okay we're welcome everybody thank you for joining us for our all-day movie workshop and uh today we're joined by our friends from our online retreat weekend uh dependence on god and uh we also have our um our all-day movie workshop people just attending for the all-day movie workshop so welcome to you all um i'm peter i'll be your host today and i'll pass it over to you now david thank you peter hi everyone welcome welcome you're in for a real treat today sometimes i say hold on hold on to your hat because cancass is going bye bye today you're gonna really have to hold on to your hat because the cosmos is going bye bye this this is a very big treat today and as usual it's come about because of the themes that you voted on during the week and uh you voted on five themes that are so deep so penetratingly deep that i think today you will have an experience that you've been praying for for a long time because this movie is so deep and uh the main actor in the movie is is one that we're very familiar with nicolas cage has been in our quantum movie next he's been in the family man undoing the the family self concept which has got to be is one of the stickiest self concepts there is there's a lot of guilt in the family concept and now today he will give us a performance in this movie where he is going to play a scientist a canastrophysicist who who has quite a curiosity about the world and like so many people who walk the planet we what we consider our personality self or the person is is a construct that represents a self concept image that god did not create because god creates in pure spirit so the personality self and as eric mentioned during his concert and the world that surrounds the the personality the cosmos it's all kind of like a cosmic self image that was made to cover over the light to cover over our christ self which is pure spirit in the story of the bible in genesis adam and eve they're dealing with a situation where they find themselves naked and then to cover their private parts they use a fig leaf so i always say that the cosmos of time and space is a cosmic fig leaf to hide from god time and space is wearing a big cosmic fig leaf to to guard against the light so first off i'm going to read the the five themes that we're going to pray for for an experience to end our doubting around these five themes and they are amazing coming in first in the combined pole of of the english and the spanish poles number one was recognizing i've been given everything i need to be happy right now isn't that an experience that you would want but the awareness the recognition that you've been given everything to be happy right now that there's nothing else needed the future is not needed for this decision and the presence of love is right here with us and god loves us so much that jesus says you have no idea how much god loves you he loves you more than you can even imagine it's unfathomable how loved we are and kirsten and frances were talking about this in their opening session and then eric was talking about and singing about this love this huge huge love that's available this moment and it does require the recognition that you have everything that you need to be happy right now now that's a pretty tall order for a movie uh you know it's one thing to watch a movie but to watch a movie that will take you toward the experience that you have everything that you need to be happy right now that is a tall order but as usual jesus delivers this movie definitely delivers it will take you in and it will carry you the spirit within you will carry you into the light if you really just let yourself go with the light this is quite a journey the second theme keeping the faith through the healing process that's that's huge too i mean all of us know when we have gone through upsets whether they seem to be physical difficulties or psychological difficulties jesus reminds us it's it's a psychological difficulty the ego is a psychological difficulty and yet keeping the faith in in the face of of experiences of pain and discomfort of stress of strain of anxiety of fear of through rage and and anger keeping the faith in the healing process is huge too so again that's a very tall order for a movie but i think you'll find as we go through this movie that the light bulbs are going to go off the insights in your mind that will strengthen your faith in an enormous way your faith is going to undergo a huge expansion today why because once you start to understand the big picture of what time and space are really about once you start to get beneath the surface of things once you get down deep enough you can start to see that time and space are a trick to keep you from knowing who you are as the living christ and this movie goes a long way at at unveiling the trick so that's huge third one transcending the temptation to understand anything i mean a lot of times when people pick up a course of miracles they're curious and maybe they pop up in the text and they might go whoa whoa what is this and then when they glance at the our cat is having some fun now ready to do the playful thing here once they glance at the workbook lesson they look at the first workbook lesson that jesus gives nothing i see means anything and right away when you practice that first lesson you know you're on for a ride you know if that's the first lesson of 365 nothing i see means anything you know you are in for the ride of a lifetime with this book and with jesus that's right you're jumping down the rabbit hole and you're not holding on to the branches you are just like alice and alice in wonderland you are dropping down there and all you're saying as you go off the cliff down the rabbit hole with jesus is holy jesus god help me what am i getting myself into because right we're conditioned by time and space we've tried it we tried it on our own we tried to have a separate will apart from god and i guess do i have a hand do i have an amen from the choir that it has not worked you know we we have not found bliss unending happiness joy without end in in time and space we need a rabbit hole to go down with some really strong guidance to help us pierce through the veil of separation and come into the light we want to go running to the light so transcending the temptation to understand anything eric was talking about that last night that's how the journey goes you know he's got a career hypnosis good hypnotherapy career he's got a house mortgage credit card that tick tick tick that's standard for an american life that's an american life down there in what is it texas down in texas i tell you that's what you do you get the house you get the credit cards you get the mortgage debt and then you get your career to try to handle all that debt and it's hypnotherapy so you know that sounds pretty good and and then somehow the wheels start to fall off you know where you go what is the purpose of all this you know i you do the standard thing and the standard thing doesn't work and you say wait a minute that's what they told me to do and then you do it and you don't find bliss you find stress instead of and that's a that's a nasty trick so basically eric was sharing about a life of trust yes kirsten myself eric uh francis we all talk about our life of trust where we we checked it all we checked it all i mean some of us had a lot of education i think francis and i had like eight to years of maybe 10 maybe 11 for her of education we've we've had done it from trying things experimenting on things in the world we tried it on our own but deep inside we've known we'd be back to set things straight we're gonna set things straight today we are going for the light and this is no powder puff movie if you make it through this movie and you're still vibrating happiness then you know you you're really getting closer to the light and the thing is we we try to understand things from the past learning and the past is made by the ego so that's why we can't understand anything based on our past learning we need faith we need trust we need guidance we're we're not leaving time and space without those three we need them in the strongest way number four transcending the fear of communication and future consequences again i think most all of you can relate that was my life in time and space david afraid of future consequences what's going to happen to me what am i going to do with my life where is this going to lead will i just grow old and die like all the previous ones or will i find eternal life like jesus has promised us you know it's worth going for i'll tell you eternal life if jesus says it's possible i would say a chances of eternal life 100 percent if if jesus can do it we can do it we're no different you know we were all created by god so if jesus can wake up why not uh it's inevitable why delay so transcending the fear of communication and future consequences we really have to transcend the fear of communication in our in our relationships because as long as we're going around walking on eggshells always trying to please everybody out rock the boat just trying to squeak by trying to to just get by without disturbing too many people that's not going to work or disturbing the the irs uh or disturbing the government there you go i see the petition you know we're not we're not people pleasing anymore we're not messing around here our mind is too powerful to play little you know we can't keep playing this game of littleness like we're a victim of the world by these corporations or these people outside of us because they're not they're not outside of us they're just thoughts and finally finding joy in serving the whole versus personal inspiration i think a lot of us have tried the personal inspiration thing you know where it's like we've tried hobbies we've tried our interests we've pursued our different philosophies our theologies we've pursued success as the world judges it we tried the possession game with with houses and cars and bank accounts and with people oh that was a disaster worst worst game in the world is try to play the possession game with people my husband my wife my children or country my country patricia you've got two there so you you've got a double my going on you know we have tried to play the possession game and love does not possess we've been so mistaken to think that we could possess anything i we have a cat here you can't possess this cat many have tried but the iso shows the impossibility of being possessed every day by his presence you know he's like he's like no you might as well give up on that game that's not going anywhere at all now serve me my milk uh so basically what we're finding is if you go for the joy of the whole you're going for the joy inside of you that comes from god and that's why it's assured joy is absolutely assured and for those of you that are part of our dependency on god retreat that's the key is is following our intuition following the guidance without exception we're not here about trying to play it safe and and you know follow a little guidance occasionally we need to go for it we need to put the pedal to the metal we need to go really all in both feet in like the old song hokey pokey but you got to put both feet in you can't put one foot in serving god and serving jesus is not a one foot matter yeah you know you put one for then is nothing so so what else did we got here well i would say i i was so excited today when when i woke up that i i took a glance at i thought to myself who made this movie i mean i mean i knew nicolas gauge is in it but what are the companies that made this movie it was a collaboration between two movie companies and here's what their names are summit everybody know what a summit is summit is the top of the mountain it's god god is the summit we're we're learning dependency on god because god is the summit that's right we're not interested in climbing to the top of mount everest we're not interested in finding where the summit is on the planet we know the summit is our source so that was one of the companies that combined and guess the other company was called escape artist so this is a movie that will help you escape from time and space i'm not talking escape from your country escape from your interpersonal relationships i'm talking escape from the cosmos of time and space it's so deep it's so deep it's so wonderful you're just going to love it so who's in what are our characters what's the movie set up well we have nicolas cage is playing john john's a scientist he's an astrophysicist and he has a son named calib and he's a single father in this movie and basically his wife passed away in because she was in a in a hotel and at night time the hotel caught fire and she passed away in her sleep due to smoke inhalation so so john's a single father and john made some conclusions he didn't even feel it like psychically when his wife was passing away he he thought he maybe he should have felt something but he was doing he was doing leave blowing in his yard when his wife passed away and he didn't even feel it talk about detached from your mind and that detached from your emotion so john in this movie he's a single father this is not parma hansa yoga nanda now parma hansa yoga nanda when his mother was passing away oh he knew it he felt it he was so connected that he felt it even when his mother wasn't even close she was living in another she was in another city and he felt it also we have a a single mother in this called diana and and her daughter abby and this single mother and this single father are going to join together in a collaboration of adventure and discovery and that's important because through relationship and through collaborating and joining is how we find the source that's what uh kirsten and frances were talking about that that you literally find the source through your brother through your sister through the willingness to join and collaborate to see no personal interest to see no differences in your purpose those in this world who share the same purpose will find happiness because the purpose is given by god it and the the purpose is through the holy spirit and it is our right mind it is our healing it is our atonement it is our resurrection those who join in the resurrection of the mind shall see the light and shall never know death also we have a character in here called lucinda lucinda is a little girl that lived 50 years prior and she was part of a classroom her teacher was miss taylor and they had an assignment to write down um something for future generations so she's basically kind of like helen shuckman was she's lucinda is like a scribe she's to the world she looks a little strange and quirky but that's the way scribes are you know all scribes you know it's it's it's not an easy thing when you're scribing something that is beyond this realm of time and space and from that higher source and so lucinda uh she's kind of like a more of a modern day nastradamus she she's going to do an assignment for her class for miss taylor and that is to write down something for future generations and she's going to scribe something that's very unique and when you see what she's going to just she's going to scribe it's very much like a it's a prophecy not not a general prophecy a very specific specific prophecy over five decades of every major disaster and cataclysm on the planet uh how many people are killed the location of the the disaster longitude latitude it's it's almost like it's like the akashic records it's like the book of life it's like the uh the script written down into specifics of everything that will occur over over a span of of five decades and then it's buried in a time capsule that's part of the class assignment so john the astrophysicist will find that his son has been given uh lucinda's prophecy and and for an astrophysicist this is a big stretch you know even helen schuchman and bill fedford the course was a big stretch for them believe me they were research psychologist taking down the notes of jesus christ for seven years that's a stretch on your self-concept in a big way for helen it was a major stretch because she was kind of atheistic actually so you know taking down seven years of notes from jesus christ for an atheist is not exactly a walk in the park but lucinda she she delivers her prophecy it's discovered in the time capsule and then john the astrophysicist and his son calib uh calib gets it and then john it's going to change his life forever why does it change john's life well when his wife passed away in the fire basically he he concluded as many scientists have concluded that the world was just a sequence of random acts random situations random events and occurrences that there was no rhyme or reason there was no pattern there it was just a world of disconnected events and oftentimes that's part of the scientific mind that's why scientists use the scientific method that's why the empirical method of researching in the world and testing things in the world to try to find the results and it's basically that's how newtonian physics and newtonian science works most scientists are still in the newtonian mode they are not mystics uh scientists generally are not saints because they aren't even sure if there is god or if there is some kind of force that is underneath the world but the other thing is to many scientists it seems like the world is a random pattern of events his wife passed away in a fire he didn't even feel it at the time it happened and he just was bewildered depressed shocked and he just basically reused that whole event to reinforce that this is a basically a random and chaotic world jesus is showing us that this is not the case at all and and so john will go on an adventure to start to basically unravel his his scientific empirical mind and even though he's into astrophysics even that will be used as part of his surrender to this delight to the spirit john is a scientist and his father is a minister we have john kessler and and reverend kessler that's his father and he doesn't get along kind of like the what the bleep movies and down the rabbit hole science and religion are seem to be at odds with each other they seem to be different completely different perspectives yet of course if you hang around our teachings you'll know that quantum physics and and quantum science transpersonal person psychology and the premial wisdom throughout the ages is not at odds with god or spirit and science and spirit come together in the realm of forgiveness in the realm of the quantum field or the happy dream and so i've had so much fun in the parable of david discovering the connectedness of everything to me science and religion point to the same experience joy happiness peace of mind it's it's good the course in miracles quantum physics just whatever pathway you seem to travel on you always end up at the same experience which is right now and the present moment is an experience and time is simultaneous time is is not linear now john has a co-worker named phil who is a fellow scientist and and he's going to start sharing what he's discovering about prophecy with phil and phil's going to try to dismiss it which scientists do prophecy does not necessarily fit into the newtonian physicists mind you know they don't have room for what prophecy oh that's just some crazy christian or spiritual thing predicting future events what the hell is that you know in a random world to a lot of scientists it's impossible to predict future events so basically uh john has his sister grace his his mother his father reverend costler and basically there's a lot of conflict in the family because the scientists the astrophysicist doesn't get along with the reverend they they have two different perceived world views and there's lots of grievances there so this movie will be healing grievances that seem to be within the family it will be transcending time and space entirely and basically what i like about this movie is it's it deals with all the major themes the akashic records or the the book of life it deals with ancient uh jewish mysticism uh basically the book of ezekiel from the bible that's part of this it it deals with what i talk about a lot is hypotheticals like this whole world is the belief in hypotheticals what does that mean this is a what if world what if what what if separation from god was possible that's a what if and therefore everything that's perceived in this world is through the filter of the ego which is the belief in separation which generates a future which is not there and a past which is not there Jesus tells us in the course the past is gone and the future is but imagined these concerns past and future are but defenses against present change of focus that's going to be the key in this movie is we're going together down the rabbit hole to start to realize that the only problem we have is a is a faulty perception of the world based on time that's it there's no other problem now the solution is that the time is actually simultaneous it's not it's not linear so it's not past present future it's all happening at the same time and actually it's all happened at the same time but it seems to play out in terms of all these separate events and most human beings are scared of catastrophes they're afraid of calamities they're afraid of disasters currently on the planet if you've watched the news we have raging fires happening in california and the pacific northwest united states and canada we have what the world calls a pandemic and the new variant now the delta variant that's that's aggressive and spreading rapidly across the planet we have had many disasters floods buildings falling down a condominium down in florida just all kinds of disasters ranging from airplane accidents to subway accidents to floods um tsunamis uh some of you remember with with thailand and belasia and there's just so many kinds of disasters and and to the linear perception disasters are are something that you know would say to be very sad about because it's the loss of human life now when you pick up a course of miracles and you actually start following what jesus is saying you start to to realize that jesus is not using the term life in terms of biological life he's not using life to mean human life he's not using life to mean organic life or biological in any way uh i always tell the story of the time when i was doing the dishes and i was listening uh to a ken wopnik audio tape while i was doing the dishes and somebody on the tape asked ken what does the course of miracles have to say about life on other planets and ken's reply was well the course says there's no life on this planet did you get it that's that's ken wopnik at his best that is classic there's no life on this planet and yet when we look at the body when we look at the people when we look at the plants and the animals when we even under a microscope look at the little amoebas or the microbes this world seems to be teeming with with what we call biological life and what jesus is teaching us is this is image making you know this this is a doletree because it's making images before the light before the lord thy god it's it's right out of the 10 commandments from the bible hold no graven images before the lord thy god he's not talking about totem poles or golden statues he's talking about the entire cosmos of images all of time and space is an attempt to hold graven images before the lord thy god oh okay i need i need some forgiveness help here and jesus says yeah you're you're familiar with this process of image maker but you don't see yourself or you don't see the ego as the image maker so it's not you it's not the real you you aren't an idolater but but the belief in the ego is a doletree because it's the attempt to believe in separation from god it's the attempt to believe that you're something that you're not it's your flesh instead of spirit so this movie is going after the jugular it's going after everything everything that is believed in the mind that stands between the remembrance of the light and the sleeping mind is going to get exposed in this movie and this movie first came out i was i was in the land down under Australia i think i was maybe i think i was in sydney and i went to a movie theater with three friends of the old time movie theater with the curtains and then the curtains parted and the screen was there and on came this movie but before it came on i felt all this swirl in my heart like jesus was saying pay attention here i'm just going to expose the ego royally i'm going to show you the whole trick of the ego with this movie and i felt so much energy in my heart before even before the curtains opened before the first frame came on i was like feeling all this energy it was almost like an apparition it might have just as well been jesus appearing on the screen and because the movie was so deep that i thought oh yeah no wonder and i could feel somehow that this movie was the total escape from suffering that even buddha had said life is suffering but jesus says no life is eternal and the ego is where the suffering comes in love doesn't suffer love lasts forever love is eternal light and and divine spirit it has nothing to do with suffering and yet the mesmerism of this world the cloud of darkness of the ego is so thick that it took about 2000 years for jesus to get a course in miracles the book into this realm of time and space because the the cloud of forgetfulness is so thick and dark another good synonym for the world of time and space the cosmos is amnesia when you have amnesia you have completely forgotten reality and you now believe in something that has no reality whatsoever talk about hallucination talk about psychosis a break from reality talk about schizophrenia hearing multiple voices on planet earth instead of the one voice of the holy spirit we're dealing with amnesia in fact i will now call i will now pronounce the cosmos as amnesia will so so anybody with me on this journey i mean keep your hands inside the carpet today because we are going beyond amnesia will you know we've had enough time visiting here it's been long enough visiting amnesia will it's time we we go running to the light so this movie gives us all the potentials and the possibilities to actually see that we have everything that we need right now why we have god right now if god is for us who could be against us if god is with us how could the ego prevail over us if god is with us there is no death if god is with us we live forever isn't that good news if god is with us sickness is impossible so this movie gives us a chance to just really go with it and follow the characters and really right before we start this movie it's a time to pray to the holy spirit and say please holy spirit show me what i need to see whatever troubles i've been dealing with are troubles of time and space show me this moment show me my release from the ego and if you follow this the the conclusion of this movie will bring you to a state where you feel the joy that cannot be touched by this world i was telling a friend a couple days ago i said if you could have an experience where you could see the end of the world and be in perfect joy and love and realize who you really are wouldn't you want that wouldn't you want to calmly be able to look upon the end of the world i'm not talking about the end of of the pandemic i'm not talking about the end of war on planet earth i'm not talking about the end of of suffering on the planet i'm saying if you could look upon the end of the world from a state of mind of transcendence wouldn't you want that because the end of the world is basically your worst case scenario you know that that has to be the worst case scenario that has to be we'll say we'll call it global global disaster global cataclysm if you could look upon a global cataclysm with complete tranquility and complete harmony wouldn't you want that state of mind wouldn't you want that wow that's jesus christ saying be of good cheer i have overcome the world that's what he was talking about and that's our that's our inheritance that's our that's our birthright that's our gift is to transcend the world there is nothing greater than the transcendence of of being able to overcome the belief in in the world the belief in time so sit back and enjoy because there's going to be some angel figures in here that you may not recognize at the beginning you may you may not recognize them at the beginning but we have some other worldly beings that are going to come to offer assistance and some of you remember that that movie franchise men in black these are these are men in black angels tall blonde hair handsome men in black but they are here to help they are here to to point the way to offer prophecy and say there is another way there is something beyond this world and even when the angels come if you don't recognize them at first that's okay but when they do come what you're going to get a feeling is is this is this is lesson number 129 from the workbook beyond this world is a world i want you go from 128 the world i see holds nothing that i want to 129 beyond this world is a world i want and since this is an end of the world movie too i thought maybe i would read a little bit from jesus from the from the manual for teachers because the question is asked of jesus in a course in miracles how will the world end that's a fascinating question to put to jesus how will the world end and this is what jesus has to say he answers the question with another question oh such humor and what does he say he says can what has no beginning really end can what has no beginning really end and then i'm just going to go down and read you the the last paragraph of his answer because i think of all of the things there's like five paragraphs here but i'm just going to read you the last paragraph so get ready are you in your chair now are you settled in this is the last paragraph from jesus on how will the world end the world will end in joy because it is a place of sorrow when joy has come the purpose of the world has gone the world will end in peace because it is a place of war when peace has come what is the purpose of the world the world will end in laughter because it is a place of tears where there is laughter who can longer weep and only complete forgiveness brings all this to bless the world in blessing it departs for it will not end as it began to turn hell into heaven is the function of god's teachers for what they are teach what they teach are lessons in which heaven is reflected and now sit down in true humility and realize that all god would have you do you can do do not be arrogant and say you cannot learn his own curriculum his word says otherwise his will be done it cannot be otherwise and be you thankful it is so so we're going on a ride today and it's a ride towards certainty because it's a ride toward the light and the purpose that we pray for is to dislodge the ego from our mind and to come to a realization of what is available to us right here and right now to open our hearts up to the will of god to god's eternal love and just say I would embrace your will because your will is is my will so enjoy the movie and I will pop in from time to time just as a reminder to stay with the faith


A fiery horse with a speed of light, a clod of dust, and a hearty hyal silver, the Lone Ranger. With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rives again. Come on Silver, let's go big fellow. Come on Silver! The road was being built through the west. The center of activity was the town at the end of track. It was a temporary community of light shacks and tents that could be picked up and moved ahead periodically as the work progressed. In addition to quarters for the railroad workers and their families, there were shops and stores and cafes. Various traders as well as gamblers, confidence men and crooks moved with the town. Brad Carter was in charge of construction for the railroad and Brad felt fine as he relaxed at a table in one of the cafes with several of his friends. Yes, sirree, boys, this is the first time in weeks that I've been able to take an evening for a little talk and relaxation. Work is going good now, eh, Brad? First rate, and report state the land ahead is clear redskins, shouldn't have no more trouble at all. I hope you're not being too optimistic, Brad. Why do you say that, Steve? Well, I'm thinking of Sloane. Oh, that crook. Yeah, he's a dangerous crook, too. Well, I'm shuddering him now, glad I learned about his pals before he had the chance to make trouble. Sloane wouldn't take kindly to being fired off the job. Oh, he's gone from these parts. I hope so. We won't hear no more of him. Hey, Carter, look who just came in. It's your wife. Molly, takes her life. Brad! She's seen you. Looks like she's upset about something. Look, Brad! Brad, thank goodness I found you. Molly, what in tarnation are you doing here? Well, Brad, I came to warn you, Ted Sloane's looking for you. Sloane? We were just speaking of him. One of the men came to the check, and he said that Sloane was coming here. He makes any trouble. I'll drive him into the ground like a wooden stake, and I won't bother shouting in the air. Please, Brad, please don't fight with him. He's dangerous, isn't he? And Joe said he was in an ugly mood. Take it easy, Molly. Don't worry. Look, he just came through the backwing doors. I and everyone in the place, looking for you. I'm right here, Sloane. So I see. I promised myself a showdown, Carter. All right. I'll collect it. Oh, no. No, please don't fight with him. There'll be no fight, Molly. If Sloane starts trouble, I'll finish it. Sloane, when I learned you'd done time in jail for stealing cash, I warned you that I'd give you a chance to make good. I warned you to steer clear of your old pals. No man can tell me who'll be my friend. I don't care who you choose for friends. But I won't have a man working close to payroll cash. It'll be hob knobs with crooks like Prescott and Knowles. That's why I fired you. That's why I'm here to call you on it. You're wearing a gun, Carter. Go for it. Not me, Sloane. You want gunplay, you start it. All right. I'll start. Look out! Oh! Good work, Carter. Yes, I'm a little faster than you figured, huh, Sloane? I tried to shoot away your gun. My bullet brushed your arm. You sure had it coming to you. Sloane, you slapped Liller first. You sure did. You asked for trouble and you got it. You'll wait, Carter. I'll square things. You'd better get out of here, Sloane, and out of town as well. If I hear any more from you, I'll put the next bullet where the effect will be more lasting. Now get! You wait, Carter. You just wait. You haven't heard the last of me. Gosh, Brad, you sure threw a fast shot? Grease lightning. Yeah, I didn't mean to crease his arm. Maybe it's as well I did. You might not be so free to start gunplay when we meet the next time. Oh, Brad, he'll be back. Oh, I don't know, Molly. He will be. I know it. He'll never rest until he gets you. Brad, I'm afraid Molly's right. Had Sloane will be back. And he won't come alone. Next time, they'll bring some of them crooked pals here as long with him. Oh, Brad! Stop it, boys. You know you've given Molly things to worry about. I'm not concerned about what Sloane will do to me. I can take care of myself. Only thing that worries me is the railroad payroll. Brad, you think he'll make a play to get that? Might be. He knows when it comes from the east and how it comes. Now on we'll have to be gosh-awful careful. Yes, sir, we gosh-awful careful. After leaving the cafe at the end of track, Tad Sloane mounted his horse and rode eastward to an arroyo where Prescott and several other hard-faced men were camped. Their campfire was small and fairly well obscured, but it was enough to attract the attention of an Indian who dismounted from his paint horse and advanced silently to the rim of the arroyo. The Indian was Tonto, the companion of the Lone Ranger. He could hear the men's voices. Come on over that gear. I'm in a hurry. I'm doing things as fast as I can, Sloane. I'll have the rest of the blankest road and tie in the jiffy. It wouldn't hurt you to lend a hand, Sloane. My arm hurts where Carter's bullet creased it. Man, that'll do. That horse set to travel, Prescott? Yeah. Get him. Sloane, what are you going to do about Carter? I'll get the critter. I'll get him if it's the last thing I do. If it's the last try, it came close to being the last thing you did. That bullet had been a little more the center. You'd be a gone goose. Save it. If I was you, Sloane, I'd leave him alone. I'll take no chances next time. I'll get him first, then we'll go after that payroll cash. You had a snap getting the cash if you hadn't lost your job. We'll get the cash. How do you aim to get Carter? I know a couple of places just west of town where I can lie and wait, drill them from ambush. Are they laying the new rails? Yeah. Horses are already moved out, Sloane. All right, man, I'm going to show off.  It was one hour later, and daybreak was close at hand. The Lone Ranger lay in his blankets beside the embers of a dying fire. The fast beat of approaching hoofs roused the masked man to instant wakefulness. Silver's Winnie was one of welcome that told the Lone Ranger that it was his friend Tonto who was riding in. Welcome, footballer! Tonto, you've ridden hard. Not right. You learn anything about Sloane? Me learn plenty, Kimusabi. Is he the one we've been looking for? Ahem, same fellow who robbed Bank in St. Joe. And he's been working for the railroad? Not work now. Ahem fired. Ahem got crooked friends. Them planned dry-goat boss named Carter. Brad Carter? Ahem. When? This morning, when Carter get on job. Come on, Tonto, get my bridal. Would you please? Silly Silver, we've got to move fast. Sloane, fella, planned wake in ambush near end of track. You'll have to hurry to get there in time. Ahem. Just one second, boy, we'll be on our way. The cinch is tight there. Silver, ready now. Right. Easy big flow. Easy big flow. One, two, there.  Let's go. They break found the trackman at work. As Sloane, Prescott, and two other men took places of concealment on a slight rise overlooking the tracks. Yes, a good hiding place. Good enough. There's some men on the far side of the tracks. One of them looks like Brad Carter. I think I got him spotted. But I won't be sure until he gets a little liner. Looks like Carter's own horse. Yeah, that's Carter all right enough. Why don't you drill him and be done with him? I do. Those men with him will come after us. We'll have to run for it. Might get caught. I'm not taking any chances. Sloane, what kind of talk is that? We'll have to run for it, whether you're firing now or ten minutes from now or for that matter an hour from now. In a couple of minutes we'll get more of a head start. How do you figure that? Look to the east there. See that work train shoving cars this way? Yeah. What about it? If you'll stop at the end of track, those rails can be unloaded. The liner cars will be right between Carter's pals and us.  Before they can take after us, they'll have to go all the way around the liner cars. We'll have a good head start. Hey, now, that's slick.  I'm thinking so mighty smart thinking. Keep on with that kind of thinking. We'll soon have us a railroad payroll. Quiet now. The train's getting close. I'll draw a bead on Carter. Don't miss when you're first shot. Don't worry. Sheltered by rocks, Sloane lined up the sights of his rifle and prepared to fire the death bullet when the work train came close. He didn't see two hard-riding men coming from far beyond the tracks. He wasn't aware of them until his partner spoke. Hey, Sloane, look yonder. Those riders once masked. The others are risking it.  I gotta make this shot count. Train's close to Carter. Shoot! A couple of seconds more. When a loon ranger fired into the air to attract attention, Carter and his men turned quickly. At that moment, Sloane's carbine spoke just once. You got him. The trains go off the view. I fired just in time. Train's stopping now. All right, boys, come on. Hit your saddles in place. I think I got square with Carter. In the confusion of the moment, the men with Carter couldn't determine the direction from which the shot came. They had all been looking at the approaching masked man and his Indian companion. They knew that the hard-riding pair had fired their guns, and they knew that Brad Carter had been hit and knocked from his horse. Brad, what happened? What have they done to you? That masked man did it.  You too, Redskins. We saw you riding down blazing away with your guns. See how badly Carter's hurt.  That can wait. See what you can do for him, Tutto. Him hurt pretty bad. Brad, Brad, speak to me. Speak to me, Brad. You're Mrs. Carter. Yes. You shot him. You were hired by Sloane. Oh, you murderer. Mrs.  Likely story. That shot came from the other side of the tracks. We saw some men in ambush halfway up the hill. Where are they now?  Maybe so, and maybe not. All we know is that you came in with guns blazing and Carter got hit. We'll hold you for the time being. How about him, Tutto? Bulletin deep chemistry. Steve, Frank, where's the nearest doctor? Gosh, I don't know. Isn't there one back in town? No. And this man will have to be taken into Batesville. Get him on that work train. Tutto and I will do what we can for him while we're on the way to the doctor. Now hold on, mister. You're our prisoners. We will settle for that for the time being. Say this man's life. But don't try to disarm us or remove my mask. I'm dead red-handed while you're packing your machine, man. Can you help me, sir? Take care of Brad. Yes. Put him into the caboose and unhits those flat cars that are ahead of the engine. We're safe enough here, boys. Do we get our win, Sloan? We made a slick getaway. You sure did. You sure you got Carter for keeps? I think I did. That mask man, they were shooting, might have thrown me a little off my aim, but I think Carter's done for. Now, man, we'll round up the rest of the gang. Then we'll make plans to take charge of the next payroll that comes through from the east. Come on.   The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments to continue our story. Brad Carter lay on the floor of the caboose with his wife and friends watching anxiously. While the Lone Ranger and Tato did what they could until the wounded man could get to a doctor, the engine and caboose moved more and more slowly on a long upgrade. Oh, Brad. Brad, can you speak to me? Barley. I'm right here. You're going to be all right, boss. We're taking you to the saw bones at Batesville. Yeah, and we got the man that drilled you. Sloan. Ted Sloan. You're wrong, boss. It's a mask man. He's right here with us. The doctor removed this bullet. You see that you made a mistake. Carter was hit by a rifle bullet. How'd you know? I heard you shooting. That's enough for me. Tato, open the rear door of the caboose. Now, now, hold on. Get as much air in here as possible. Oh. Well, if that's why you want the door open once. Oh, look. Look, those horses. Yes, Captain Silver catching up to us. Hey, this train's hardly moving. Yeah, we'll soon be over the crest. Then we can make better time. Men, Tato and I have done all that we can do. Now, honest up to the doctor. We're going to try to find the man who shot Carter. You're staying right here. Don't try to leave this caboose. Sorry. Let's go. Let me go shoot. I don't intend to shoot. I do intend to leave this car. Go on, Tato. Jump off the rear. Get to the saddle and cover me while I jump. Uh, meatball, you can't get away. Can I have every man in the railroad looking for you? Meanwhile, I'll be looking for Tad Sloan. Me, Tato. I know it's got you covered. I will meet again. Hey, he jumped to his horse. Arsenal of Easter. Come on. Here we go. It was two days later. Brad Carter was rapidly recovering his strength, but was still confined to bed in the temporary cabin that was his home in the town near the end of track. For the first time since being wounded, he was able to sit up and ask questions. Uh, go over again, Molly. Give me all the facts about that mask man. But, Fred, I've told you all I know. You say you wore a mask and was lightning fast with his six guns? Yes, he was. And his Indian friend was called Tato? Brad, I was... Molly, tell me just one thing.  He did. That critter was right behind the caboose on the upgrade when that masked man jumped off and escaped. What did he call his horse? Brad, I don't know. Think back, Molly. Think back. Did he call it silver? Come to think of it, Brad. I reckon he did. Doggone. Molly, you mean to say the boys blamed that mask man for shooting me? Well, yes. Then it's a mighty good thing I wasn't killed. Why, Dad read it.  He's the lone ranger. Brad, are you sure of that? I'm dead sure.  Somehow or other, he's the one who did the shooting. The masked man blamed Sloan. He said he fired from the opposite side of the tracks. Just for the work train, cut us off. My thunder, I'd give all I got if that lone ranger would get on the trail of Sloan and his pals. You won't have to give anything. But, Brad... What the... I had to slip into the back door. It's you! Yes, Brad. I didn't want to be seen by anyone in town. There seems to be a strong desire to stretch my neck. Well, I'll change that. Just wait like it up and around to tell a truth about you. Mr. I want to thank you for getting me to the doctor. Brad, you said you wanted your enemy tracked down. Sloan is out to make trouble. This makes twice he's trying to get me. Sloan is wanted for a bank robbery. That's why I've been looking for him. He's done time in jail for a couple of crimes. You go back for a couple more. Oh, Mr. I'll not sleep a wink as long as Sloan's around. If you could only track him down... That's what Tom and I have been doing. Brad, we picked up Sloan's tracks on the hillside to hurry where he'd ambush you. You did? There were two men with him. There are a couple of no-good skunks he's been hobnobbing with. One is named Prescott. I don't know who the other one is. Could you follow his tracks? Yes, but it's been slow work. Early this morning, we found a camp. Yeah? Sloan seemed to have spent considerable time in that camp. He was joined by some other men. Some others? Yes. There were at least 15 men in that camp. 15? Oh, Brad. He's up to something. Oh, Mr. What can be done? I've got a lot of friends here in town, as well as the men who are working at the end of the track. Maybe we took all of them and raided that camp. The Sloan gang is on the move. Do you know where they're going? No. The trail became quite hard to follow. I left Tom as a studyate while I came here to speak to you. Mr. Will you keep on that trail? Will you do it till I'm strong enough to take over? I'm not asking it for my sake. I'm asking it for the sake of the railroad. We'll do all we can to learn what Sloan is planning. Don't worry, Carter. That night, Sloan and Prescott and the rest of their gang were huddled close to a small fire in a new camp. We missed out the other day when we tried to get Brad Carter. But I don't aim to miss out anymore. What about that payroll money? That's what I'm going to talk about. We'll start now tomorrow morning before dawn. We'll head to the end of the tracks where the construction gang is spiking rails. Now, hold on, Sloan. You said you were after payroll money. We are. Well, a payroll money will be in the cabin where Carter makes his home and office, and that's in the town. I know that. The working crew has gone ahead since the last time the town was moved. That's right. It fits right in with my plans. Suppose you tell us some more of your plans.  We'll get that payroll cash by being smart. Listen carefully. Then check on your guns and be ready to break camp before daybreak. The construction crew had advanced several miles since the morning when Sloan had waited in ambush to shoot Brad Carter. There were nearly 20 men in Sloan's gang that rained up near end of the track. Right over there, boys. That's the layout. You shoot from here. You have plenty of cover. Prescott, you take charge. I'll take Hank with me to collect the payroll. Any questions? Let me just check on our part. We'd open fire on the labors and keep firing until they send a town for reinforcements. That's right. Every man able to bear a gun will clear out a town. Leaving things easy for me and Hank to call on Carter. As soon as the reinforcements get here to help the labors, me and the boys clear out, is that it? That's right. The attack here is just to draw men away from town while you and me get the payroll, Sloan. Right. Are you boys open fire and me and Hank will start the town? Come on, Hank, right. Open fire. Let them have it. How many men are attacking us? But we're outnumbered. We need help. My horse is over here. I'll go to town and get more men. Ho, ho, ho there. All out. All out, boys, it's an attack. Get your horses and rifles. Get to the end of the track. Get out there. Come on, get out. Word spreads through the community like wildfire and the men lost no time in grabbing rifles leading to their savils and riding westward. Ho, ho, ho there, boys, ho. The messenger will end up before Brad Carter's home. Brad, it's a Sloan gang. What are they up to? Where are they? Attacking at the end of the track. Molly, Molly, I gotta go help the boys.  No, you stay here, boss. We'll have plenty of men to handle Sloan's gang. I've got every able-bodied man in town. I just wanted you to know what's going on. Molly, I wonder what Sloan is up to. I thought he'd come here to get the payroll cash. Darkness had forced the Lone Ranger and Kato to call a halt as they followed the trail of the Sloan gang. They had resumed their way at daybreak and were riding slowly when they heard the sound of distant gunfire. Kato, let's get ahead. Alright. The direction of Sloan's men went. Come on, we'll see what it means. The two men rode at top speed until they reached the crest of a hill. Ho, ho, ho. In the valley beneath, they saw the end of crack. They saw the railroad workers firing at the outlaws who had sought cover halfway down the hill. That's Sloan gang. There's gang, Kato. I don't see Sloan himself. Me not, Sam. We've got to make sure. Remember we opened fire from here. Catch outlaws between two fires. Oh, wait. We cut off retreat of gang. Yes, we could. Men railroad men capture all crooktima, Savvy. Why does Sloan attack? What's he after? Me not, No. Kato, Sloan isn't there. I'm sure of it. Now listen to me. You stay here. Those men try to retreat, take shelter behind that rock and open fire, put off their escape. Me, Savvy. Known as after payroll money, he'd be in town. That's where I'm going. I'll have the sheriff and his men join you here. One pillar! In his home, Brad Carter was restless and angry. Can't found it, Molly. Me here doing nothing while my men are fighting that gang. If I could only be out there fighting with them. Now, Brad, Brad, please. There's no use grumbling.  Just the same, I don't like it when other men do my fighting for me. I'd like you to do my own fighting. Hello, Carter. Sloan. Steady, there's no use trying to go for a gun. You won't beat me this time. My gun's already on you. You want a dry, gulching pullcat?  Let's get where we came from and get out of here, Sloan. Oh, we got plenty of time, Hank. You keep an eye on the woman. Go ahead, Sloan. Do your shooting and have it over with.  I guess you know what we're here for, don't you, Carter? Two things. You and the payroll. If I had my gun... Well, you haven't. You can't shoot a defenseless man. You can't do it.  This is the third time I've come for you, Carter. First two times, I failed. But this time, it's going to be different. Oh, no. Oh, yes. This time, it's going to be different. I'm going to put a bullet right between your eyes. I wonder if you can see it coming. Look faster. What is it? Drop that other gun. You, mask. Drop it or you'll get the same as Sloan. Oh, my shoulder. Quickly. No, no, don't shoot. I dropped it. I'll keep the gun over to you, Brad. Figure it out. Yeah, I got it. Now, Sloan, as you said, this is the third time you've tried to get me. And this time, it's going to be different. Wait, wait. Listen, Carter. I'm not armed. You can't shoot a defenseless man. Now, the tune's different now, isn't it?  You're going to save you for the law. There's another gun over here. I'll get it. Red's gun. Oh, I can help keep these bullcats covered until you get back. Till I get back? Yes. Yes, the rest of the gang are attacking the railroad workers. You needn't worry about the rest of Sloan's gang. They're trapped between two fires. By this time, they're prisoners. Oh, gone Sloan. It looks like three times an hour, huh? Let's keep them covered until the sheriff gets there with the rest of Sloan's gang. Adios, Brad. Adios. I can't find it, mask man. If it hadn't been for him... Sloan is a lot of crooks in jail. It wouldn't be there. If it hadn't been for the Lone Ranger. This is a product of the Lone Ranger Incorporated. Created and produced by George W. Trendle and directed by Charles D. Livingston. Tonight's story was written by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beamer.


proudly we hail how another proudly we hail one of radio's outstanding dramatic half-hours starring Lee Tracy and presented transcribed by your army and your Air Force from Radio City New York here is your star and host on proudly we hail the distinguished Broadway stage screen and radio star Lee Tracy you Kenneth Bang Hart and hello everyone welcome to proudly we hail I feel you're going to really enjoy our program for this is one of the most moving scripts I've had the pleasure of reading and doing in many a year it's a story about the Air Force about one member of the Air Force in particular and I think you're going to feel as close to Nick as I do we'll begin our story in just a moment after these very important words from Ken Bang Hart before you start your story Lee I have a short short message to the young men of America there may be a career for you in the United States Army or the United States Air Force and a real opportunity to serve your country see your local recruiter right away you're needed now Lee I know our audience is anxious for our play to begin I'm sure they are Ken and so am I with our star Lee Tracy in the role of Nick your army and your Air Force presents the proudly we hail production of the long flight sometimes in the darkness of the night I go back in one sense you could call it a dream for it only happens when I'm asleep but in all other ways it's no dream like a swimmer caught in a past flowing tide I'm swept over the barriers of time it is our great wave picked me up here in the present and deposited me in a world I knew and lived in seven years ago every time it's the same for the current that sweeps me into its flow is one of voices voices lost in time and space there sound a counterpart to the vibrant space of engines and flight red leader red leader they're flying jaco and oxcock close up your tails dragon that's water down there that help buddy red leader red leader red leader the only voice that is disjointed and out of place the only voice that's not part of the rest perhaps it's there because I was the leader of red flight perhaps it's Scottie's voice calling to me I don't haunts me more than the others always begins that way and it always takes me down down out of the sky away from the chorus of other voices to that faithful dawn Captain Khalia time to hit it sir and oh turn off that blasted light sorry sir will you sign this oh no why can't this I can't let a man sleep here here give me the thing so I wake up with him in Scott's I'll wake him up just go away turn out the light well you ought to be a briefing at 03 30 sir and it's 0300 now corporal will you go away yes sir oh brother hey mmm Scottie yeah you'll wake I don't know what's the matter couldn't you sleep I don't think so well cheer up it's morning at least it will be Sunday you better get up we got a date date with an angel I live it all over I feel it I see it as it happened then as we finished dressing go out into the warm moist darkness I hear the first bark of an engine as it clears its husky throat down on the line joined by others at the time we enter the mess all the night is alive with the background of sound the sound that is compelling that draws at the heart who's meaning not for some of your primary target we know that it's well covered by plenty of ACA from one will be made from five thousand feet the briefing room crowded and smoke fell the briefing officer with his pointer his shadow enlarged on the map exaggerating his movements clipped words lecture room manner unemotional presentation painting a picture that etches itself into our minds with grim finality people rubbing a sweat off the palms of my hands and wishing he'd hurry up and get it over with I already know this is the worst yet huh so good is it never is this tops it doesn't seem to make much sense nick I've got a feeling this time who has no this is different not just being scared not get off yet wait a minute I'm serious I'm serious too I've never felt like this before and I know what it means and I know there's nothing I or you or anyone can do I just wanted to say it it's been good knowing you Scotty you always had too much imagination for your own good don't you think I feel the same way every time we go out you think just because you feel it all of a sudden if something new and different let's stop talking like a dope gonna be a nice day hot couldn't pick a nicer one all right get it out of your system you think this is it yeah Nick I do I woke up around midnight and I knew then I lay there trying to talk myself out of it trying to get back to sleep but I couldn't longer I lay there and thought the more I knew that this was gonna be the day I got it don't you think that I wake up in the night and have the same kind of thoughts don't you think we all do maybe but I know you're different you're psyche you're also beat to the teeth your nerves are all shot you need three months of peace and quiet you're sick to death of the whole business I know because I'm just the same and Pat knows because he's just the same Jack and Steve and car all the rest of them another thing you got to get more than yourself to think about you got you got a crew depending on you think about that maybe you'll snap out of it now don't get sore I'm not so all right then get sore look I'll show you how much I think of your half-baked premonitions here take this with you it's just loaded with good luck full of magic God's made it out of quick silver don't be a dope Nick I couldn't take your good luck piece I stand there in the growing light of that summer dawn hot and angry more than that worried there's a look in Scottie's eyes it was never there before resigned is the word and the more I try to snap him out of it the more I try to arouse him the more aroused I get the good luck piece with something that had been with me for a long time the silver figure of a of a nymph with our arms raised skyward about two inches high and Scotty knew I'd never flown without her the resigned look was joined by one of stubbornness he wouldn't take it when he swung away from me I lost my temper grabbed him over the shoulder spun him around pulled open his shirt plus the figurine inside there now take it take it a throw it away I don't give a hoot which when the mission is over bring it back to me because maybe I'll need it good there staring at one another and cut through my anger and put a chill in my heart the way he looks at me he isn't mad like I am and he should be he should be mad mad enough to punch my teeth in instead of that okay make you feel better I'll keep it when you need it I'll give it back oh for the love of listen there's only one reason I want you to take it and that's to prove that all this superstition business is a lot of bunk I'm the one who shouldn't come back only I'm coming back see I'm coming back every time and you're coming back to now will you please snap out of it we're all nuts aren't we I wouldn't doubt that I'm near good reason plenty gotta go pick up my boys yeah well I'll I'll see you later keep your eyes open good luck good luck Nick I'll take care of this thing sure you won't take it back when I need it I'll ask for it my dream I watch him disappear in a half light then little guy shoulders hunched forward as though he were cold Scotty the poet Scotty the man who knew breaks on controls free and movable trim tabs set flaps up tail wheel lock mixture set bottle the litany of flights that's what Scotty called it that's what it is I guess the litany to be followed by the song a song that leads us straight into I didn't see him go down I was too busy someone who did said he shipped took a direct hit just disappeared though it never been there my dreams of suddenly find myself walking up the cinder path to our billet a feeling of numbness and dull shock hedge my thoughts and actions nothing's very clear even the realization of Scotty is gone is not yet penetrated deeply go into the room time is good still here nothing's changed the state of disarray that's a short time between our leaving and now walk to the desk and they're looking down at scarred surface something guides my hand to a piece of paper writing on it Scotty's writing I read it if I must fly in disputed air and match my wings in mortal combat if I must die amidst the cloud land with the harsh chant of engines soiling the silence of the universe then oh God of battle one wish I asked one prayer I pray let me return ghost as I am the guide others safely on their way it's then that the realization that Scotty Scotty the poet is dead it's then that I awake our starly Tracy will be back with a second act of the long flight in just a moment but first I have an important message to the high school graduates in our audience I hope you know by this time that the United States Air Force can help you plan and build a successful career and at the same time you can serve your country now when you're needed most never before in our history has there been such an opportunity for men qualified to work in radio radar electronics weather communications and many other fields so visit your local recruiting station and get all the details you're needed now you are listening to proudly we hail and now for the second act here again is Lee Tracy starring as Nick in the long flight that's my dream seven years old following me wherever I go and since that time I've been many places all over the States South America Italy Greece Turkey now here Cairo Egypt these days I'm working for a one-lung airline with flights northeast south and west anywhere there are four of us we got to surplus C-47s tonight I'm taking one of them to have an ear that's about 900 miles east of here across the Syrian desert no passengers just freight no co-pilot just the stars because of the heat I'll take off about midnight get there dawn nice night for flying Nick yeah doc you want to come along I'll be taking off for a smell a couple hours after you as soon as you get those goats loaded hot Docs flying arc you can say that again it's a manifest sunny thanks Pete everything checks are one way or another what am I hauling I'm mostly heavy stuff Nick not too heavy I hope no we left enough room to crawl into the cockpit that's what I like about you you're thoughtful that's what my mother used to tell me I have a nice trip thanks see you when I get back right I walk out into the close hot darkness and slowly across the tarmac towards the darkest silhouette of the waiting plane in the night it looks like a monstrous crouching bird huge waiting off to my right the sharp ghostly finger of light from the control tower probes a circular way the hangers left over from the other day stand behind me breeze fans against my face there's a feel of flight in it and overhead the stars are bright and beckoning I guess she'll do doc got her wings on you like to do the honors with the fire bottles hard I climb into the gaping side of the ship pull the cargo door to after me finally a call down to doc who stands below with the fire bottle clear clear right no longer silent or voice box is called for the night she's come alive I call the tower get my taxi instruction I can't cleared for takeoff that's the phrase I like ease the throttle engines leave off their chuckling a break into song flight song straight down the runway she roared full-throated and sure the throttle's rest against the stop she's eager to fly not a moment the green lights come closer she's ready to fly them the lights are gone the earth is gone the luminous dials of the instruments point the way through the dark void landing gear cuts itself in for the night and we're on our way at 10,000 feet between seven and earth I fly where space and time blend together to make a world like no other I am its only inhabitant a voyager in limbo within the cockpit the greenish light of the instrument panel is my heart without the dome of the star flex sky is a vastness both friendly and distant the hours ticked by the beat of the engines lulls the senses and the man's thoughts travel strange paths a line from one of scottish poems catches my mind and I repeat it over and over and over in starlight and black darkness in starlight and black darkness in starlight and black darkness shake it loose my mind is full of the memory of the man who wrote it scottie the poet scottie whose last poem was a plea to come back and help other pilots get home safely maybe that's what scottie's been doing maybe he's he's here with me now here in the empty silence of the cockpit a man's thoughts do travel strange paths even old stranger conversation hi scottie hi nick you've been a long time old buddy sure has awful good to see it I'm sorry about that last day scottie I just thought you couldn't tell nick only I could do that I just knew that's all you haven't changed much no I'm the same now you're written any more poetry you're the poet now nick me oh I'm just an airplane driver how do you like this old boat bucket flies doesn't she like crazy she is good to see you again scottie kind of like old times isn't it yeah you remember that guy who was always crazy huh not really when you're alone flying through the middle of nowhere you play a lot of strange games I go back over all a good time scottie and I had together places we went things that happen I tell him what's happened to me since the one thing I stay away from is the memory of that last morning so after I got back I went up on the cape I just lay there and I took it slow and easy for about two months must have been quite a time nick I was all of that scottie think you'll ever settle down Nick not for long this is where I live scottie this is my home all the settling down I ever do is be right here almost got married once scared me to think about it she wanted me to give up flying and take a job in her father's bank when I make a good banker just a type yeah I sure am her her name was Leona he suddenly the game is over scottie's blotted from my mind as the stars have been blotted from the sky one moment they were there now the darkness above matches that below and the plane gives an uneasy shrugged though she too were surprised then without further warning I'm caught in the foals of something ugly and relentless the night is no longer friendly it's become a vicious enemy it seeks to destroy the plane bucks and twist dropping and rising sickeningly a focus my eyes on the instrument panel the dials have begun to dance weirdly to the tune of the storm I cursed myself for not having fastened my safety belt this was a better clear calm flight too late for that now I decided to turn back get out of this thing I start to turn full strength of the storm hits my head is slammed against the roof of the cockpit how long it goes on I don't know I know I'm losing the fight the earth is much closer now and then it happens the plane rises up and up engine parking and agony and then down we plummet everything pulled out from underneath in that last instant my head crashed again the cockpit roof I know this is the end pay off somewhere in another world a world far from this endless sea of fog in which I've been drifting forever I hear a sound the sound I know and yet it's difficult to identify it comes closer fog starts slipping away slowly at first and faster and faster suddenly it's all gone I'm sitting in the cockpit of the plane with the dawn light growing strong about me what am I doing what's this all about my head aches numbly and there's a taste of sulfur in my mouth my thoughts group for an answer bit by bit it all comes back but when it's all in place the question what am I doing here is changed to by what freak of luck am I still alive my mind is too numb to work over I'm alive that's all I know and right now it's enough look about me in the strengthening light the plane is battered but still flyable perhaps just as strange as the fact that I realized have habanera is only a few short minutes ahead none of it adds up skies pale and clear in the early morning light as I come in for my landing with the left engine feathered silent not the best landing in the world but I get it down and one piece right now that's all it seems to match taxi over to the tarmac following the directions of a man who harm waves direction when I cut the switch and sit limply in the cockpit for a moment trying to rub some of the ache out of my head after a while I get up slowly and walk down the ramp between the heavy cargo boxes whose ropes by some miracle held them in place takes two tries to get that cargo door open I bet hi Jack we didn't think you were going to get here either did I you didn't fly right through that thing did you know what was it anyway one of those freak line squalls worse I've ever seen come up without any warning at all place the devil around here we tried calling you but it didn't do much good no you look kind of beat up I am oh you want to you want to check and see what kind of shape this buggy is going to beat up to sure given a one engine did you yeah left ones all shot okay I'll have a look thanks I walked carefully like a man on a tightrope across the tarmac towards the low-roof operation shack my head won't seem to come out of the spin that's in suddenly I hear someone calling my name I stopped and turned around slowly and Jack he comes running up hey Mr. Carrier I found us in the cockpit you must have dropped it what's the matter I stand there looking at what Jack holds in his hand it's the silver figure of a nymph with her arms raised skyward about two inches high it's the good luck charm I never flew without until I gave it to a fellow named Scotty the poet one morning seven years ago the days I reach out to take it burn my hand and through my mind runs a poem Scotty's last poem if I must fly in disputed air and match my wings in mortal combat if I must die amidst the cloud land with the harsh chant of engines soiling the silence of the universe then oh God a battle one wish I ask one prayer I pray let me return ghost as I am to guide others safely on their way thank you Lee Tracy for a thrilling portrayal of Nick in the long flight I'm sure our audience agrees with me that we'll remember this gallant pilot story for a long time to come well can Nick story well being one that touches us is really only one of the thousands of stories being written every day by pilots such as he am I right here exactly rightly I have another message and while it may not apply directly to those pilots it's nevertheless of real concern to American soldiers and airmen everywhere your army and your Air Force with their growing demands need medical professionals the Army and the Air Force medical services must expand right now the primary need is for physicians dentists nurses physical and occupational therapists dieticians veterinarians and specialists trained in all medical fields so if you're qualified volunteer for an immediate assignment to active duty right or wire the Surgeon General Department of the Army or the Surgeon General US Air Force Washington DC when you do it you'll know full well that you are needed now this has been another program on proudly we hail presented in cooperation with this station by your Army and your Air Force proudly we hail stars Lee Tracy and supporting Mr. Tracy in the cast or Joe DeSantis Bill Lipton Jack Jason and George Clark the long flight was written by Dewitt cock the music is composed and conducted by John Guarneri proudly we hail is directed by Charles Wilkes this is Kenneth Banghart speaking and here is your host and star the Tracy we hope you'll be with us next week for proudly we hail we have a program I'm sure you will enjoy it's entitled a party for crowback and it's a tale filled with suspense goodbye


What's good Joshua boros back again with another video So there's been a lot of speculations and rumors running around for the past few days about CM Punk potentially returning to WWE so I wanted to give my thoughts and opinions on this whole situation I'm gonna be checking out an article from give me sport Com man, I'm gonna go through this article read what was said and talked about and then formulate my own Opinions and what do I think will potentially happen with CM Punk? Do I think he will come back? Will he be welcome back with open arms? As you know Triple H is in charge pretty much and we all know CM Punk and Triple H Don't really like each other. We'll least in the past. They didn't like each other. I'm not sure if that's the same way now So we're gonna check this out. Let's get right into this article CM Punk latest reports leads to shock rumors 43 year old wants WWE return man WWE and CM Punk seems to be shockingly open to working together Again new reports have led fans to believe CM Punk hasn't been seen in a wrestling ring all Since all out of September 4th when he was alleged to have been suspended by AEW After a backstage altercation with the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega There seems to be a hold up with Punk's outright leaving AEW which seems likely which reports Have stated is down to the fear that he could return to WWE Is CM Punk returning to WWE? It's worth noting that no one is reporting that Punk is heading back to WWE or even wants to but recent Reports do seem to suggest that he may be targeting a Sensational return Dave Meltzer noted in the latest Wrestling Observer that Punk is expected to leave AEW With Tony Khan looking at a contract buyout However, the hold up seems to be over a non-compete clause AEW is in talks with Punk about the future, but right now it looks doubtful He will be back They are in talks with Punk about a buyout of the remaining years of his contract Which tells you that they are not looking to bring him back the hold up right now It's said to be the non-compete period The report notes that the only wrestling company with financial power to bring Punk in would be WWE So it seems like AEW is worried about the prospect of him making a sensational return Obviously if the non-compete clause is an issue, it's about interest in going to WWE because there's no need for a non-compete clause Otherwise because nobody else but AEW and WWE can pay him close to what he was making This would also suggest that AEW is fearing Punk could go back to WWE perhaps because he's given someone Perhaps he's given someone an indication that he'd be interested in working with his former employers once again This idea was discussed by Russell talk during one of their recent videos, which you can watch below shout out to Russell talk I am subscribed to them as well The report did note that while Punk left WWE in 2014 due to issues with not just Vince McMahon But also Triple H. He could be brought back as a way to get one over on AEW Meltzer explains that bringing Punk back into WWE could be Triple H's way of sticking it to his competitors in the midst of The wrestling war AEW and WWE are in right now There are those in WWE who have been negative towards him But it is a war and the optics of looking public publicly that they have taken Punk from AEW would be very Significant Triple H whole game right now is to is is about Surprise debuts and Punk would be the biggest possible for him to bring in for impact It's worth noting that reports notes that neither AEW nor CM Punk could would comment on the matter But neither denied it either leading fans to believe there's some truth as you can see below and then there's some tweets down here Some people are saying I know Triple H and CM Punk don't get along for him coming back to WWE would be nice It seems that CM Punk is open to returning to WWE Otherwise why would he be negotiating over a non-compete clause? Could say pay me and stick me down for five years. I'm done. Anyway, it isn't like impact wrestling could afford them This is facts.   That's the things where it's like It's really gaining some buzz. I believe Triple H has been noted saying You know, he wouldn't be opposed to CM Punk coming back You know, he wouldn't be opposed to it granted. It probably wouldn't be a full-time situation But he's not opposed to it. So that came out of Triple H's mouth cuz Triple H knows Whether you like somebody or not You're in the business of making money, you know, I'm saying so you could put things aside If it's there if it's a possibility of making money and sticking its AEW It's kind of a win-win situation. Now me personally, do I think CM Punk needs to come back to the WWE? My immediate answer is no and reason why I say no is because I think CM Punk is at that point in his career where Him coming back The only reason why you would even have him come back is to I guess maybe enhance the future talent Enhance the people they have there maybe have some cool dream matches or you know matches matchups We haven't seen in quite some time that would possibly be it It wouldn't be for him to be the top guy even though he would be the top guy But in the sense of him holding a major championship off the bat I don't think that's needed and honestly Right now The way people are viewing him. Yes, people would love to see him in WWE But the way people are viewing him. He's not I guess you could say universally loved like he was when he first Originally came to AEW. I think people view him as kind of this locker room Problem like this this person that it's hard to work with, you know, and that could just be a perception But the perception is it's not it's not I guess you can say farfetched Considering what happened in AEW and how things just completely imploded I don't think that it would necessarily be something that the fans would Just ultimately be on a board with for example break why it coming back I think universally a lot of the fans were on board with that CM Punk It would be a shock value for sure But would he really be as over as he was now that we know What went down in AEW that that really becomes the question. Yes He would still be a major top guy in the company and CM Punk back in WWE in a wrestling capacity But at the same time, would he still have that that that type of luster that he once had, you know I'm not so sure and also you got to take in consideration How would the WWE locker room feel having a guy that caused potentially a lot of chaos in another company's locker Now in their locker room, how would that affect other wrestlers? How would they feel about having CM Punk there, you know Cuz a lot of these wrestlers whether you guys believe it or not They actually are cool with each other outside of them being in separate companies So I'm sure conversations have been had and people are like, I don't know if I want him over here and Potentially causing problems. I'm saying that he would but at the same time Who knows and me honestly? I Don't think he needs to be in WWE. I just I just don't yes The times has changed, but we know he doesn't like Triple H. They don't Triple H and CM Punk. They don't rock with each other. I don't think it's changed that much It's now especially that Triple H runs the whole thing On what you see on television. I don't think it's really changed that much. Maybe it has I don't know. I can't really speak on their relationship, but I will say this I just I just don't think it needs to happen. Not right now. I Honestly me personally, I do think maybe see a punk. I think it's time for him to hang it up I mean hell he's gotten injured again. I don't think I don't think his body can even go like it used to We're seeing it now. So honestly me personally, I think he should probably just go ahead Hang it up, you know, if a W decides to let him go They just let him go pay him out and he just chill the rest of his days because I just I think his best years are behind him In my opinion, and I just don't see What you know, I'm not sure if he would gel with everyone there in WWE or like the majority of the locker room, maybe he will maybe won't I just I don't know I just really don't see it could there be some great feuds coming from him being back in the WWE of course But I just I don't think they need it You know saying it's it's not gonna just in my opinion be one of those things where it's like Oh, yeah, we got seeing punk back on, you know, it's gonna obviously create some rating boost, but In the grand scheme of things. I mean It's not gonna really be a full-timer any any ways are gonna be born a part-time schedule if he was to come And I just don't think that WWE really needs them right now. Honestly, that's just my thing I don't think they in they really at the end of the day need him I think they're doing a great job what they're doing right now and who they have right now I'm sure Triple H has some more people coming in. So I it for it be different if they need it that spark They don't they got the Roman Reigns stuff going on the judgment day stuff going on You still have the edge potentially coming back in attacking judgment day. You have these great pay-per-view events coming up You also have You have I can't even think of the name Karrion Kross in his bag with Drew McIntyre Like there's a lot of things going on in WWE on all their brands Especially even with Bray Wyatt being there has been a positive thing for Smackdown So it's like they have a lot of star power. Do they really even need CM Punk to be back In a sense me personally, I don't I think just seeing punk just you kind of just maybe just hang it up man hang it up I It's not working out in AW and I just don't think There's a need for him in WWE But if he was to come to WWE would I would I complain? No, I would be interested to see what they do But I don't think it's necessary. So comment down below. Let me know.  Let me know down below But I appreciate all the love and support you guys have been showing on the channel Roll to 100k appreciate y'all. Keep giving me see our next piece


Hello everybody, HoodedCoverCommander here. This is the show where we review every vintage G.I. Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. And this is a brief, full review of the 1993 FLAC Viper Version 2 action figure. This review will cover the basic information for FLAC Viper Version 2 and the differences between Version 1 and Version 2. This is information I should have included in the review of FLAC Viper Version 1, but I didn't think of it until after I had already finished that review. Some of these later versions of earlier figures that came out in 1993 and 1994 were almost exactly the same as their earlier version and they don't really warrant a full feature length review. In the future I will try to review them alongside their earlier versions and that's what I should have done here. FLAC Viper Version 2 was released in 1993 and was available in 1993 only. It was discontinued for 1994. It was number nine in the Battle Course series. It used exactly the same mold as Version 1 for both the figure and the accessories. Looking at Version 1 and Version 2 side by side you can see they are basically the same. The only real difference is they changed the blue plastic and paint to bright orange. It was the 90s and they made the mistake of releasing a Cobra figure with a decent color scheme and they couldn't have that so they changed it to orange. Looking at FLAC Viper's accessories his rifle is exactly the same as Version 1 but in a bright orange color instead of blue. It has all the same advantages and problems as that Version 1 rifle. Next looking at his missile launcher backpack. The backpack itself appears to be identical to the Version 1 backpack. I don't see any color or molding differences. The only real difference between these two backpacks is the color of the trigger bright orange on Version 2 and blue on Version 1. The missiles are also the same except for a color difference of course. Very bright orange missiles on Version 2 and blue missiles on Version 1. If we can bring out Dr. Mindbender for a moment we can demonstrate that these missiles like on Version 1 will really fire. Oops missed the first time. Let's try to get them this second time. Ah we actually knocked down Dr. Mindbender this time. The missiles appear to use exactly the same mold as the missiles for Version 1. They are identical other than the color and they are interchangeable. You can put those Version 2 missiles in the Version 1 backpack and it will still fire. The final accessory is the figure stand. It is a basic black figure stand and this appears to be the same as the figure stand for Version 1. Let's take a look at Flak Viper Version 2's file card and as you can see they updated the color in the artwork to reflect the Version 2 coloring. This is the main reason I consider Version 2 to be a new version and not just a variation on Version 1. They didn't just change the color of the figure and the accessories. They did also update the packaging. The other subtle difference in the artwork is these features that are numbered here and have arrows on the figure. The numbers and arrows are in a slightly different order but the list of features is the same. The font is a little different but the actual text of the list of features is the same. In fact I'll only notice one real text difference between these two file cards so I won't read the full Version 2 file card. I'll just point out the differences. The text difference I notice is on the Version 1 file card under the codename Flak Viper it says Cobra Anti-Aircraft Trooper. It doesn't have that on Version 2. Instead it has primary military specialty anti-aircraft trooper. Everything else, the quote and the paragraph under it are the same. The font as I said is a little different. They're using looks like a smaller font on the Version 2 file card but the text itself is the same. If I had to choose between these two guys I prefer Version 1. I still think the backpack is a bit silly but I much prefer the color scheme of Version 1. That was my review of Flak Viper Version 2. It really should have been part of the review of Flak Viper Version 1 but I didn't think of it in time so there you go. If you're just sick of all the mistakes I make in these videos make sure you give this video a thumbs up. It lets me know you're smarter than me. And to catch all the mistakes I make in future videos make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel and hit the notification bell so no mistake goes unnoticed. Thanks to all my patrons for supporting this channel. If you'd like to help fund this parade of errors make sure you check out Patreon. Thanks for watching and until next time don't forget that uncreative and overused catchphrase I totally made up for this show. Only GI Joe is GI Joe.