes, Kismine. I'll come back. At the edge of the wood, I stopped and looked out across the valley toward the wrecked chateau standing on its diamond hill in the center. The bombing had stopped. The planes droned over the far rim of the plateau seeking some sort of formation. And then, on a small knoll just below me, three men appeared suddenly from the underbrush. The first one strode imperiously ahead and the other two bore a heavy burden between them. It was Mr. Washington and two of the slaves. All right. This is far enough. We'll stop here. Now, hoist it up. The burden they held up to the heavens was an immense diamond. Up there. I could see no one else anywhere in view. I want you to understand this is only a sample. I'll give you a thousand cut as fine set in pedestals of platinum. And I'll build you a tower a thousand feet high cast of solid gold. And on the top of it, I'll put one diamond a hundred feet across. A thought began to dawn on me, but I couldn't believe it. I'll letter your name on the temple in emeralds and I'll see that the whole world worships at its base. All you have to do is to make everything the way it was before. Mr. Washington was offering a bribe to God. He stopped talking, waiting for an answer. And then, out of those same silent heavens, blossomed the white puffs of parachutes. The man who tried to bribe God looked up and saw them, became old in an instant and turning with lowered head walked down the path toward the chateau. With sudden premonition, I whirled and headed for the spot where I left Kismine. Kismine and the car that needed no roads. Haven't we gone far enough, John? I suppose. We're ten miles from the chateau. It's all so hectic, this rushing about and losing sleep and everything. Hand me those field glasses. Here they are. Can you see anything? No. Oh, wait. What is it? It's your father and mother and Percy. They're going into a tunnel down below the chateau. Wait, I remember now. The mountain's wired. Some kind of atom bomb. Atom? You mean atomic bomb? That's it. Father always said it would disintegrate the whole works, diamond and all. Of course, he only regarded it as a last resort. So he'd rather have it like that. They're all inside the tunnel now. The paratroopers are moving in. I don't suppose there's really anything to be done about it now. And there wasn't. I keep thinking about things the way they were. It was all so pleasant. I don't suppose it will ever be exactly like that again. Not ever, Gizmine. And maybe it never was. You know, youth is a time for dreaming and dreams die too. We'll probably have to take in washing. But of course, we'll be very happy. What will we do, John? Do? Oh, we can love a while underneath the stars. That's a form of divine drunkenness we can all try. And then there may be other diamonds in the world. Who knows? And even though it's a shabby gift, there's always disillusion.  Let's go to sleep. Escape, produced and directed by Norman MacDonald, brought to you Sam Edwards in The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The radio adaptation was by Les Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John Dunkel. Featured in the cast were Nina Clowden as Gizmine and Hugh Thomas as Percy with John Daener and Jack Krushen. The special musical score was conducted by Leith Stevens. One week from tonight at this same broadcast time, CBS will hail the return of the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. The delightful situation comedy show, which began its career on CBS four and a half years ago. As they take their plays among the stars on CBS's 10 Great Sunday Night Shows, Ozzie and Harriet will celebrate their homecoming by presenting to their CBS audience their own sons, David and Ricky. So remember to be here next Sunday evening, April 3rd, as Ozzie and Harriet return over most of these same CBS network stations at 6.30 Eastern Standard Time. Now, stay tuned for the Jack Benny show, which follows immediately. This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.