The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with family theater incorporated presents T-Formation starring Bob Hope with Virginia Wells Joan Leslie is your hostess More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams Ever happened to be walking through the woods and come to a place where the road branches into two paths And you don't know which to take you finally decide and go along wondering where the other path would have brought you Isn't that the way it is in life we come to certain crossroads and have to decide which way to go and Often we know having once chosen will never be able to return and discover where the other path might have brought us The sad part of it is so many people seem to take a path that leads to unhappiness You know, it's at these crossroads in life. We need more help than even the good advice of our friends We need God's help That's why prayer should play an important part in our lives And it's so very important too when we're making decisions not only for ourselves, but for those we love our families Yes, and a constant consideration is deciding how we want our own family our children to grow up Because for right living children need not only the guidance of mothers and fathers in a home They need God and the inspiration of daily family prayer That's why so many families have learned the importance of praying together That's why so many families are making prayer a daily family practice Joan Leslie will return later in the program now family theater presents T-Formation starring Bob Hope with Virginia Wells You wanted to see me oh Sullivan sit down Bob What's the trouble coach the boys on the team have been complaining about you again I won the game for him didn't I three touchdowns personally delivered by the greatest running back of the century That's me Bob Hopkins and the boys are complaining. You're not following orders Hopkins, but I'm winning games coach Where would your Boston Beavers be without Bob Hopkins quote the fastest tricky as sweetest little hunk of football fury and the American pro grid iron Unquote the syndicated columnist love me all right your good Hopkins You're great, but you're only one man on the team, but what a man coach you're giving waller Spencer a rough deal Wally Spencer Spencer's a good fullback. I want you to give him your cooperation. I want teamwork Hopkins now in next week's game Look, let me worry about next week's game after all you're only the coach and another thing yeah this afternoon I hung up three touchdowns for it didn't I right next week I'm gonna make it four touchdowns, and I'm gonna do it without help from Wally Spencer Football game it is ladies and gentlemen It's the T-Formation again for the Beavers with Hopkins Spencer and Carberry ready to tee off The ball goes back direct from center to Carberry Carberry is fading back looking for a receiver if he can throw it to Spencer Spencer's out in the clear But no no it's a quick lateral to Hopkins and Bob is on the loose He shakes off Frankie Crump pivots away from Bobby Gill Hopkins is up to the 45 the 50 He's through the secondary Bob is cutting over to the right. He's actually avoiding his own interference Bob is down to the Ramblers 40 35 30 there's nobody ahead of him now But any lynch of the Ramblers Bob is down to the 20 lynch tackles What misses there was Bob over the goal line for his fourth touchdown ladies and gentlemen Oh boy the bragging beat man. What a run nice work bubble boy for touchdown Yeah, I could have made more but the other team has to live to yeah Yeah, but we never thought you could do it for touchdowns against the Ramblers the toughest team in the league Oh, they weren't so tough one big sissy had rhinestones on his brass knuckles. Where's O'Sullivan? Oh, there you are coach Well, I did it I'll say you did it that last play made my blood run cold Well now you can relax and defrost when you went around left and you failed to follow Spencer Why'd you cut over toward the right sidelines? Well, the newsreel cameras were over there. Can you think of a better reason? I give up and another thing all during the last half you seem to be upset about something coach I'll admit I was upset every time I carried the ball.  Look coach. I want to talk to Aggie a minute. I'll see you in the locker room All right, but don't stand around and catch cold keep your blanket around you I'll be a good Indian. Lo me your fountain pen. I may have to sign a few autographs Okay, and I want to talk to you after you get dressed now run along and make it snappy. I will coach Well, I give what's a good word? That's a very good word for touchdown. Well, I said I'd make him didn't I mr. Hopkins Will you give me your autograph, please? Hope you don't mind. Don't be silly. What do you think I'm carrying this pen for there? You are gee. Thanks, Mr. Hopkins. Goodbye. There's gratitude for you I give him one of my best autographs and he doesn't say a word about my four touchdowns But after all you're the great Bob Hopkins. He expected you to make a four touchdown Hey, he paid me a compliment, didn't he certainly a well-deserved compliment That pass you through in the first quarter was out of this world 60 yards just a flip of the wrist, but that's enough about me. Let's talk about you How did you like what I did today? You were wonderful. You said that before you were sensational You'll be all over the sport pages tomorrow. Listen, Aggie. I'm not satisfied with just making the sport pages honey Let's make the front page. Let's get married. No Bob for the 10th or is it the 20th time? No, you don't like me Rob, I adore you. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I have no vices. What's it? Well, I do chew bubblegum, but I'm breaking away from it Good Aggie, come on married. No Bob. You're fun to be with you're the life of the party But but until you settle down until you grow up. No darling. No, we'll put my application on fire Well, you're on the top of the stack good Hey some fellas over there want my autograph and I got to get back to the locker room and shed these football ties Look, I'll pick you up about six. Huh? Six will be fine We'll go places dinner a show and around midnight a special treat for you What treat darling?  Look out. That's my tie your time It could be this locker room ought to have another mirror. I think I comb Mardoni's hair Who's here today? I put my court plaster on never mind. Here's O'Sullivan. Hey, you want to see me coach? Yes, Bob Come on outside where we can talk. Okay Coach I proposed to Aggie again and the girls said no you listen. No, I didn't listen. I know Aggie She's a swell kid and she thinks you're great, but she doesn't want a clown for a husband. That's a general idea Dress. Let's let's get out of here Fresh air. What's on your mind coach? Well Bob tomorrow? I think we're going to sign up rally Cooper rally Cooper That's great coach. We need to tackle like rally to plug up that left side of the line You'll come in mighty handy. All right, but here's the rub We're at full strength now and we have to drop somebody to make room for him. Yeah Well, I know who you can drop you should have given him the gate a long time ago Wally Spencer Wally Spencer You're crazy. He's one of our first string backs. He may have been a first-string man five years ago But he's all washed up now. You don't like him. Do you you're getting warm coach?  He doesn't run much interference for me either What's the matter with you guys?  He's a wet blanket coach never cracks a smile He's a has been and he knows it has been Listen the name of Wally Spencer still means something to football fans people still come to see him in action More of them come to see me in action This team's not big enough for both of us coach and as long as you keep Spencer, you're gonna have trouble Well, I hate to let him go Hopkins. He hasn't gotten many more years of football left this year maybe next year That's about all and the guy has a family his family can run interference for me. Can they well get somebody that can put Jerry Grant In this place. I'll work with Jerry. I'll be in there charging every time he carries the ball Jerry will hit the line for me, too. Bob. I wish you'd try to finish out the season with Wally Nothing doing I put up with him as long as I can now you've got a chance to get rid of him And you better do it remember. I haven't signed my next year's contract yet. Okay, Bob. You win Wally Spencer's out This has been an evening to remember Aggie I second the motion the dinner was extra super. I'll give the chef my autograph another hunk of pie more coffee Nothing, thank you. That pie put me 800 calories over my quota. We'll dance it off, honey, Bob Don't you ever get tired tired? They left that word out of my dictionary. I'm full of pep tonight because I'm happy I must turn you down more often that isn't that Aggie some of these days your defense is gonna weaken But I've had some good news today. We're signing Wally Cooper the big Nebraska tackle. No Yes, sir. I got a direct from coach O'Sullivan and to make room for Cooper. He's dropping Wally Spencer. Oh, that's too bad What do you mean? It's too bad. Well, he's a great bag and the fans love him. Well, he's out and from now on We'll have better teamwork. I just I suppose though, but just the same. Let's not spoil a grand evening talking shop I've got to get home early tonight.  Yes, ma'am O'Sullivan's curfew rings all during the training season and besides that I'm getting up early in the morning to drive the Cleveland. Oh, that's right You play the Cleveland Commandos next week. We do we do a bunch of big rough bad boys So we want to get in a week of practice on the Cleveland field Well, you be careful with your driving. Don't worry about my driving I'd rather have 90 on my tombstone than on my speedometer. Don't talk about tombstones Well, and let's talk about my favorite subject and let's not talk about you either Okay, baby. Let's dance Hello, hello Mabel Mabel. Yeah, Mabel give me the desk and make it snappy. Yeah Hello Mac, Al. I got a couple of things here a fire in a lumberyard at 31st in Maine and an auto crash on route 20 Well, Bob Hopkins football star seriously injured Yeah, pretty bad. I guess You got the fire. Okay. Here's the dope on Hopkins Bob Hopkins 23 star back on the Boston Beavers professional football team was seriously injured this morning in an auto accident on route 20 12 miles northeast of Cleveland a small child ran across the road in front of his car Hopkins jammed on his brakes and then swerved across the road to avoid hitting the child and crashed into a tree Hopkins who was riding alone was seriously injured in the crash. The child was unhurt Hopkins was rushed to Fairmont Hospital at a late hour He was reported to be still unconscious Well, that's all I've got now, but I know one of the nurses there and she's gonna call me when there's something to report Yeah, and here's some new stuff on that lumberyard fire Chief Simmons turned in a 411 alarm when he reached the scene and may make it a 511 You Make a win now miss Williams. Oh, thank you. Mr. Hopkins has recovered consciousness But of course you may stay only a minute or two this first time. Yes, I understand right in here. Thank you Bob Bob Aggie. Yes, dear Where what happened? You had an accident Bob.  I'll be all right. Of course you will dear Yeah, what's the matter with with what? With my legs. I can't move my legs. You'll be all right, dear Aggie, I can't move them. Bob, please it takes a little time to get your strength back Oh, isn't that Aggie? Look, I can move my arms in my head, but I can't don't worry about it now, dear You'll be all right. I think you better go now. Yes Bob you better rest for a while, but I'll be right here in the hospital. Just lie back dear Bye for a little while. Aggie, I can't move my legs. I can't move my legs Now if you haven't swallowed that thermometer, mr. Hopkins, I'll take it Thank you Right on the dot 98.6. What's par for the course? That's par your temperature is exactly normal I'm glad there's something normal about me miss finley march finley. I'm your new special special. What special nurse What happened the old one? She was married today Married? Well, that's one way of getting out of here. She'll be back again. Oh, maybe I'll be out of here before then I've been cooped up here for seven eight nine ten eleven weeks to be exact mr. Hopkins nearly three months. Wow Say what are you writing? It's your chart. I know, but how am I doing temperature pulse respiration blood pressure blood count All perfect in other words. I'm a well man From the waist up from the waist down. I'm a cripple. I wouldn't say that Well, what would you say? I'd say that due to an injury of the spine. You're suffering from a temporary paralysis Temporary we believe so. What does dr. Ambrose say? He doesn't say anything hymns and haws and rattles off a lot of technical terms and tells me not to worry Marge, what's the real story? Am I going to walk again? Mr. Hopkins, you know as much about that as I do All anyone can tell you is that lots of people with injuries like yours have recovered Then again lots of them haven't Well, isn't it much better to think of those that do walk again? Thanks for trying to cheer me up, but it's no use. I'll never take another step That's aggy. I don't want to see her too late. Oh dear. I'm already in Hello aggy, and why don't you want to see me? I'm not in the mood for visitors All the more reason why you should have some Well, as long as you're here sit down meet my new special miss finley miss finley miss williams How do you do miss finley? How's the patient? He's all right. I'm not all right I'm hungry. I haven't had a thing since lunch except one thin thermometer I'll go out and put in a double order for dinner. Good. Make it two of everything except the penicillin shots Bob, you're almost your old self again. You want to know the truth aggy? Look at these legs I can't even move one little muscle. I can't even feel that I have legs I'll never walk again. Bob, don't say that. It's true aggy. I know believe me. I've tried to walk I want to walk but it takes more than just wanting to. Bob, you will walk again And until you do walk we can be happy waiting together Together? Aggy, I can't marry you now Bob, you love me, don't you? It's just it.  You're still thinking about yourself the way you feel Well, how about the way I feel? Doesn't that matter? Yes, aggy, of course to me things are no different than they ever were Supposing you are like this for a few weeks a few months more What is that compared to all the rest of our lives? Suppose I'm like this all the rest of our lives. Don't say that don't even think it I can't help thinking of it because it's true aggy. I'll never walk again. Oh, please. I'll never walk again I know who you are Who am I? You're bob hofkins.  Who are you?  Thank you. I can't stay long. I'm saying goodbye to everybody I'm going home today. I'm sorry. I can't get up, but I know you're sick That's why you're here, isn't it? Yes, jenny. I got hurt, but now I'm almost well accepting my legs Your legs don't work, right? No, jenny. They don't work at all. Oh But you'll get better Well, it's nice to think so Don't you think so mr. Bob? No, jenny. I know I'll never walk again. Why? Well, I suppose it's something that just can't be helped, see But what about god? He can help you can't he? What'd you say?  Uh-huh. He's smart.   What jenny I kept praying and praying and praying I see because that's what my mommy says you have to do Keep praying, huh? Uh-huh because you know why Why because the doctors can't do everything all by themselves sometimes So you know what? What I said to god, please god help the doctors make my legs strong You prayed for the doctors too, uh-huh and the nurses too I see So they all started working together doctor nurses and you and god too mr. Bob and god too jenny It was well. It was like teamwork, huh? What? I mean everybody was working together for jenny's legs. Uh-huh That's teamwork and then you know what mr. Bob What after a long long long long time my toe will go You don't say so the other toe wiggle too Then my foot and now look I can walk just as good as anybody see Janie that's wonderful I have to go now mr. Bob. My mommy is just a minute janey Hey, you know something what you've done me more good than anything. I've had here did I Yeah, and you know something else Up until the day. I never knew the meaning of a certain word. What word mr. Bob teamwork, honey teamwork Come in. Hi. Hello, aggy. Hey, is that a new dress? Yes. How do you like it? Say no more now. I know you're getting better. What's been happening? Hey, would you laugh if I told you I've been praying? No bob, you know, I wouldn't laugh But I am a bit curious a little girl wanted in here this morning. She said her name was janey She had infantile paralysis and recovered from it She seemed to think it was the most natural thing in the world. What prayer? Yeah, but she made it sound like teamwork Teamwork with god. I like that bob. So I thought I'd try that kind of a t formation T for teamwork Janie knew better than I did what to say to you. They see if you can find it Would I want to talk to janey some more? I want to talk to her too, bob I want to see this other woman in your life. She's a dangerous rival aggy.  Yes. What's the matter? I don't know it. It must be something dreadful. He may have had a relapse It's bob hopkins. Oh football player. I saw on the papers. He was getting along pretty good Yes, he has been improving but there was a phone message at my hotel telling me to come at once Oh hurry, please hurry. I'll pull in the driveway now. Hang on Hope it's nothing serious. Thank you. Keep the change Fourth floor, please and hurry. Yes, ma'am Do you know if anything's happened to bob hopkins? I haven't heard about anything Well, I got a phone message telling me to rush right over. Nobody said anything to mean this Uh fourth floor. Here you are. Thank you Oh miss finley, what has happened to bob? Why nothing nothing that I know of. Well, I got a phone message to come over immediately There must be something wrong. Well, let's go find out I'm afraid to go in miss finley. You go first. All right Well, what's going on in here margie aggy come here quick. What's the matter?  This should be good Well, hello coach. Do I get my old jersey number 13 back bob hopkins in the flesh coach and as good as ever better Maybe my bob you old linebuster you as I live and breathe its old braggadocio himself flattery will get you nowhere coach Oh, I can't believe it. Last I heard of you. You were still in the hospital I was a wheelchair jockey in those days coach. I still hold the record for the straightaway down the main quarter I got 14 traffic tickets for double parking near the water cooler. Oh, same old bob. Not quite the same coach I'm not bragging anymore. I didn't want to brag about making a comeback. I wanted to let the results speak for themselves What have you been doing? A little research on teamwork. You're as good as ever, huh? I think so coach, but I don't want you to take my word for it Just give me a chance to work out with a team and I'll leave it up to you That's fair enough bob and if you're even half as good as you were you've got a job I hope so coach. I'm thinking to get married. Congratulations. That's allowed aggy doesn't know it yet Says you over the way bob. I uh, suppose you know the walley spencers back on the team He took your place when you were hurt. I know and I saw by the papers the old boy did all right Do you think he can make the grade this year? I don't know bob walley's legs are getting a bit wobbly Well, you just have so many touchdowns in you when you run those out your through It's pretty tough when a guy finds out. He's through. I know Yeah Say, did you ever think about making walley an assistant coach? I think he'd do a swell job with a backfield Say when you had that accident did you hit your head on something?  Yeah, but that was some time ago I've been doing a lot of thinking since then. Well, you have changed for the better. I hope You know, I'm not so proud of the guy used to be I guess I was one of osullivan's biggest headaches. Well, bob.  He'd make a good backfield coach Sure, he would I'll talk to him about it this afternoon. He's coming by pretty soon Good Hello, osullivan may I come in? Well, hello, agnes of course. Bob should have brought you in I wanted to talk business and women are very distracting, especially this one Thank you and speaking of business. There's a little girl outside to see you osullivan She's walley spencer's daughter and she wants to tell you that mr. Spence will be a little late Well, I'll bring her in agnes. She's a cute kid. Yes, she is come in honey Mr. Osullivan wants to see you now coach. I'd like to work out with a team all this week and Hey, look janey. It's janey Mr. Bob. Oh, mr. Bob. Look janey. I'm walking again. Of course, mr. Bob I just knew you would and your name is janey spencer your walley spencer's little girl Yes, mr. Bob. I thought you knew My daddy was the one who told me to see you Janey, we hunt it all over for you. Hey, this is janey. Well janey. How wonderful coach This little girl walked into my hospital room one day. I didn't know who she was but she taught me a lot Well, what do you know? It wasn't me mr. Bob. It was you and god Well, just the same you call the signals on the play janey now. I'm all well again. I have my old job back I think and I'm gonna get married and Oh, I shouldn't have said that but you did say it aggie. I wanted to wait until I found the engagement ring I bought you. I had it in the suit. I was worrying when I got hurt. I've been trying to find it Coach this man can't play football his eyesight's terrible. What do you mean? Darling, I found the ring at the hospital and I've been wearing it ever since Coach blow the whistle for time out the hopkins as they're going into a huddle You have heard t formation starring bob hope with virginia wells Now here is your family theater hostess for tonight Joan leslie Nobody knows the power of prayer But god, we know is listening there Yes miracles lie in the power of prayer Faith that can banish the soul's despair Hope that can shine like a holy light and brighten the spirit's darkest night When your soul is sad with sorrows and care There's strength and hope in a simple prayer When earthly help seems of no avail There's always one friend who will never fail Someone who'll tell you that he understands He'll hold your heart in his gentle hands Just like a child when his father is near With god at your side, there's nothing to fear When days are long and nights have no end When things go wrong, there's always one friend Just lift your eyes the answer is there And you well know the power of prayer Yes, the most wonderful power of prayer is seen when a family gathers together to express their love of god Not as individuals alone but united as a family in the simple words of family prayer Family prayer means oh so much. It means the strengthening of the faith of every member of the family It brings everyone closer together in love and understanding That's why it's so very true A family that prays together stays together Before saying good night I'd like to thank bob hope for his performances bob hopkins and virginia wells for her portrayal of agnus Our thanks to harry lorence for writing tonight's play to max tear for his music and to nick kenny for the poem of prayer This production of family theater incorporated was directed by david young Others who appeared in tonight's play were ken christy who played coach or sullivan and toben as the nurse marlene aims howard culver hell sawyer and roland morris Next week our family theater will co-star Warner baxter and pedro de cordoba in the prayer that won the west Your host will be henry fonda. This is john lesley saying good night and god bless you This series of the family theater broadcast is made possible by the thousands of you who felt the need for this kind of program By the mutual broadcasting system which has responded to this need And by a friend of the new york fondling hospital which cares for homeless and motherless babies Without distinction of race creed or color tony lofranos speaking This is the mutual broadcasting system


American Horror Story 1984 has reached its conclusion, and today I'll recap the major plot points that unfolded in the finale, and then go into my review for the episode. So let's begin with the recap. The year is 2019, and grown-up Bobby Richter hikes to Camp Redwood in search of his father, who he believes has been sending him money over the years. The camp appears to be abandoned since the 1989 festival. He meets Monterra and Trevor, who tell him that his dad is dead. Flashback to 1989, where Trevor blocks the roads to Camp Redwood and tells visitors and performers that the festival is cancelled. Margaret shoots and kills Courtney for telling Trevor that Kaja-Gugu was murdered, and Trevor tells Margaret that he's divorcing her, and then Margaret shoots Trevor three times. Dying right outside of campground, Trevor desperately tries to crawl through the entrance. Brooke helps carry Trevor through the entrance, and Trevor dies at Camp Redwood. Trevor's ghost kills Bruce and throws him over the fence so he won't be tied to the camp.  They establish a kill watch system so that they can keep killing Ramirez at every revival. Back in 2019, Trevor and Montana tell Bobby that the reason they keep killing Ramirez is to protect Bobby. Chef Birdie and Chet are on Ramirez's death watch, and Birdie flirts with Chet.  He finds Bobby, Trevor, and Montana. Trevor gets stabbed repeatedly while Bobby and Montana run into the woods. Bobby runs into Ray, and Chet, Birdie, and Montana overpower Ramirez while Bobby runs off. Richard Ramirez throws a knife in Bobby's back in the two fight, then the ghosts catch up and fend off Ramirez while Bobby escapes. Montana tells Bobby to go to Red Meadows Asylum and find the medical director. After being apprehended by security at Red Meadows Asylum, Bobby finds Donna, the medical director. Donna tells Bobby that his father is innocent and that Margaret was behind the both massacres. Donna tells Bobby about the night of Halloween 1989 where the ghosts pulled up to Margaret's cabin. Donna attacks Margaret, Brooke pushes her into a mirror, and Margaret shoots Brooke. Trevor chops off Margaret's arms and shoots them over the property line using a woodchipper.  Back in 2019, Donna says that she was the sole survivor of the night. Bobby tells Donna about the money, and they travel to Pineville, Oregon to trace back the sender. They find a middle-aged Brooke Thompson who apologizes for not telling Donna that she survived. Brooke says that the thought of Redwood was too overwhelming and she needed to forget Redwood in order to move on. Flashback to 1989 where Ray takes Brooke to die off the Camp Redwood property lines. But someone from inside the camp called an ambulance and Brooke survives. Back to 2019 where Bobby returns to Camp Redwood again and finds Margaret's ghost, who says she can take him to his father. Margaret says she died before she got put into the woodchipper and she's been hiding ever since. Margaret tries to kill Bobby, but Benjamin appears and stops her. Benjamin stabs her and then takes Bobby to leave before she comes back. Margaret stabs Benjamin and begins to chase Bobby. LaVinia appears and tells Margaret that Bobby deserves a happy ending. LaVinia then stabs Margaret and Bobby escapes the campsite and looks back at the ghost of his father, grandmother, and uncle looking back at him. The end. Alright, so I have some mixed emotions on this finale, but I do think it did a lot of things well. But I'll just get my complaints out of the way first so that we can end on the positive notes. Okay, so my general feeling is that the finale was missing the punch it needed and the punch that American Horror Story finales typically have. It feels like the episode was an epilogue to a climax that we never really get to see. Since episode 6, it's been building towards a climax of Halloween 1989 and what we did see of that in this episode was very anti-climactic. None of the musical acts were there, nothing really happens until the ghosts gang up on Margaret who takes down Donna and Brooke way too easily. That whole confrontation should have been way more effective and that should have been a very climactic moment. I did like how Margaret's death was so brutal and she definitely deserved that brutal of a death. However, it feels like the Brooke and Margaret confrontation didn't really get to happen. This episode was definitely the slowest of the season, which was good because the finale didn't seem rushed. It took its time to do what it did and it was paced well as an episode. I would say that Apocalypse's finale did feel rushed, but I can't really say that this finale felt rushed.  And it did that well. In terms of the 2019 scenes with Donna and Brooke, I am satisfied with how those felt and I'm glad they both get to have a happy ending. Shout out to Brooke Thompson for being the first Emma Roberts character to live through a season of American Horror Story. I would say that scene between Brooke, Donna, and Bobby was probably my favorite scene of the episode. Benjamin gets reunited with his son, Lovina gets to see her grandson living longer than his namesake, and Bobby gets to see Bobby. All of that was good for me. I felt satisfied that these characters get a sweet ending after having so many tragedies over all of their lives. The scene where the ghosts sking up on Richard Ramirez is also a standout to me. The slow-motion CGI blood and over-the-topness of it all was very unique visually and I enjoyed it. Overall, this finale did a good job at ending the storylines of the surviving three characters, Donna, Brooke, and Bobby, but it seemed to gloss over the anti-climactic outcome of the 1989 festival. Donna and Brooke survive, but Benjamin and Brooke are still cited as the culprits for their respective massacres. Margaret Booth is never outed as the most prolific serial killer of modern times, and the only justice that is served is that she is bound to camp Redwood with her victims, which is a choice because the ghosts of Redwood don't seem to get much relief. Aside from Benjamin, Bobby, and Lavinia, who can just picnic all day, the rest of them have to deal with a still awful Margaret Booth, and they still have to keep killing Richard Ramirez over and over again. So in terms of closure on Xavier, Montana, Chet, Rey, and all the ghosts, it seems like they got the short end of the stick. I am glad that the general mood of this finale was happy endings, as that hasn't really happened in a long time on American Horror Story, and I think this season, although it did get very dark at points, I think it's one of the feel-good seasons of American Horror Story. It already feels like an old friend, and it definitely delivers a specific tone, and the characters are all instantly familiar, and the warm stylization of it all is definitely unique to 1984 only. Reflecting on the season, I think that the first five episodes were gorgeously done and very consistent, and the plot definitely pivots at episode 6 into a slightly less exciting final four episodes. Episode 7 is a gem in the middle of the season, and it works as a prequel to the events of the other episodes. I still think that these last four episodes are great, but the first five episodes were genius in hindsight altogether. I may be being a bit generous with my rating, but I do think that the finale had some missed opportunities, but in the end, it had a satisfying conclusion, with three deserving characters receiving a rare happy ending, so I give episode 9 entitled Final Girl, 8 Montana Dukes out of 10. Be sure to let me know how you'd rate it in the comments below. Looking back at my ratings for each episode, American Horror Story 1984 averaged an 8.8 out of 10, and I would definitely rank this season within my top three seasons of American Horror Story. My rankings change all the time, but fresh off the finale, I would put 1984 within my top three seasons of American Horror Story. It went for a very specific genre and style, and it maintained a whimsical yet terrifying and boring tone throughout each episode, and I would definitely say the season is consistent. I'd like to thank you all who stuck with these reviews and recaps through the season, make sure you give this video a like and make sure you're subscribed, and I'll see you next year.


Hello everybody, hooded cobra commander 788 here, it's time for another vintage GI Joe toy review and this time we're going to look at a figure that I recently acquired and it's a character that's somewhat controversial. This is a character that is not universally loved to say the least. We're going to look at the 1986 cobra emperor, Serpentor. This is Serpentor, the cobra emperor, the character that at one point deposed a cobra commander as the leader of that terrorist organization. Serpentor was available in 1986 and 1987. He was discontinued in 1988 and he was available later for a few years as a male away figure from Hasbro Direct. When Serpentor was discontinued in 1988, we didn't exactly get a replacement for him, however in 1987, while Serpentor was still on the shelves, we got a new version of cobra commander to challenge Serpentor for control of cobra. We also got Cobra Law, which was introduced in the 1987 GI Joe animated movie and wasn't so much a replacement for Serpentor as they were an extension of the concept. Serpentor and his air chariot were worth two flag points and since he came with a vehicle, he would be classified as a vehicle driver, however he was more of a deluxe figure that was sold at a higher price point and came with a small vehicle. Really mainly you were buying the figure and you were getting the vehicle as a bonus. Other deluxe figures that were sold like this with small vehicles included Zartan and Sergeant Slaughter. I'm going to set the air chariot aside and we're just going to look at Serpentor for now. Let's take a look at Serpentor's accessories starting with his only real weapon, his dagger. And this dagger as you can see is very tiny. The dagger is somewhat ornate with a little bit of a design to the hilt and the handle. Looks really nice, it's pretty cool, but it is very small so it does tend to get lost very often. Some of the male away versions of Serpentor came with no cape and two daggers. Now let's look at the cape and this cape is extremely delicate, it's very rare to find one of these capes that is not torn. It's made out of this kind of very thin see-through even fabric and it tends to tear at the arm holes which it has on this one. If your Serpentor still has his cape I would recommend removing the cape very carefully. Try not to put any stress on those arm holes, just very gently remove it. If you're concerned about condition and you have a cape that isn't torn and you want to keep it that way you might just put it in a plastic bag and put it away somewhere safe rather than leave it on the action figure and maybe if you want the action figure to have the cape get a repro cape instead of using the original. There are really just very few of these originals left that don't have a rip in the arm. To me it's absolutely crazy to make an accessory out of this material and sell it as a children's toy. I mean whoever decided to do this must not have been familiar with children and how they tend to play with their toys. This thing is incredibly thin, it's really just a few molecules away from non-existence. I'm not sure exactly what this material is but it's really barely there. It's like it's made out of pixie sneezes and wishes. I'm going to carefully set this aside so we can continue looking at Serpentor's accessories.  This head shroud has some pretty incredible detail on it with like the snake skin scaling like that definitely very snake like. You can see around the back peg it has an impression of the back of the action figure to help it fit a bit more snugly and this head shroud completes the look of a hooded cobra when it's on the action figure so his head really looks like a cobra now.  And this cobra was made out of a softer plastic so it had some bend and some stretch to it. It's a little bit rubbery and that's good. It helps keep it from breaking. It also gives it kind of a snake like quality. There were a lot of variations on the color of this snake and gold, this kind of solid gold color was the most common color. It came also in a slightly browner color like this one. This one's a little bit more brown but it also came in some other colors that ranged from gold to brown to almost greenish. Let's look at the articulation on Serpentor. He had the typical articulation of 1986 GI Joe action figures. That means he could turn his head from left to right like that. He could also look up and down. His neck was on a ball joint. He could move his arm up at the shoulder about so far. He could also swivel it all the way around. Swivel is a little bit hindered by this sculpting of a snake on his shoulder. He could move his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the bicep. He could swivel his arm all the way around. The figure was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside so he could move at the torso a little bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could move his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and he could bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's take a look at the sculpted design and color of Serpentor starting with his head. And as you can see on his head he has this cobra mask. It's a cobra snake head. And his real face is kind of poking out there from behind the fangs. And this is a very unique look even for G.I. Joe action figures at the time. You just didn't see this kind of outlandish costuming at the time. These fangs are not really sharp. They're sort of rounded off. But they do break frequently. So you have to watch out for that if you're getting a Serpentor action figure. Make sure all four fangs, two top and two bottom are there and not broken off. There is a variant with these Serpentors that came with the air chariot. Most of them have this sort of normal flesh tone neck as you can see there. But a few of them came with a yellow neck. Yellow sort of painted on there. And that looks a little different. I have to assume that the choice to go with yellow was to make it look like a continuation of this yellow on his chest. But at some point they changed that and they decided it just looked better with a regular flesh tone neck. I do prefer the more common version. I think the yellow neck version just looks a little bit odd. Looking at Serpentor's chest we can see a continuation of the snake theme with the gold snake scales and the yellow ridged chest. And it looks like he has a couple green snakes coiled around him like this. In the G.I. Joe animated movie these sculpted on snakes were depicted as alive and moving. Which I think is creepy and weird and I don't really care for it. I can kind of accept this look as a costume but having part of the costume alive and moving around I just think takes things a little bit too far. Lots of sculpted scaling on the back and those green snakes. It really is very impressively detailed. Now this bright shiny gold color here that is not paint. That is plastic. So you don't run into the problem with a lot of the shiny metallic colored paint that Hasbro used in which it would rub off the action figures and that would make it look really bad. But this is actually the base plastic color and that was a good choice if you're going to go with this much gold. His arms do not have the scaling pattern but they are that same gold base color and he has some extra large muscles sculpted onto his arm. Not all G.I. Joe figures had these sort of bulging muscles on the upper arms. So I think this is to indicate that he is very physically powerful. The sculpting on these extra muscular characters always struck me as a bit odd. It looks like they have extra biceps all the way around their arm but their elbows and their forearms are normal size so it looks kind of like a reverse Popeye. His left forearm features this snake head gauntlet with fangs and a yellow glove. That looks pretty cool. His right arm has this silver painted electronic device. Not sure exactly what that's supposed to be but probably some kind of communication device maybe I guess. Like a Dick Tracy wrist radio or something whatever. And on his right arm he has this sort of snake themed scaly gauntlet and another yellow glove. His waist piece continues the snake theme with the gold scaling and this yellow ridge portion continues down and it looks like he has a green snake belt that goes all the way around and a sculpted snake head right there in the middle. His thighs feature more of that gold snake skin scaling. It's a little bit sloppier here on the thighs than it is on his back and upper body. He has these green thigh pads and he has knee pads and that's nice. You know I like knee pads so at least he has that going for him. And that snake theme continues down to the bottom with more gold scaling, criss cross snake pattern across his shins and we finish it up with some green snake scale skin boots I guess. Let's take a look at Serpentor's file card and this file card would have been printed on the back of the box that the air cherry came in. There's nothing on the other side, it's just the back of the box. It has his faction as Cobra, which is certainly correct. He is the Cobra Emperor. It has a portrait of Serpentor and this would have come from the artwork on the front of the box. It has his codename as Serpentor and in fact that is not his codename. That is his name. He doesn't have any other name. He was created as Serpentor and so that's just who he is. It says he is the Cobra Emperor, which is a position he had to wrestle away from Cobra Commander. The file card is broken up into two paragraphs and this top paragraph says, a secret cabal of Cobra scientists under the direction of the interrogator and Destro combed the tombs at sarcophagi and relics of the great despots of history to find cells with DNA traces. Okay, this requires some explanation. The interrogator is referring to Dr. Meinbender, who was originally intended to be an interrogator. He was later billed on his file card as the Master of Mind Control, but at the time Serpentor's file card was written, they may not have had a name for Dr. Meinbender at the time. In fact, Dr. Meinbender in the comic book was first introduced with a different name. They called him Dr. Brainwave. Later on, he sort of became Cobra's resident mad scientist. Destro of course was Cobra's weapons supplier and although he was an agent of Cobra, his loyalty was not entirely to Cobra. Destro is the type of character that would scheme against Cobra Commander to create someone to replace him. From these long dead genetic blueprints, they produced a composite clone with the military genius of Napoleon, the ruthlessness of Julius Caesar, the daring of Hannibal and the fiscal acumen of Attila the Hun, the ultimate Cobra Emperor, a master of political intrigue and a brilliant tactician. He is capable of wrestling power from Cobra Commander for the benefit of the interrogator and Destro. Fortunately for the Joes, the Cobra Emperor's own ambitions were not taken into consideration by his creators. Serpentor is a clone made up of the DNA of a bunch of dead military leaders, but in the G.I. Joe comic book, one of his DNA donors was none other than Storm Shadow and it became a pretty cool way to resurrect Storm Shadow who had been killed in a previous issue. So Destro and Dr. Meinbender created the ultimate leader and he is going to serve his own aims, not theirs. This bottom section has a quote that says, his eyes have seen the legions of Rome trample the galls and nervii into the dust. The galls and nervii is referring to Julius Caesar's victory in the Gallic Wars in the years 58-50 BC. His hand lifted the horse hair baton that signaled the first charge of the Carthaginian armored elephant phalanx. The Carthaginian developed and deployed war elephants during the Punic Wars. His ears have heard the rattle of French Queer Assers on the streets of Moscow. These French Queer Assers on the streets of Moscow is referring to the Napoleonic Wars. In 1812 the battle of Moscow led to the fall of Moscow to Napoleon, but it is his mind we must fear the most. The thoughts of the Cobra Emperor have not drifted from global conquest since the reign of King Solomon. In one paragraph, this file card sweeps through millennia of history, this is like a little mini history lesson, and it sets up Serpentor as a very strong character. Whatever anyone might think about Serpentor, this file card is very well written and intriguing. Okay, let's set Serpentor aside and look at his air chariot now. The air chariot like all other GI Joe vehicles came with a set of instructions which on the other side had blueprints and I'll be using these blueprints to describe some of the features of the toy. You can see the Cobra air chariot has a cobra snake theme like its driver and it has this big cobra head out up in front and it has this head, it moves with the handlebars in the back. The blueprints call it a cobra shroud covered radome so there's supposed to be a radar in there. It has this battle shield and intakes for the horizontal engines. It has these two forward facing weapons here and they do pivot a little bit and the blueprints call these autoload 7.62mm strike attack guns. It has some detailing on the underside and at the control panel it has these handlebars which we already saw. It has a foot peg and that's to hold the action figure on so Serpentor can ride his air chariot. Just put the peg and the hole in the bottom of the foot of the action figure and he can ride it just like that. It has a pair of black stabilizer fins in the back here and then it has the hover engine intake and on the bottom it has a little handle which you can spin to make the hover engine spin. So this thing is supposed to hover in the air, that's why it's called the air chariot. I think this is a spectacularly bad idea. For one thing the hover engine is in the back and the rest of the weight of the vehicle is in the front so if you turn this thing on it's just going to flip end over end like that. It's not going to actually fly or hover. Another problem is it has an open intake that spins and it's directly behind the driver so if he takes one step back his foot is going to get caught in there and chewed up and the driver of this vehicle is wearing a cape so that increases the chance that he's going to get caught up in his own engine and then that's all she wrote for Serpentor. Hmmm, I guess I didn't have to worry about that guy after all. Looking at the air chariot overall I have to say I appreciated more now as an adult collector than I did as a kid. I guess it would be pretty impressive for the troops to see Serpentor flying in on this thing that would be pretty awe inspiring. As a kid though I really just didn't have much use for this vehicle. Looking at Serpentor overall, man this guy is weird. One thing he's really gold and he really is taking that Cobra theme to the extreme. I mean the Cobra commander figures and other Cobra troopers before him, I mean they had a Cobra symbol but they wore you know sort of pseudo military uniforms but Serpentor essentially wants to be the Cobra. Serpentor's origin story in the G.I. Joe animated series and in the G.I. Joe comic book was similar. However the story was told in two completely different ways. In the G.I. Joe animated series his origin story was told in a multi-part mini series whereas in the comic book Serpentor arrives somewhat abruptly. His origin story suddenly just sort of comes up all in one issue. One gets the impression that Larry Hama the writer of the G.I. Joe comic book wasn't entirely on board with Serpentor and kind of had to shoehorn Serpentor's origin story into the overall story arc that he was already working on. Serpentor just doesn't feel like a G.I. Joe character and he never really has. Now as you probably know I prefer the more realistic military side of the G.I. Joe line. However over the years I have accepted some elements of science fiction and fantasy within G.I. Joe for instance Zartan who is not a very realistic character at all. But I always prefer to have G.I. Joe grounded in something more realistic. It didn't have to be perfectly realistic but I appreciated that G.I. Joe at least in the comic books sort of existed in something that kind of resembled the real world. The introduction of Serpentor though really pushed the limits of what I was willing to accept as a part of G.I. Joe and I probably would have completely rejected a character as ridiculous as Serpentor is if it had not been for the really superb way he was written in the G.I. Joe comic book. After all you have a character that's an amalgam of all these great military leaders from history so Larry Hama sort of used Serpentor like a history lesson. This ridiculous character in the snake costume became like a teaching tool. I also appreciated how in the comic book they didn't just get all the DNA of all these great military leaders to create Serpentor because as you probably know DNA does not entode memories or experience or anything like that. So Larry Hama addressed this by using the brain wave scanner to implant all of these alleged memories, supposed memories from these military leaders into Serpentor. The brain wave scanner was a piece of science fiction technology that had already been introduced in the G.I. Joe comic book and we had already kind of accepted its existence. So by using the brain wave scanner to help create Serpentor Larry Hama sort of helped ease us into this new fantasy element that we were getting. And I have to admit after re-watching the animated miniseries Arise Serpentor Arise it's really pretty good. That's right I said something good about the G.I. Joe cartoon. So we had Serpentor and I remember as a kid not being thrilled about this but I accepted Serpentor reluctantly. Even with Serpentor we still had a semi-realistic military line to ground the fantasy but unfortunately the year after Serpentor was introduced Hasbro decided to take it one step further and they introduced these guys. These guys are Cobra Law and they are the main factor in my decision to leave G.I. Joe behind. When I was a kid in 1987 Cobra Law was one step too far. So now that we've looked at Serpentor the character that represents where I drew the line for what I was willing to accept in G.I. Joe now we really should look at the characters that crossed that line and we will in next week's video. That was my review of Serpentor and his air chariot and his file card and of course his yellow neck variant. I hope you enjoyed it and if you're thinking of getting a Serpentor action figure I hope you found this video informative. If you liked it make sure you give it a thumbs up on YouTube and don't forget to subscribe. Now I've got a lot of great new G.I. 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Look man, this gotta be probably one of my worst CPT moments. Cause y'all know I'm on CPT time, man. And but at the same time, I'm like, Hey, I just can't, I can't let the game go to waste. I can't let the moments that we captured go to waste. So if, if y'all don't watch this, trust me, I get it. The game was what, two weeks ago, something like that. It was, it feel like it was ages ago, but A, it still happened. But anybody that does watch, I appreciate it. I hope you can enjoy some of the experience that we had at the game. Cause I got everything that I could. My camera ended up dying, but it's all good. It is what it is. But I hope y'all enjoy this, I guess sort of vlog from the Ravens and Bucks game in Tampa.  No jazz, but a man. You two team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, I done made it. I done made it. Wood, white, and gray. And that was that. Hey, so anybody that, that watched this vlog, this experience and whatnot, I appreciate it.  But I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. Thank you. He like, you two team, you see my boy, he like, I done made it. Shout out to the Ravens.


Welcome back everybody. So yesterday I ran a poll asking people what they thought about the fact that NBC news was about to interview the Capitol police officer who shot and killed Ashley Babbit It looks like most of us agree that this is not a good idea and would lead to a very bad outcome And I think that we've been proven right on that one of the reasons I knew this interview was going to be a complete waste of time is who's giving it Lester Holt a well-known Democrat donator and a guy who's outright admitted that he can't be fair to both sides of the story the Unprecedented attacks on the press in this period I'm sure will fill plenty of books and be studied in classrooms, but I have a few early observations I'll share about where this moment brings us and what we can learn Number one is I think it's become clearer that fairness is overrated The only thing this interview has done is cement this new standard that it's okay for an officer to shoot somebody That's unarmed. They just one have to be white and to be political opposition to the Democrat Party I mean the fact is way more unarmed white people are shot by police But you never hear about that only the cherry-picked stories that involve a white officer and a black suspect We know this because for the last couple years now We've been told that any time a person of a certain skin color is shot by a police whether they're unarmed or not It's murder. So let's just go through this interview real quick. I have a couple things. I want to say about it His decision to use deadly force against a rioter as she climbed through a barricaded door that leads to the house Chamber in the month since he's been the target of threats cutting off my head You know very vicious and cruel things racist things There were some racist attacks as well All right, so right off the bat We're being told that this guy is actually a victim and of course he's a victim of racism Even though in this situation it was the black cop who shot the unarmed white lady So you can see already that the normal standards that would be applied here are just right out the window We literally have violent communist mobs under the banner of antifa and BLM Showing up not just the cops homes to threaten them But the Democrat Party's political opposition and these people are being incited and being given cover from the media I'm gonna tell you what I think about the rest of this interview But first take just a quick moment to hear about this special offer from healthwithdronetech.com Studies show that the adult body produces 10% less collagen every decade if you're over 40 That should terrify you collagen is the glue that holds our bodies together if you're seeing more defined wrinkles or feeling lethargic Realize it has nothing to do with your diet sleep schedule workout routine or whether you smoke or drink It has all to do with your body's natural collagen production This is why I highly recommend healthwithdronetech.com. I've noticed that I look younger have fewer wrinkles and have more energy Since taking my multi collagen my skin specifically looks and feels so much firmer I didn't have to get on a new diet sleep more or start exercising for it to work Anyone over 40 should be taking advantage of this new opportunity and anti-aging technology learn more by going to www.healthwithdronetech.com furthermore You'll get 51% off your first bottle if you order today plus a 60-day money-back guarantee I believe I showed the upmost carriage on January 6 Okay, I'm having trouble keeping up here So now your job is to shoot unarmed people who aren't presenting a threat if Ashley Babbitt was truly coming through the window And you felt threatened. Why didn't you just grab her tackler and arrest her? Of course, you didn't do that. You just pointed the gun and murdered her responsible that day for securing the house Chambers bird couldn't see what Americans were witnessing on their TVs But he could hear it in the pleas from other officers. Were you afraid that day? I was very afraid. What are you hearing on your radio? I'm hearing about the breaches of different barricaded areas Officers being overrun officers being down. Did you ever hear a call or a report of shots fire during any of this? As a matter of fact, I did there was reports of shots fired through the house main door Except there were no shots at the Capitol. What is he talking about? He just let's him make the claim and now it's out there in the public conscious typical drive-by media bullshit I wonder if he was hearing any radio chatter about the fact that most of those people had just been let in and Were walking around peacefully as if they were on a tour I mean even in the video that they just showed there if this was such a murderous threatening mob Then why were they staying within the velvet ropes? They want you to believe that something way worse happened there than what actually happened and they prove it every time They show the footage of people pushing or being mildly rowdy with police or just walking around or maybe just waving flags If this is so threatening then why didn't the officers at the Capitol feel as threatened when moms and Democrats invaded to try and stop the Confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh or how about when George Bush won in 2004? Democrats claim the election was stolen and then they rioted and actually attacked Bush's motorcade Bush's limo hit the gas To prevent an even larger riot yet somehow nobody was shot and killed Officers barricaded the door what he considered the last line of defense. I've been yelling and screaming as loud as I was Please stop get back get back Stop we had our weapons drawn Bird only his hand and gun visible Targeted a figure trying to climb through a window. You're ultimately hoping that Your commands will be complied with it was 35 years old an Air Force veteran Trump supporter and QAnon follower. There you go. That was the justification for the shooting right there Forget what she was doing. She was a Trump supporter.  We promise We're just gonna keep repeating that claim until it's true But this is exactly what I'm talking about folks Lester Holt and this guy want you to think that it was okay to kill this woman because she's a Trump supporter and Because she believed in QAnon and she was trespassing I mean, can you even see what's going on in that video? They keep showing they just show him go almost a point blank range And shoot he keeps claiming that he was telling everybody to stop stop But you can't even see him his arms are just poking out from behind the corner Not to mention those doors are closed and everybody's pretty loud. You can't really hear anything Is there any actual proof that he did give these commands? Of course not and does Lester Holt ask for it? Of course not so it seems like that's the game. They're trying to play here like oh well She wasn't complying with orders one. She was not being arrested again She was surrounded by fully geared riot police who were not arresting her And what evidence is there at all that she heard any commands again? I'd like to point out that you couldn't even see this guy He was around the corner the doors were closed and it was really loud and to be giving commands that he Expect someone with to comply with or else he's gonna shoot and kill them He needs to make sure that they actually even hear his commands Is there any indication whatsoever that Ashley Babbitt heard any commands from this officer before being shot? I seriously doubt it because as you saw in that video He was hiding around the corner She probably didn't even see him as she was up in that window But again, we don't know because there's no real investigation into these details because any one of these little Details could crumble their narrative completely when you fired What could you see? Where were you aiming you're taught to aim for center mass The subject was sideways and I could not see her full motion of her hands or anything Yeah, I know that everything you're saying sounds like it's completely legitimate to have shot and murdered this woman I mean look at his face.  He could have taken besides lethal force because that's exactly what he would do if it had been a white cop in a Black BLM protester. I mean just look at how insane the media went when the National Guard had to use tear gas against a violent Mod that was attacking the White House and oh by the way all of those headlines against Trump turned out to be complete lies Yeah, in this case somehow a 98 pound unarmed woman was somehow some kind of insane threat that she had to be murdered Oh, I guess her movement you know caused the discharge to Fall where it did and what did you think this individual was doing at that at that moment? She was posing a threat The fact that you weren't aware whether she was armed or not. Did that alter the decision-making? It did not there were other officers in other potentially life-threatening situations who didn't use their service weapons that day I'm sure it was a terrifying situation I can only control my reaction my training my level expertise because it's my job No, you didn't you just murdered a 98 pound unarmed woman. That's all you did You didn't do your job if that was your job then other officers would have done the same as you But they didn't the officers who were literally right next to Ashley Babbitt didn't feel any need to either arrest her or shoot her You're the only one who did that It's all very strange because what have we been hearing for the last couple years that any time a police shoot somebody who's unarmed It was wrong. It was murder and it demands justice yet somehow the media always seems to cherry pick the stories that involve a white cop And a black suspect while always ignoring the details because they're inconvenient to the narrative a great example This would be Jacob Blake who sexually assaulted a woman then fought the police who were there to arrest him While he had a knife and was trying to get in his car to kidnap two children They shot him and the media acted like the guy was completely innocent and the cops were murderers which led to riots Incited essentially by the Democrats and their state media who didn't want to talk about the inconvenient detail All right, folks I'm gonna stop it there for my own health if you want to donate to the justice for Ashley Babbitt legal fund I'll put the link for that in the description or pin comment I think it's an important thing to do because ultimately they look at us all like Ashley Babbitt and they can rationalize doing the exact same thing to all of us


It is a special honor to be here today to celebrate the pioneers of television in Africa. Exactly 60 years ago today, Chief of Anthony Aulo, a premier of the West End region, then flanked by the Governor-General, Sir John Banking, Chief Anthony Aulo was the region's minister of information, and Chief Tizifala, the first board chair of the West End media broadcasting organization, formally entered his peoples by commissioning the WNTT first in Africa. And this was ahead of China. China only got television in 1962. Canada got television in 1967. It had a music line in 1960, and several European countries never liked it. It only got television in 1960. Ireland in 1961, Greece in 1966, and Malta in 1962. It was first in Africa. It was first in many parts of Asia. It was, I remind you, even in Europe. We do not even talk at all about this and Europe. It then was historic for three reasons. Firstly, it demonstrated the capacity of the Nigerian mind to conceive, and achieve anything no matter how complicated or difficult. Secondly, it demonstrates how visionary leadership can inspire and lead people from the lowest levels to the highest levels of human imagination. Thirdly, it exemplifies the use of public resources for the public good. The WNTT was built to inform and to educate and to undertake. And as Papa himself said on that day 16 years ago, television is a powerful influence for good. It would ordinarily have been unimaginable that somehow in the parts of the very yet to the independent bacteria a man and his team would build a television station in three months. The first, as we have seen, in many parts of the world. But for the man it was, Papa bothered me all along. It wasn't so surprising. Because he had laid out a plan for the rapid development of Western Asia which included physical infrastructure and human capacity development. The plan included free and compulsory education. As of the date of the inauguration of the WNTT almost a million children went to school in the West African region. 41% of the West African region's budget was spent on education. The highest proportion, the highest proportion at that time anywhere in the world, anywhere in the world. In the free world in particular, it was obvious that those who understood the value of education used it as a powerful opponent for the advancement of their peoples and the baccalaureate of the students. So today as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the WNTT we also celebrate what is possible in our nation and in our states. We celebrate also what vision, hard work and a commitment to the public good can do. But as Ambassador Parou made a said the celebration of the phenomenal achievement in 1959 would be wasted unless we recognize that the achievement represents sturdy shoulders for us to stand on. And that today we can do more. And that the vision of our world was to build a people capable of excelling beyond even his own achievements. Every generation has a historic responsibility to reach for the highest peaks that human capacity can achieve. Today we are the most advanced moment in science, in technology and innovation in human history. The mobile phone, the smartphones that you have in your hands have more computing power than all of the computing power that the Apollo space ship that took night to the moon had in 1969. Today every smartphone has more computing power than all that the Apollo space ship had in 1969. So all things are possible and we are equal. Let us be inspired by the past words that our only limit is our imagination. And congratulations to the foundation of the 4th Ibarian Television and to all of us friends, family and admirers of the 5 years. Thank you very much.


I'm starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Rochester, Larry Stevens, and your school is not welcome. Ladies and gentlemen, today we're coming down the home stretch of our radio season. So, before starting our final show, let's go out to Jack Benny's house where Jack is taking another violin lesson from his famous French music teacher, Professor LeBlanc. But before we go, let me ask you a question. Can it be the trees that fill the breeze with rare and magic perfume? Oh, no, it isn't the trees. It can, on the southern north. I keep telling you, not that way. Play it again. Yes, sir. Let's see, let's see. Can it be the trees that fill the breeze with rare and magic perfume? I don't know, but I smell something. Something with leaves. But Professor, I've done so many exercises. I'd rather play something like souvenir. Very well, very well. Play it, play it to anything. Thank you. Seed like sheep, not cheesecloth. Well, maybe I ought to get my other violin. If it gets freezing, yeah, never mind. Shall I play souvenir again? Maybe later, but right now, let us get back to the exercises. And this time I will count for you. Yes, sir. One, and two, and three, and four, and... Let me know that you are striking, then your thumb, you're not hitchhiking. Maybe not a little thinner, I don't want to lose my thinner. I am sorry I left Paris, you are even worse than Harris. Miss Shabrini, Miss Shabrini, how long have you been playing your violin? Oh, I play the violin since, well, since I was a little baby, a little baby. Yeah, in fact, if you look closely on my violin, you can see my teeth mark. Miss Shabrini, after hearing you play, those could be anybody's. Now, wait a minute, I'm telling you to teach me not to insult me. If I'm not playing so well today, maybe it's because my fingernails are too long. Long fingernails have nothing to do with it. Well, your fingernails are short. They were long when I came in here. Sitting around a lot.  Just spend more minutes than it lets me. She is through. Finished? That's right. Then you will give me the other half of that five-dollar bin. Yes, yes, of course. Now, if you don't mind, I'll go back to Sylvain here. I wouldn't care if you went back to walk Egan. No, you... Goodbye, Miss Shabrini. But Professor, I am going back to the cash bar. Goodbye. Hello, Egan. Oh, Rochester. Rochester! You may not be going out, and I told him I wanted him to drive me to the studio. Oh, well, I'll call Mary. She'll drive me home. Mary, not so fast. Oh, Jack, why is it every time I drive, you're so jittery. I can't help it. I'm as nervous as a cat. Well, stop arching your back and sit down. Don't drive so fast. Well, if you don't like the way I drive, why don't you take a taxi cab? You know very well why. The last time we rode in a cab, we had that horrible accident. Oh, yes. The cab hit a bump and the meter jumped a dollar and a half. I don't mean that time. Besides, my insurance covered it. But anyway, as long as I'm riding with you, take it easy. And, Jack, next time get Rochester to drive you to the studio. Well, he was supposed to, but he left the house without letting me know. I wonder where he went. He's up to those. Mary, look out. Oh, there you go again. Turn on the radio and relax. Okay. I'll turn on the short way. Maybe I can get some police calls. Calling police cars 17, 21, and 43. Calling cars 17, 21, and 43. Drive your cars to the corner of Fort and Vermont and see Mad Man Month. He'll give you the craziest crisis. I better try another station. Does Vivian know that her sister Edith is trying to steal her husband? Will Gwendolyn be arrested for putting arsenic in William's creamed mint? When will they realize that their innocent looking border, Mr. Winterbottom, is really a Japanese saboteur? And the tramp who's sleeping in their cellar is none other than Robert Dalton of the FBI? When will mother realize that the sticky stuff which is ruining her victory garden is the start of an oil gusher which will make them all millionaires?  Now, you know, that's my favorite serial program. Oh, last week, you said the same thing about the adventures of metallic cronk pipe, girl horse doctor. Well, I guess I'm the sick old type. I'll get another seat. Ladies and gentlemen, are you embarrassed by getting five o'clock shadow at 3.30? Suffer from moist, oily skin. Would you like to have your eyes dry? Why not try a sim for these two men? Our sponsor and our quartet. I'm going to miss them during the summer. I'd like to miss them right now. And now, ladies and gentlemen, for the feature spot on our program where we interview interesting personalities from all walks of life, I bring you the butler of a very famous man. Your name, please. Did you hear that? Yes, so that's where he went. Rochester, I understand that you've been in Mr. Benny's employee for over 10 years, looking for a man like Jack Benny. Sir, I'd like to bring up an interesting question. Is Mr. Benny really as cheap in private life as he is on the radio? I'm blabbing about my private affair. Quiet, Jack. This is what every girl should know. Oh, yeah? Now, Rochester, there's one more question I'd like to ask you. There's been a lot of speculation about Mr. Benny's age. Would you tell us how old he really is? 36. Hmm, it's about time he got to the truth. How do you know? He's been 36 years since I've known him. Thank you. Certainly tell him a thing or two when he gets home. Well, Rochester... Hey, Mr. Wilson. I told you, sir, Jack hasn't heard yet. What do you think we ought to do? Don't worry, don't worry. W. C. Fields drinks the whole court. That's all, fellas. I was taking a violent lesson, and I completely lost track of the time. Well, how do you like that? This is the first time you've ever been late, Jack, and it had to happen. And what have we done now? Maybe that's why it's our last program. We're only off in the summer and we'll be back in the fall. This is a fine time to tell us we're going off the air. I just hired a new tri-fingress for my band. A new what? Tri-fingo. It's a guy who plays the tri-fingo. Phil, Phil, there's no such instrument as a tri-fingo. I know, but the union says you've got to have one. I meant to tell you, Larry Adler called up and said he was going to drop in to rehearse those numbers you're going to do with him on your overseas tour. Oh, yes, I'm expecting Larry. And, kid, listen, when I come back in the fall, I want you to know that we're all going to be together again. For the same sponsor, the same station at the same time. And the same salary. Yup. And now, ladies and gentlemen... Since this is the... Mr. Benny, who's going to take our place this summer? Oh, our summer show is going to be Wayne King and his incomparable music. Wayne King, if they wanted unconquerable music, why didn't they hire my orchestra? Why didn't they hire your orchestra? You tell them, Larry. Why didn't they hire your orchestra? You tell them, Don. If this ever gets back to me, I'm stuck. You're stuck and you've got an extra trafingo player to keep you company. Trafingo is. Imagine an instrument of trafingo. Whoever, only Phil would know about trafingo. There is another musician in the world that would know about a trafingo. There's no such a thing. Say yes. I've got a surprise for you. What is it, Mary? You know who else is coming back on the air in the fall? Who? Fred Allen. Fred Allen? Yeah, you'll be on the same day you are and on the same network. Well, I'll be. So Allen finally got a job, eh? Who's he gonna be with? Standard Brand. I don't mean his jokes. I mean his sponsors. Well, I picked him in the fall. And now as I started to say, ladies and gentlemen... Well, Jack, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but since this is our last program, I took the liberty of inviting the mother of a very dear friend of mine to come up here to the studio. Oh, fine, Don. She can sit right over here. Well, thanks, Jack. But first, I'd... she'd like to meet you. This is Mrs. Riggs. This is Jack Benny. Oh, how do you... how do you do, Mrs. Riggs? How do you do, Mr. Benny? Don tells me you're the mother of a very good friend of his. Yes. You see, my son is in radio too. Oh, really? What does he do? He's a tobacco auctioneer. Oh, a tobacco auctioneer? Then your son is L.A. Speed Riggs. You know, he's on my program. Oh, no, no, Mr. Benny. You're on his program. Oh, oh yes, yes. Well, Mrs. Riggs, your son... your son has a very unusual occupation, a tobacco auctioneer. How did he happen to get a job with Lucky Strikes? Well, who else would he go with? Speed Riggs and Lucky Strikes were made from the finer, the lighter, the naturally milder tobacco. Yes, but how did Speedy know that? Oh, he's known that for years. In fact, while other boys were wasting their time playing baseball and football and going with girls, Speedy used to stand out in the tobacco field all day long holding up that big leaf. Yes, I've seen those pictures in magazines. He's been looking till you look. Well, Mrs. Riggs, the leaf too. I mean, Mrs. Riggs, now that we've talked... Mrs. Riggs, now that we've talked about your son Speedy, before you go, wouldn't you like to say a few words to him? You know, he's listening in New York. Oh, may I? Certainly, go right ahead. Oh, thank you. Oh, Speedy! You know, I'm glad... You know, he really said something to her then, you know? I'm glad you must ask her how she felt. I'm glad you introduced me to her, Don. I knew you'd like her, Jack. I wonder what F.T. Boom's mother is like. Folks, since this is our last... Come in. Could you bring your harmonica with you so we can rehearse for our trip? Jack, I did. And I also brought along a new musical instrument which I just invented. A new musical instrument? Mm-hmm.  A comb of 60 watts was that little.  You know what I mean? Why can't they read scripts just the way they're written? Very good. We thought that was funny. Funny, we would have written it in.  What do you call an instrument like that? A trafingo. Oh, so that's a trafingo. Well, look, Larry, how about rehearsing our stuff? I'll grab my violin. We'll go to work. Okay, something Spanish. Wait a minute, Jack. Why don't you let Larry play a number first? Something's gonna do alone. All right. What's it gonna be? I'm gonna play Laura. Well, you can touch it with your bare hands. The mighty smooth war-loan drives. Every tank, every plane, every gun we've sent against Japan now will shorten the war and save lives. 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We present now a special transcribed Christmas message from the president of the United States to the American people My fellow countrymen all over our country and in many other parts of the world Men women and children are preparing to celebrate the birthday of Christ Never before in our lives has a Christmas seemed so important I'm not thinking of turkey dinners and stacks of gifts I mean the quiet reverent celebration of faith hope and love born in a manger in Bethlehem Across all the continents of this world peace-loving people today feel apprehension and lowliness and fear Many have forgotten the humble surroundings of the nativity and how from a straw littered stable shown a light Which for nearly 20 centuries has given men strength comfort and peace peace of mind At this Christmas time we should renew our faith in God We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to him Many of us are fortunate enough to celebrate Christmas at our own fireside But there are many others who are away from their homes and loved ones on this day Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea But all of us at home at war wherever we may be are within reach of God's love and power We can all pray All of us should pray We should ask the fulfillment of God's will We should ask for courage for wisdom For the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in his hands We should pray for a peace which is based on righteousness The nation already is in the midst of a crusade of prayer on the last Sunday of the old year There will be special services devoted to a revival of faith in God I call upon all of you to enlist in this common cause I call upon you no matter what your spiritual allegiance may be We're all joined in the fight against the tyranny of communism Communism is godless Democracy is the foundation of faith Faith in oneself, faith in one's neighbors, faith in God Democracy's most powerful weapon is not a gun, a tank, or a bomb It is faith, faith in the brotherhood and dignity of man under God Let us pray at this Christmas time for the wisdom, the humility, and the courage to carry on in this faith Ladies and gentlemen, you have just heard President Truman's Christmas message to the American people This is NBC, the national broadcasting company In answer to many thousands of requests from its listeners The national broadcasting company is happy to bring you adventures in time and space transcribed in future This is a story of Riesling, the singer of the spaceways You've probably sung his songs in school in English, French, or German. The language doesn't matter But it was an earth tongue But the real story of Riesling is not found in the footnotes of a scholar's critique or a publisher's biography It is in the memories of the old-time Spacemen, the pioneers who pushed the thundering old-fashioned rockets to the far strange ports that are our commonplace heritage These men know the true story of Riesling The arching sky is calling Spacemen back to their trade Oh, handstand by free falling and the light below was fed The sons of terror Far drives the thundering jet Up leaps the race When I first met Riesling, he was hustling drinks in the Twin Moons bar at Drywater, Mars He'd won a guitar off a Chinese barkeep at Luna City by cheating at one club And he made his whiskey by singing in the bar and passing the hat Listen to her. She's drum pretty like a 16 year old gal Now much you collect on that last song three dollars Marsha in a slug and grabbed it from a bill You don't trust me no more Funny never did have no luck with hound dogs and a Martian barkeep. Hey Riesling Over there by the bar. There's an institute for striper giving in the eye. No, I'm Captain Hicks off the gauze hook. Are you sure giving you the once-over? They don't make never no mind to me I've been blacklisted Hicks logged me for making up a song on watch right fine song too Here comes the brass arm. Riesling. I've been looking for you. I've been right here skipper You saw to that. I need a jet man on the gauze. I'm just Real interest well, I got news for you skipper you blacklisted me remember well you kept your nose clean And we need an experienced man Little change in down after the course hook ain't this skipper how'd you know that you got that new atomic pile drive Blastery of them tea kettles blue somewhere in the asteroids. Look it's double pay, but if you're scared scared Listen fella But double pay I jump off the top of the Herman Tower if you allowed me rubber heels for the land all right then You show up tonight to sign the book Sober got no choice skipper money and me is total strangers way lift at 1130 Mars time Sober you want to stand reasoning? You're taking the job well that gauze hook is one stinking old time her engines got more bugs than a beagle dog in spring And that new drive is about as safe as a pretty gal in the old But I reckon she'll do for one more trip Riesling hi Jimmy legs meet my friend Hertzman. He's signing on as a walker weapon This is Jimmy legs Casey. He's boss. Can't hold it. Let go no more. No, sir. Poor boy Riesling you sober enough to sign the book Soberer make my mark stand aside three X's Took me a middle name Yeah, you too lay below and Hertzman isa get him sobered up before the skipper makes rounds Jimmy legs I'm sober as a hanging judge. Yeah, well, you can leave that bottle here. What bottle one in your back pocket Glass buttons maybe Give it here Jimmy legs. I swear.   Well that number two jet ain't fit cadmium dampers a walk. Why tell me tell the chief engineer He says they'll hold. Well, he's wrong. He's wrong He's got a harrowman Institute degree in power electronics and some drunk space rats says he's wrong skipper I was dampen jets on that shirt. They'll tear warp pins for buttons. I've got no time for your reasoning Casey sound takeoff.  Hello Go ahead from control tower captain. All right, Casey fire one and four Reasoning and I had the second watch Damping was done by hand in those days with a mother flying vernier and a danger beaver And as long as the people ticked off slow and steady.  Don't worry I could damp this tea kettle in my sleep. How's number two? All right so far Do you ever hear that song about Hicks the one that got me blacklisted? Oh the skipper is the father of his crew a gentle guiding light to me in you But on Mars he likes his women if they walk or if they're swimming or if they've got six arms did it too Hey, the second verse is better Now the skipper likes his liquor by the court Yes, he'd go from Mars to Venus for a snort He'll drink a rocket fuel at high skip didn't see you come in you were too busy. Hey Who's watching the gauge? I got an eye on it.  I'm going to fix it so you can't get a berth on a rocket-powered pogo stick Report the casing under arrest. I don't rightly think I will you what you kind of forget skipper caught in a space code You can't remove a jetman till the end of the watch, right now. Look you corn fed space Well, how is that a ruler aided? Riesling your ship is over at 2,300 and I'll see you ride the rest of the way in slop locker. Maybe Maybe in the meantime, you clear out of my power room. I gotta make me up a third verse from a song Number two. All right. Hey, let me have that Mike Jimmy legs is that forced dry boil up there give me that Casey Riesling I've taken just about enough for you.  I think I'm gonna jump my song and start over. I could do much better Damn number two a point. All right, sure You watch the gauge Now she's bucking a little She's tight now what happened number two blew your long-headed space around you all right little sunburn The lights are gone. Hey, what's the matter with the emergency circuits? Riesling Jimmy legs get some lights down here. It's dark get the emergency light on they're on Riesling They went on after the blast The lights are all What are you talking about? Jimmy legs Jimmy legs turn on the lights. It's dark Turn on the lights from the jets was the last thing Riesling ever saw His optic nerve was burned out in an instant He was in sick way on the rest of the trip and on the swing back we set Riesling down at dry water Mars Look out for the cable Riesling. Thanks, but Riesling Let you Jimmy legs hold up a minute. Will you Riesling Jimmy legs. I promised I'd write a song about you didn't I Sure Riesling sure can't seem to sing like a mister look Riesling The men up in the bridge feel kind of bad about this. Yeah Why didn't they think of that when Riesling told him that damper was shot now hurts man? That's all over sure sure that's all forgotten Racing like so let's get out of the twin moon before I know hold it hold it The skipper feels pretty bad about the whole thing recently Got a late for that Jimmy legs feeling sorry don't hold no corn Boys past the hat the skipper kicked in half a month's pay didn't Then on principle I suppose all the time to stuff it back up the jets But you can't buy no drinking whiskey on Prince I'll take you here. Yeah I'll get it I'll be seeing you Riesling sure Jimmy Lee Come on hurts man. Let's get that drink that was all Just another space bum who didn't have the good sense to finish before his luck ran out I know Riesling hold up at the twin moon still his money was gone that he hooked a ride on a crawler over to Marsopolis It was a boom town then with an industrial district mushrooming between the lesser and grand canals I Ran into Riesling about two months later playing his guitar on a jetty that ran out into the canal He had a dirty rag tied over his eyes with a jetman snot and his hat was on the walk of the side That's me. Yeah, how do you be passable is this a venusian dine? Oh, it's a slug Figured, well, how's it going singing again some work in saloons mostly I've been thinking some funny songs hurtsman the words come out different than they used to Come on along the canal with you sure here take my arm. I know the way That's a funny thing hurts. I figure I know it better than other folks Look back there towards the city. What do you see factory towers? Smell them from here But I don't seem that way to me.  I can see it. It's a dirtiest stink hole in the system not all Depends on how you see Why don't you go home recently home earth I've been thinking about that hurtsman When I was a youngster down in the Ozarks, I used to climb a big old oak tree my daddy had in the door Yeah, you could see the hills from miles green and cool I've been thinking about that.  I couldn't see them hills no more now I couldn't stand to see black when I knew they was lying all around me cool and green in the sun Couldn't stand that Well, let's get back to town hurtsman today. I made three and a half dollars Martian I'm all set to drink it down to four don't a lost track of wrestling after that I shipped out on a slow fray to the Condor class for Luna and he hitchhiked a ride to Venusburg on an oarship in the tri-planet run So he beat around the system Venusburg to lay port to dry water at a new Shanghai and back Any spaceport was his home and no skipper. It refused to lift the extra mass of wrestling and his battered guitar He made up his songs sitting out watches down in the power room with old shipmates While the monotonous speed of the jet shook the hull planes hear the jet Hear them snarl at your back when you're stretched on the rack hear the jet Feel the pain in your ship feel the strain in your grip Strangest he'll come alive on her jet little his songs began to travel along the spaceways ahead of him Raw spacemen songs with titles like since the pusher met my cousin and the space is built for two But more and more we began to hear a different kind of song Strain sad songs the ones you find printed in the centennial editions dark star passing death song of a woods cold And then finally a green hills of earth It grew for 20 years that's all They say it started way back when wrestling was down in the labor camps on Venus singing for the indentured man Now if someone will kindly pass a bottle, there's not much reasoning here. It'll do. Yeah, what is that stuff? You cannot make him good here on Venus. What do you use? Karak Bush a home it is Oh Where are you from son Tosco, Mexico? That's a long way from here. See a long way How'd you come to sign on? The man comes out to the village from the city and the shining automobile a very big He says there is work. You signed the paper for 10 years and you work Work there is work here. All right Then stinking ours in the jungle and machete I tell you when I get home to earth Well, you do son. It's the use. We aren't getting home You know how many men die out there in the swamp today? 10 men 10 What is the use?  Oh, she she says she wait. I sure You were you sing some more reason we drink you sing maybe a new song son We ride in the molds of Venus We read her tainted bread her flooded Jungles are crawling with unclean Finished the song raising I can't can't yet. It just don't come. I'll finish it when I go home That's it when I go home to the hills Now pass that bottle there. They don't wish it don't blow for four hours That's where the Green Hill started and I was there when it was finished It was 20 years after that and there wasn't a man flying around the beach hadn't heard of re-sling and his songs He was getting old now for a spaceman. It was a familiar figure through the whole system tall Gaunt and with that dirty bandage tied across his blind eyes I Was chief Jetman then on the old Falcon who were cradled at Venus Alice Isle scheduled for a direct jump to Great Lakes, Illinois on earth I was checking in dunnage when recently felt his way up the gangway and came through the Recently who's that Mike Hertzman hurts me hurts me. Well, what are you doing on this old home? Figured I'd rather make her earth Are you going home recently? I thought you were never going to make that run. I've been hankin to set foot in the Ozarks again How about those hills? I've been singing about him so long now hurts me. I got to finish the song I got a set foot in the door yard and hear the wind through that oak tree About the last thing I'll be doing I got to get home before re-sling has a new company policy You see Hertzman. I'm getting just a little old re-sling. Listen No more dead-head rides the new code book is in force I seen code books come and go the skippers one of them youngsters fresh out of Harrowman Institute cadet training He's liable to throw the book at you at me I've been around space as long as Halley's Comet and Brewster's Ridge. I'm going back to earth Cool green hills of earth. I'm going home That's re-sling kept re-sling and I'm dragging it back to earth captain not in this ship Earthman have this man removed Funny thing captain. I sprained my shoulder suddenly look skipper.   You don't know what that means to an old man going home I can't take it against the Harrowman call now look skipper You can slide me by the distressed basements clause in that code book distressed baseman my eye I've been bumming around the system for 30 years Give me You make me do something I never done for no one before I'm an old man an old blind man. I want to go home.  You can stretch for a poor old blind man. I can't you You got a skipper Old space rat keep out of the way. I run an efficient ship and I don't want any trouble. No, sir.  Thanks, man. I'm by for left stand by Best seat in the system power room and old hot grass here power on fire free. I see Green hills of earth still singing that recently summer I changed her little gonna finish her now Mac going home to finish it Yeah Have you seen those new?  Hey, where's the people turned off? She's all automatic. You have it soft nowadays when I was twisting her tail. He had to stay awake You got an old hand dampen plates on all but the links and ship them they cover up the dials You might need them.  Won't seem the same out past the moon. I've been waiting for this a long time, man Gonna be good to get home. I reckon The arch in sky is calling spacemen back Radiation blasts stay behind the battle. I got the link shift. I can hand down for an air What's going on in there? I'm still in jet three. Is this McDougal McDougal is dead. This is reasoning on what?  Don't worry skipper. I know this power Somebody's got a damper I'm sending in a crew. No, no use the whole room will be hot for an hour and the other jets won't hold Skipper throw on the recording tape. What throw on the recording tape I want to get something down tape. So I'm raising Right pretty sunburn Pick me out of here. Don't bury me in a litchi. You come okay Radiation is getting brighter. I can almost see Bright rosy like the sun like the sun over the heels down I got my song figured right now Here it comes Pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth Let us rest eyes on the fleecey skies of the cool green hills of Earth I Couldn't see him now huge my son I Can see the sun That's the way he died Riesling the blind singer of the spaceways Singing of the home we never reached The cool green hills of earth Next week we bring you another story many of you have requested that we repeat It's the strange tale of man's first visit to another planet and why he decides that Mars is heaven Be with us at this same time next week for another adventure into the unknown world of This program was transcribed now dynamic Tallulah Bankhead brings you the big show on NBC