Countdown for a blast-off. X minus 5, minus 4, minus 3, minus 2, X minus 1. Fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future. Adventures in which you live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company presents X minus 1. If you wanted to take over our world with a minimum amount of resistance and trouble, how would you go about it? Tonight we'll tell you how with a strange and chilling story by George Lefferts. The Parade. You are Mr. Sid Ryan. The same. My name is Lucia. I am a Martian. Ah, pleased to meet you, Mr. Lu... What was that again? A Martian. As in Orson Welles? Precisely. I'm a Rotarian myself. Sit down. Thank you. Now that we've had our little joke, Mr. Lucia, what can publicity associates do for you? I am interested in obtaining publicity. It has been my observation that advertising and publicity are the very backbone of earthly civilization. Spoken like a true Martian, Mr. Lucia. Now, if you'll tell me the name of the client. The client, of course, will be the Martians. You don't give up, do you? Give up. The gag, I mean. Oliver. Yes, Mr. Ryan? This is Mr. Lucia. How do you... Mr. Lucia claims to be a Martian.  I am happy to see, Mr. Ryan, that my telling you I am a Martian has approximately the effect I guessed it would. I believe we can do business. I have here a cash retainer of $5,000. $5,000. Oliver, take a look at that wad of lettuce. It's the real stuff, Mr. Ryan. And my client has prepared to spend many times that amount. Sit down, Mr. Lucia. Oliver, get the client a cigar, the 50-cent box. Yes, sir. Thank you. Well, now what can I do for you, sir? I wish you to manage a publicity campaign. A very large and important campaign. Is the product established or is it something brand new? Something quite new. Now, what would you judge the most effective type of campaign? Well, if the client has a lot of dough to throw around, a suspense campaign is best. First, you place ads in the paper saying, watch this space. Then, about a week later, you run an ad saying XYZ or PDQ, and you get people guessing what it means. And finally, when you've teased them enough, you bust loose and unveil the product. Excellent. We will conduct a suspense campaign. Of course, in this kind of campaign, secrecy is very important. Once the name of the product leaks out, it spreads like wildfire and the whole campaign is ka-flopo. Quite so, quite so. The utmost secrecy. You realize, of course, these things cost like crazy. Would say one million dollars cover expense. Come again? I said, would one million dollars cover it? Well, yes, I am. You did say a million. I understood that you have handled some very large accounts. Of course, if this is too big. No, no, not at all, not at all. As a matter of fact, I seldom touch anything less. Right, Oliver? Oh, of course that's right, Mr. Ryan. Absolutely right. You will begin, then, by saturating the newspapers, the radio, the street cars with a very simple statement. What's that? I will write it on a card. There you are. The Martians are coming. Sorry, that's not a bad teaser. Got that, Oliver? Yes, sir. The next ad will read June 1st is Martian Day. June 1st is Martian Day. What happens on June 1st? The parade takes place. What parade? I wish you to arrange a parade up Fifth Avenue. You mean like the Macy parade? Exactly. Except that the theme will be the world of tomorrow, the Martian world.  Balloons, clowns, penance, pretty drum majorettes. Say that sounds terrific. I might be able to interest the department stores in a tie-in. Fine. The parade will climax the campaign. On June 1st, the product will be unveiled. Good enough. By the way, Mr. Luchard, just what is the product? What are we selling? Oh, no, Mr. Ryan. Secrecy, remember? Yeah, but after all... Mr. Ryan, all will be revealed to you in good time. For the moment, let us say that we are selling a concept. A concept? The concept of invasion from Mars. Sorrow Talon Agency. Sammy Sorrow, please. This is Sammy. This is Sid Ryan over at Publicity Associates. Listen, Sammy, how are you fixed for midgets? I got midgets. Fine. I need 40 midgets for a parade. 40. June 1st. And listen, Sammy, I want them dressed in little spacesuits. In little... You know, like men from Mars. Mars. Okay? And I want some movie extras. Maybe 50 of them. 50. Also rigged up like men from Mars. Make them look gruesome. Got that? Gruesome. Also I need some horses with pretty girls on top of them. Maybe you can get that bunch from Maroney's Traveling Circus, the one we booked for the fireman's parade in Albany last year. I'll try, Sid. Never mind the expense. Just get me the talent. It sounds like you landed a big client there. Who is it? It's a secret. I gotta hang now. Call me back, Sammy. Hi. How you doing, Oliver? Fine, Mr. Ryan. Just fine.  The Martians are coming on the subway platforms. Good. We got full-page ads in all the dailies. Good. And 10-second spot announcements on every local station. Good. We're hosting a fortune. Good. The more it costs, the bigger our percentage. Spend like you were going to the electric chair all of a sudden. Yes, sir. How are you making out in the parade? If it comes off, it'll be the biggest thing since Bonham invented the midget. I've got Macy's, Gimbal's, and Sax to contribute floats. Everything is built around the Martian theme, see? Even the horses will have long feelers attached to them and funny-looking extra legs. It'll be sensational. That sounds fine. Only what? Mr. Ryan, we don't even know what we're selling. Oliver, my boy. Big ol' Sid Ryan has been sitting here spending all this moola and not putting two and two together.  Just by accident, understand? I have learned that Century Pictures is making a big new epic. One of those expensive pictures they make in secret and then spring on the public because they don't want the other studios to get the jump on them. What's the picture? A space opera titled Invasion from Mars. Get it? Oh. Oh, I begin to see. Also, by mere coincidence, it's supposed to have its premiere sometime around June 1st. You follow me? Yes, but Mr. Ryan, Century has an exclusive contract with new features syndicate for all of publicity. Suppose Century Pictures doesn't like the way new features is handling their stuff. They want to get out of the contract, but new features says no, so they have to get around the contract. A man named Lucha, client unknown, starts publicizing the Martian Invasion. Need I go further? I don't know, Mr. Ryan. Sounds pretty far-fetched to me, but I don't know. That's what I like about you, Oliver. You're so innocent. Now, let me talk to Commissioner Patrick, please. Sid Ryan. Hello. Commissioner? Sid Ryan. Oh. How are you, Ryan? Fine. What is it this time? You want to drop a man off the Empire State Building into a teacup full of water? The answer is no. Also, we're not arresting any fan dances. You know I don't handle fan dances. I want to permit for a parade. June 1st, 5th Avenue, it's a Sunday. There's no traffic. Now, look, Ryan, I... Macy's gets a permit. Gimbal's gets a permit. The American Legion gets a permit. The Sons of Aaron March. Every time Morton Downey sings the Waring of the Green. Oh, don't give me a hard time, Patrick. This is too big. I have the 5th Avenue Merchants Association behind me. Okay, Ryan. Fill out the forms. I'll pass them along to the License Commissioner. That's my boy. By the way, what's the occasion for this parade? Oh, don't you read the papers, Patrick? June 1st is Martian Day. How is the campaign going, Mr. Ryan? Like wildfire, Mr. Lucia, like wildfire. Everybody and his brother is going along with the gag. Yesterday, we distributed 50,000 Martian hats to school kids. I got some of the merchants doing World of Tomorrow displays in their windows. Every big novelty manufacturer in town is climbing on the bandwagon. They want to get into the parade with floats, giveaways, anything. Everybody smells a buck to be made. I wouldn't be surprised if the mayor himself declared Martian Day. I've even arranged for Commissioner Patrick to accept a 50,000 dollar check for the policeman's benevolent fund from the man from Mars. Oh, it's terrific, terrific. My blood pressures up to 200. Excellent. I, uh... I understand century pictures spend over a million bucks making that space opera. My big pardon? Oh, calm, calm, Mr. Lucia. Sid Ryan wasn't born yesterday, you know? I know who our client is, even if you don't admit it. You do? Ha-ha, always thinking that's me. Well, as long as you know, let's keep it to ourselves. Shall we, Mr. Ryan? As you once remarked, when these things leak out, it destroys the surprise and ruins the effectiveness of the campaign. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Ken Daley speaking to you from our Portable Transmitter, atop the reviewing stand for the much-heralded Martian Parade on Fifth Avenue. It's a beautiful, sunlit day here in New York, a perfect day for a parade, and the streets are packed with thousands of spectators all eager to find out what's going on here. And the streets are packed with thousands of spectators all eager to find out what this is all about. There's an air of shrill expectancy. Some of the kids and their parents have been camped on the curb stones since early this morning to be sure of ringside seats when the so-called Martians passed by. I've just had word from Saul Brown up at Central Park Mall that the Martians have landed from big pink balloons. And while we're waiting for the arrival of the parade, we've brought some people up to our microphone to tell you their reactions to this most spectacular of all publicity stunts. What's your name, madam? Miss Ada Shackley. A little louder, please. Miss Ada Shackley. And where are you from, Mrs. Shackley? Columbus, Ohio. I see. And I see you have your family with you, too. Two little curly-headed blonde boys. Are you in New York on vacation? We came for the Shriners Convention with their daddy. Well, what do you think of Martian Day, Mrs. Shackley? Well, it all seems very strange to me, but the boys have been pestering me to watch it, so we've been standing here two hours. I can't make head or tail of it. Well, neither can a lot of other people, Mrs. Shackley. But judging by the thousands here today, there's a lot of curiosity. Curiosity killed the cat, folks say. Well, let's hope not. Thank you, Mrs. Shackley. And this is Mr. Sid Ryan, ladies and gentlemen, the publicity man who's the brains behind the Martian Day stunt. Hello, Sid. Good morning, Kenneth. Easy, easy. Not so close to the mic. Oh, sorry, sorry. Hey, Sid, you've certainly lifted the lid this time. Looks like it, doesn't it? Sid, there's been a great deal of speculation as to exactly what all this is leading up to. I've heard some folks say it's a big war-bond drive. Others think it's just to stimulate local business. And look, I understand in the trade itself, the smart money says you're building for the premier of centuries forthcoming extravaganza, invasion from Mars. Now, come clean. Can you tell us what the real story is? Uh-uh, I can. I'd like to, but honestly, I can. Oh, man of mystery, eh? Are you going to watch the parade from the stand here? No, I can't. I can't stand noise. I'm going up to my office and watching companies. Well, thank you, Sid Ryan. And good luck. And here they come, ladies and gentlemen. The first units of the Big Martian Parade, swinging down Fifth Avenue with fanfare, colored streamers, music, confetti, floats, all the traffic's on a mardi gras. Midgets in weird-looking pink and blue spacesuits carrying blue Goldberg weapons with signs painted on them. Let's see, I can read one which says, atomic blaster. Another one has a placard reading where, we're Martian through Georgia.  They're giving free sugar candy to the kids along the way. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is a happy laughing crowd along Fifth Avenue today. A true reflection of the great sense of humor and good nature that makes America the place it is. This is promised as the climax of the show. Now a great hush has fallen over the crowd. It's quite a sight to see these thousands of people standing here expectantly, hearing only the great regular sigh of their mass breathing. And now here they come, ladies and gentlemen. The Martians. Marching in booted, helmeted ranks. Row after row of them. This is an impressive sight, ladies and gentlemen. And a rather serious contrast to the rest of the joyous slapstick parade we've witnessed.  Each is holding an ominous looking ray gun in their ready position. They're marching in absolute silence, keeping stepped perfectly, as though some mute unspoken command were marking time for them. The crowd seems rather grim and serious now. Perhaps they're reminded of the actuality of war and possible invasion. They stand solemnly, silently, watching. Even the children are applauded. Now the first ranks of the Martians are moving past us down to Favner toward the reviewing stands at the square. No one moves. There are women, ladies and gentlemen. She dashed out into the street. For what reason I don't know, she attempted to lift the visor of one of the Martian's spacesuits, but just as she reached the Martian, she fell forward in a dead faint. I tell you, I've never felt such mass tension as I do now today. All sorts of rumors have begun filtering back through the audience. They're excited whispers of she's dead, she fainted. Now an undercurrent of what? They're really Martians. This is an example of how a single incident can precipitate mass hysteria, ladies and gentlemen. I tell you, it's a mighty reassuring sight to see the blue uniforms of New York's finest spaced every 10 feet or so along the avenue. I can't explain it, this incident has begun to work on what was a moment ago, a happy, carefree crowd and the complexion is changing. Did you see that? A woman fainted. Of course I saw it. What are you supposed she saw?  But that young woman ran out into the streets to get a close look at the Martians and then she screamed and fainted dead away. I'm well aware of that, Oliver, since I paid her 50 bucks to do it. I can't trade to the good publicity, man, relax. Holy smokes, you sure think of everything. Yeah, for my share of this deal, roughly $100,000, I can afford to think of everything.  Don't you want to see the finish? We'll get out of the reviewing stand for the finish right now. I want to make a phone call. By the way, where's Lucha? I haven't seen him. He'll be around. Boy, those Martians sure look like the real thing. How would you know the real thing if you saw it, Oliver? Gee, I don't know. I'll close the window, Oliver. Oh yes, Mr. Ryan. Sammy, this is Sid Ryan. Sid, I was going to call you. I'm awful sorry about those Martians. What do you mean sorry? They're terrific. Don't joke, Sid. I mean it. Well, I mean it too. They're great, great. Are you in the bag? Never felt better. You mean it, don't you? Of course I mean it. What is this? There are Martians in the parade. But $150. Of course I only ordered $50. Sid. But under the circumstances, what is it? Sid, don't you know, I couldn't get you a single movie extra. There's a studio strike in New York. I was going to call you. Wait a minute. Where do these guys come from if you deny them? I don't know. Maybe Oliver. Hold on, Oliver. Yes, Mr. Ryan? Did you hire those Martians? No, sir. Sammy, this is on the level, isn't it? Honestly, I... Okay, Sammy, I'll call you back. What's the matter, Mr. Ryan? I don't know. I just don't know. I've got the Locate Lucha. What's Century Pictures number? Mr. Ryan, this is Sunday. Oh, yeah. Well, get me their publicity director, Marty Sanford, at home. Oh, yeah. Marty, this is Sid Ryan. Oh, hello, Sid. How's the big motion? Fine, fine. Listen, my, this is dead serious on the level. Get it? What's wrong? Lou who? Lucha. Come on, now, Marty. This is life and death. The guy you sent over to hire me for the invasion picture. Invasion picture? Invasion from Mars, the space opera. Are you batty? Marty. That picture was shelved last month. What? Sure. Back in the can. Too expensive and too fantastic. The big shots decided you can't sell a Martian invasion to the American public. And I never heard of a guy named Luke. Mother of heaven. What is it, Mr. Ryan? You look terrible. That's too fantastic. What's too fantastic, Mr. Ryan? Is something wrong? Open that window. I want another look at those Martians. Yes, sir. Oliver, you were in the army. But 150 movie extras learned to march like that in, say, 24 hours? Not in 24 days, Mr. Ryan. Not a second's hesitation. Not one other step. By the way, they carry those ray guns at the ready. Any other time I've seen troops march like that was in the film of the Nazi storm troops marching through the streets of Paris. See those chests over there? That's pride. Sheer, arrogant pride. Look at those chins. That's contempt. Nobody could act like that. Mr. Ryan. Oliver, get down there. Find that woman who faded. Her name's Gloria Montec. Get her up here. Make it fast. I can't get quite sense of however much. Stay away from me. Gloria, it's me, Sid Ryan.   Gloria, settle down. No, you're wearing a mask. Baby, it's me, Sid. And underneath, it's horrible. It's all big green eyes and those happy... Baby, snap out of it. Listen, what happened down there? You ran out and screamed like I told you about the fainting. That wasn't in the end. Go away, please. Go away. What'd you see? Oh, no, please. Please. Just one question, baby. Inside that helmet. What'd you see? Oliver, Mr. Ryan, she needs a doctor. Okay, Oliver. I've heard enough anyway. You take care of Gloria here. Get her a drink. Where are you going? To see the commissioner. We gotta stop this parade before things begin to happen. Ryan, what's the beef? Patrick, I don't know what it is. See, but something's wrong. You gotta stop that parade. I suppose you'd like the riot squad. That would get you a front page spread on every paper in town. Honest, you publicity guys give me a pay. This may be a matter of life and death. Oh, sure, sure. Look, Ryan, I've got no time for your cheap publicity gags. I'm a busy man. Listen, I'm trying to tell you I don't know where these Martians came from, who they are, or anything about them. All I want you to do is stop the parade and make sure they're on the level. Uh-uh, Ryan. I'm wise to your tricks. If you let the sergeant show you out. You won't do it, huh? An honest citizen appeals for protection, and you refuse it. I most emphatically do. Now beat it. All right, Patrick. I'll go right to the mayor's office. I'll have you busted flatter than a fried egg. Go ahead. I'm sure his honor will be glad to toss you out on that phony, nickel-plated skull of yours. You heard me, Ryan. You cannot see the mayor. Adolf, please. This isn't a gag. I don't want publicity. All I want to do is maybe prevent something horrible from happening. In case you don't know it, wise guys, something horrible is already happening. A couple hundred little kids are in the hospital with tomein poisoning from that phony Martian candy you passed out. Or didn't you know? I didn't. We've got to stop that parade. Sure. Sure you'd like nothing better than to start a panic now. Maybe a few hundred people would get trampled to death. Think of the newspaper space that would get you and your product. I won't stand for this at all. You won't have to because you're going to get out of here right now. Go on. Beat it. Get out.  Oliver. Oliver, where are you? It is useless to scream at him, Mr. Ryan. Your friend is quite dead. Lucha. He wanted to run to the police with some story about a Martian invasion. I found it necessary to restrain him. Restrain him?  Come on now, Mr. Ryan. Collect yourself. After all our planning, it wouldn't do to have everything spoiled. Now would it? Lucha, start talking and talk fast because when you get through, I'm going to take you apart piece by piece. What's this all about? But surely you know, Mr. Ryan, after all, you've been publicizing it for months. Listen, you! Please do not interrupt. You see, before colonizing your planet, we Martians sent advanced scouts to study your habits, your weaknesses. We found that the people on Earth are predominantly conditioned by advertising and publicity and so we conceived the idea of treating our entire invasion as a vast publicity stunt. Never. After all, Mr. Ryan, who would suspect an invader who advertised his invasion in the newspaper, invited the public to his surprise attack and spent millions publicizing his plans? Holy jumping catfish. You've done very well. Then there was no product. Ah, but there is a product. The product is death. What are you trying to do, Lucha? We Martians are humane people, Mr. Ryan. We do not like to destroy thousands where a few hundred would suffice. In exactly two minutes, our troops will treat the world to a spectacle of death which will bring the rest of your planet to its knees in horror. Nations will clamor to surrender. Perhaps, Mr. Lucha, but not if I can help you. Yes, please. Operator, this is Mr. Ryan. Get me the field telephone on the reviewing stand of the Martian Day Parade. Hurry. Anyone in particular? Just hurry. Reviewing stand, Sergeant Cassidy. Get me Commissioner Patrick. Hello. Hello. You'll have to talk louder. I want Commissioner Patrick. Patrick, Patrick. Wait a minute. Things are quieting down. No. What was it you wanted? This is Ryan. I have to talk to the commissioner. It's a matter of life and death. I'm sorry. You can't talk to him now. The Chief Martian is presenting the PBA check to him. The Martians are going to fire a salute. Listen, you've got to stop him. Stop him. I'm sorry, Mr. Ryan.  The words. It's clear. The operator. I'm sorry, Mr. Ryan.  I can't seem to get them back. It doesn't matter, operator. Nothing matters now. Tonight, X minus one has brought you The Parade, an original story written by George Lefferts. Featured in the cast with Joseph Curtin as Ryan, Joe DeSantis as Luchar, Alexander Scorby as daily, Agnes Young as the woman, Ellen Deming as Gloria, John Thomas as Oliver, Arthur Anderson as Sammy, Wendell Holmes as the commissioner, and William Keane as Sanford, your announcer, Don Pardo. X minus one was directed by Fred Way, and is a transcribed NBC radio network production. Next week, the tables turn. Instead of Martians invading Earth, we bring you a tale of men invading Mars. Ray Bradbury's brilliant short story entitled Mars is Heaven. Suppose you were a member of the first rocket ship crew to land on Mars, but instead of seeing Martians, you find that you've landed in a town that looks just like home, that all your dead relatives and friends are there to greet you, so that as incredible as it may seem, you think you're really in Heaven. That is, you think so right up to the fatal moment. The moment of X minus one. Join the Abbots on another baffling mystery tonight.


as odd because she'd apparently provided her little girl with a perfectly adequate lunch that day. But then the concerned mother allegedly discovered a note in her daughter's lunchbox that cut right to the heart of the matter. Lisa and Natalie Hale from Aurora, Colorado, as does Natalie's father, Nate Beersack. In 2018 Lisa is studying political science at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, but this particular story takes place three years earlier. And back then, Lisa allowed a four-year-old Natalie to attend the Children's Academy in their home municipality. According to Care.com, the Children's Academy and Childcare Center can look after as many as 150 kids in one go. This includes children who are almost ready for school, such as Natalie at the time, as well as those who are only just finding their feet. And as far as anybody knows, Natalie was getting along just fine in the daycare center. Certainly, Lisa and Nate had never publicly stated any grievance they'd previously had with the school. But sadly that all changed on Friday, April 24, 2015. That's because it was on this date that the incident with Natalie's school lunch occurred. So what happened? Well, Lisa packed her daughter's meal into a lunchbox as usual. But she claimed that she realized too late that she hadn't got any fruit or vegetables to offer her child. So seemingly without any other options, Lisa tucked a packet of Oreo cookies into Natalie's lunchbox. Of course, Lisa said this hadn't been the only thing that she'd provided her daughter for lunch that day. No, Lisa claimed that she'd also included a ham and cheese sandwich as well as a cheese string. Lisa said she didn't think the cookies were that big of a deal either. Were not the parents that send junk food every day. She has a full, healthy lunch, she told today in April 2015. And this was Friday. Why not give her a special treat? But when Natalie returned home from preschool later that day, she apparently wasn't feeling as full as she normally would. And then Lisa allegedly found a note from a teacher placed inside Natalie's lunchbox, alongside an uneaten packet of cookies. But it was the contents of the note, more than the unopened cookies, that reportedly gave Lisa cause for concern. Lisa claimed that the note read, Dear parents, it is very important that all students have a nutritious lunch. This is a public school setting and all children are required to have a fruit, a vegetable, and a healthy snack from home, along with a milk. If they have potatoes, the child will also need bread to go along with it. The note reportedly continued, Lunchables, chips, fruit snacks and peanut butter are not considered to be a healthy snack. This is a very important part of our program, and we need everyone's participation. After reading the brief communication, Lisa was apparently angry enough to post the note online. Commenters on the resulting social media post were seemingly just as annoyed as Lisa too. I just got a bunch of outrage from friends I hadn't heard from in years, Lisa told today in April 2015. One commenter in particular appeared to sum up the overall response when they labeled the note ridiculous. Of course, it's not unusual for a school to ask parents to provide healthy lunches for their children. After all, in 2010 the, now modified, healthy, hunger-free kids act came into force, helping to promote more vegetables, fruit and whole grains in kids diets. The act also suggested limiting trans fats and sodium. Moreover, healthy food undoubtedly helped children thrive in schools. In March 2017 Associate Professor of Economics and Education Policy at NYU Steinhardt Sean Patrick Corcoran told the Atlantic, students who eat regular, healthy meals are less likely to be tired, are more attentive in class and retain more information. But Lisa said it wasn't the policy of eating healthily that annoyed her. Rather, it was the way that she felt the teacher had shamed her. They took it over the top. To say, the kid can't eat it.  The mother of one was further concerned about the school seeming to force her to go against her own instincts. What the school thinks is healthy for her is not what I think is healthy for her, she told USA Today at the time of the incident.  That's between me and her and our doctor, not the school. Lisa was also quick to point out that her daughter is not physically unhealthy. She is not overweight by any means and I usually try to feed her healthy, she told ABC News in April 2015. It's not like I was offering cookies to the entire class, and it's not like that was the only thing in her lunch. On top of this, Lisa said Natalie's school had previously celebrated a holiday by bringing in candy. She also claimed that the school staff had offered Natalie a sweet treat when she'd stayed after hours. They say I can't decide what to feed her, but then they sometimes feed her junk food, Lisa explained to ABC News. In response, Brenda Dean, the children's academy director at the time, told USA Today that she would look into the note. She also reportedly admitted that something like this should not have been given to a parent and that this practice is against school policy. Patty Moon, the chief communications officer for Aurora Public Schools, seemed to agree with Dean. From our end, we want to inform parents, but never want it to be anything punitive, she told ABC News. However, Moon did insist that Natalie had been given the choice of a different snack. Unfortunately, the outcome of any further investigation conducted by Aurora Public Schools is unknown at this time. But in any case, it seems that all parties agreed that healthy eating within schools can only be a good thing for the students. And for her part, Natalie appears to be unaffected by the incident.


So Netflix is out Thursday night. This is going to be the big one this week and it's interesting because I Think this could be a surprise. I think this one has a big move and two I think it's going to be a surprise. I haven't read anything about this. I don't read the things about this I look at the chart and I'm just looking at this for the first time now to see what I think would be a surprise So what am I talking about here? For example? I'll tell you what the surprise would be new highs. I'll tell you that right now Yep So a surprise in Netflix would be a big move to the upside which should be like over 600 That would be a shock to this chart That would be a big surprise anything clear anything different from that will just be you know a Normal gap whether it's a bullish gap or a bearish gap that I'll rate accordingly But in an ideal world a gap up on Netflix at 600 or above would be a big surprise and Would be an unbelievable move for this Gosh, I should really look at what these cost Going into the earnings. So these things are so just They're probably gonna be reddit.   Wow Yeah, so be idea that that will be Well, we'll see what this does but this is a watch for tomorrow night Well, they lost you in either way as you know, I like to short We just we're just gonna wait here to this gaps I don't have a hundred percent conviction if it's up or down But I think this could have a big move is what I'm saying And I think it could be a surprise and the surprise actually as I'm looking at this now I could could have a downside surprise like a massive move down What would that be? What would that look like under 400? That would be crushing for this from this point after the rally here We're almost got up to 580. So This is a top watch for this week. This is probably gonna be a great play Friday. We'll see where it goes Good luck, everyone. If you're interested in the gap options newsletter, email me and Melissa at the stockswush.com


Wags here with head coach Dave Trumbo after a 3-1 win over Catholic tonight here at the always Mills gymnasium capping off a long homestand coach your thoughts on a match tonight Catholics a really good team and We just couldn't stop there outside number three. She was phenomenal early. We stopped her That's why how we won the first two we got a lot of good blocks on her But she started moving her around and she was tough to stop But thankfully we I felt like we'd bear down and passed a little bit better and After a really disappointing we had the match in the third set and then made some errors And but we rebounded we're down 17-14 and then made a run and made a play when we had to make a play What do you think that the difference was in that that fourth set? You know they took a lead late and your guys were able to pull it out Well at the end of that third set we made we didn't pass as well And then put our hitters in bad position to hit and we made errors and they made blocks This time we see we seemed a little bit more determined And we got a big pass there at the end to even that wind area and put the 25th point down We didn't win the game, but it certainly shifted the momentum and and that was huge Talk about this homestand you'd obviously defeated Gettysburg a good Scranton team a good to sales team Now you beat a good Catholic team How does this set you up now that you've won these games on the homestand now you're going on the road? How it's our Acadia? We play mule and Barry and they're good. You know, they're much better than they were last year so confidence, I think the Hume crowd was huge tonight and Being on the road now. It's a neutral site for us and Hopefully we can get a W and have a really great weekend coach. We'll see you back here next Wednesday Thanks and weeks. This is wags as once again Stevenson defeating Catholic three-to-one They'll be on the road this weekend at Arcadia and they'll be back home next Wednesday is open up Mac play against Albright Thanks for watching and go stacks


what the development teams provided us and tried to provide an objective analysis. In the end, there was no trump card. So we did not treat any one of the five factors as trumping all of the other four factors. So when we settled on this final recommendation to you, it was looking at which proposal we thought delivered the highest benefit in each of the five categories and how well did they work together? And so ultimately, the three points that were just presented to you, I would describe as impactful in our discussions, but it was a conversation amongst all the resources, both the staff who've spoken to you tonight and other staff who were as part of this team that ultimately relayed that recommendation. No one of the five criteria, but all five of the criteria, and that's where we settled on our recommendation. Thank you. All right, other questions by members of Council? Any other questions by members of the Council at this point? Yeah, I had a question for Mr. McCoy. Council member Caballero, Mr. McCoy. Dr. McCoy. Just corrected myself there. You're busy tonight. Yes. I wanted to have a little bit more conversation around the 10,000 square foot of retail. When you discuss minority owned, will there be also conversations around, I'm just thinking about like technical assistance to get folks into that building, because sometimes what we know from our marginalized communities is that they don't necessarily have the, they need the help around the business development. And so just trying to figure out how would that space work? And then are you broadening that view of what you're considering minority to include the Latinx community? Yeah, I think from this particular standpoint I'll answer your question. The idea is to find the right, well, so there's a couple of components to think about this in terms of space. So one is the equity component, right? So the actual capital goes in and kind of who owns that. Second piece is the uses of it. And so who goes into the particular space? And so we've had a intense conversation about finding the right businesses to go into space that also minority as well. So that you, in some ways you're, I don't want to call it double dipping, but you're having ownership, but you're also having the actual ability to be in the particular space. And to ask you a question, I think it's very important to think about how can we make the space as inclusive as possible. I don't want to kind of fell off, but I literally today in my class at NCCU we talked about the article that came out in New York Times in April 2018 about who belongs downtown. And it was, the article really focused around the idea that there's a feeling of exclusion for particularly on the black community and things that nature. My conversation today with students was about, well, what does it take to make a vibrant downtown where everybody feels welcome? And I think that the designs that have been laid out in the Fall and Winter proposal with the green space and thinking about the retail component, I think it's a critical opportunity to really actually create a space where you can bring all communities together in Durham. And in terms of the technical assistance component, I'm one of those who for a long time I've argued that we have very capable and strong minority businesses out there, right? A lot of times it's a matter of finding the right ones and offering the right opportunity, particularly as it relates to access to capital and opportunity. And so I feel like that when you have a prime space, as we've heard, I mean, there's tremendous opportunity there with the Class A space, with the mixed income inside of the space that we can find the right entrepreneurs to be in the space. And so you're benefiting again, not only from ownership and the rise in value, but also in being in that particular space and the incomes that come to that and that can have additional benefits out into the community from that standpoint. So I think that it can be a very inclusive space to be inclusive of black and brown folks here in Durham. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any more questions? All right, I'm gonna now ask for each of the developer groups, if you all would like to make three minutes worth of comments and I'll begin with Akritch. Any summary comments that you all would like to make? Let me just say to both groups that the clock's gonna be running with three minutes and this time, since it's not Dr. Allison or Dr. Fort Brown, who I always give extra minutes to, I'm gonna hold you all to the three minutes. You can have a message. I said that I'm gonna give each of these groups just three minutes. Yeah, because I said I like to give you extra. I like to give you extra time, Dr. Allison, but I don't do it for everyone. Okay, let's go. Okay. You got all the time you want. Shealy, welcome. Glad to see you. Thank you. Good evening. Gloria Shealy, I'm president of the Danielle Company. We are a woman-owned African-American general contractor and construction manager based downtown Durham in the heart of all of this. The two things, and I wasn't going to speak, but I do want to say a couple of things that I think is important. I've been here before where both teams are equally capable of delivering the physical product that you're talking about, and I think that's the case here. I think that there is also a confidence level from both to be able to do that in the integrity of the process, but this is about more than that, and it is an opportunity to make a distinction around what equity and inclusion really means, and it means the entire community. We've done this on the contracting side. We do this all day, every day. That's what we do. We have the relationships in the community, the African-American community, the Hispanic community. We have a great person involved to help us with that. So I would offer to you that you look at what equity really means, and it is about ownership, and it's not about a partial ownership. It's about full engagement in the process, and I think Akritch has presented that in expanding beyond that 33% of us that can be involved as well. I look forward to being a part of that as well. Thank you. Thank you, Gloria. It's a perfect segue into the first point I want to make. I'm going to talk fast because I got a lot I want to cover. One is we've been absolutely transparent in both our minority equity participation at a third. We've added an additional 5% that would be available for equity participation to the local community. That 5% would substantially eclipse 10,000 square feet of retail. I also want to say that we've been totally transparent that we would have a minimum goal of 25% MWBE participation in the contracting level. We also talked about in my opening remarks about the fact that our program did not substantially change. Our office and residential waiting did not move materially. As a result, we looked and scrubbed through all of the economics of our proposal. We pressure tested it with contractors. Our performers and schedules remained consistent with what we had when we initially submitted, which is why we didn't submit anything additional because our basic framework that we submitted in June remained directionally accurate with what our financial proposal is today. The end of the day, this is about facts. We gave you a scorecard about facts and the five most important waiting elements that were in the proposal, which involved price, affordable housing units, and other key design elements that our partner who owns North Carolina Mutual endorses how our design addresses. We feel very confident that those elements all layer in to the priorities that the council established in the fact-based analysis relative to the waiting criteria. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'll now ask for the Fallon team. You also have three minutes and no more than three minutes. So mayor and council, I didn't know we'd be doing it. He said, she said, what I do want to do is identify that we've been doing things that we just haven't talked through. Our contractor is Hope Brothers Construction with a significant track record here. Terrence right there, working with us in the construction side, our bank is Mechanic and Farmers Bank. It's a community bank, a minority bank. We're not just talking about it. We're doing it. And for us to sit down, we could easily start sitting down and listing all of the things that we've done. I didn't understand that was the purpose of tonight. We can do that. So for us, it's important that you understand that our proposal is a proposal we stood by from the very beginning. It's not something we talk about. It's things that we do. So I want you to understand that. I think Shuad, you want to have a couple of other comments? Gil? Thank you. And I want to add something that was a really important question, Mr. Mayor, that you asked about the financing and about risk. So with 95% of the purchase price being offered at the signing of the development agreement, that takes the risk off the table for the city. So I just want to state unequivocally, when 5% is given at development signing, what's that old saying about a bird in the hand? Okay, 95% of the purchase price of the competing proposal is on the come. Well, 95% of our proposal is at the beginning. Joe Fallon and I stick by this project. We are not changing our proposal to match anyone else's. This has been our proposal from the beginning. I think you can take solace in that that we'll deliver. Thank you. We thank you for your time. We thank you for your efforts. We thank you for your diligence and we're prepared for your vote. Thank you. All right, council members. We've heard from the groups. We've heard from members of the public. Any other questions for staff? Any other questions for staff? All right, matters now before the council. Council members. I move for approval. Move for approval. Of future disposition and redevelopment of 505 West Chapel Hill Street. Alrighty, you've moved the staff recommendation that we approve the Fallon company. Is there a second? Second. So it moved in second that we approve the Fallon company and now I'll ask for any discussion by members of the council. Alrighty. Yeah, well, I'll do a little discussing. First of all, I want to appreciate both of the groups that are here tonight. There's absolutely no question in my mind that both of the groups that presented really good proposals are not just in my mind, but more important than in my mind, in the mind of staff. These two groups were the final two groups for a reason. And that reason, those reasons have been borne out by the proposals that we were able to review. I got a notebook this thick that I've been reading this week and have a much appreciated being able to read all the detail from everyone. I've appreciated and so I'll just say, I agree that either one of these groups could do a good job here. We are very fortunate. I believe it was Mr. Tony. I was talking about the current projects that Acreage has going in our city. And we're very grateful to have Acreage as a great corporate citizen of Durham. I really want to appreciate our staff. We have been very well served by your diligence and analysis. And one of my colleagues said today, I think it was Council Member Freeman. I believe it was Council Member Freeman saying that the analysis by staff was especially, that the fact that it was kind of interdepartmental and cross-departmental and that you engage so many people within the city to bring their various expertise in very appreciative of. I think that this is a tough decision. I am very persuaded by the analysis of staff in terms of the factors that we set out. We set out the five factors. The staff broke them into kind of non-subfactors. And I found the analysis extremely persuasive. No question that Acreage is offering more money. And staff had to, therefore, I think, in my mind make a strong case that the other factors outweigh this. And having reviewed that, having heard about it at the work session and having read it, I did feel that way. But that left me, I'll just speak for myself, thinking about yet another factor which we had not prescribed, but which is a factor in all of the work that we do, which is to thinking about the inclusivity of this. And I think Mr. Webb said earlier that it would be good if we made this explicit in our future development proposals, should we get any of those like this? And I agree with that. And yet, I think that we all know that it is implicit in everything we do. And we've heard from, let's just say on both sides of this issue of what these two developers will bring to our minority communities from just leading citizens of Durham on behalf of both developers. We've heard from Mr. Banks, Dr. McCoy, Mayor Bell, the whole brothers are included, Mr. Rogers, Inclusion and Mechanics and Farmers, Ms. Brown, Dr. Allison, we've heard from Mr. Spaulding, Mr. On the other hand, Mr. Webb, Ms. Shealy, Mr. Beasley, Mr. Myers, Michael Page on behalf of North Carolina Central University, Ms. Howard. And I'm very impressed with the fact that this has inspired, this process has inspired this kind of attention and concern about this issue of inclusion. I do think that I wish that Fallon had been, had named an exact percentage concerning what the minority equity stake will be. And I'm appreciative that Akrige did that. I think that is an advantage for Akrige. But I am also, from the record that I have seen and I have read the whole record, I am also convinced that you all are people who have been able to do what you've said in terms of inclusion. And I think that that speaks very well for you and gives me confidence. So I'm gonna be supporting the staff recommendation on that basis. I will just say, I think I should say just a couple other things about the staff recommendation. I do think that in terms of the affordable housing, I don't think there's, to me, both groups, again, I think cross the threshold. But I think that I agree very much with the staff's analysis of why the wind proposal is preferable in terms of the self-financing, the 4% scattered site condoizing, I think is a very unique and valuable contribution. And I also think that in my mind, the additional commercial space is a substantial, very substantial advantage. If I was to say one thing that I hear constantly in this community from, what is it that Durham doesn't have? What is it that we lack? One thing that I hear constantly and that I believe myself is that we lack major office space for a major corporate headquarters. This is a civic, this is a tremendous civic need. We are constantly, I think, challenged by the fact that we don't have that. There's no guarantee that we will get such a headquarters with the Fallon proposal, but I think that the chances are decent and we will certainly be counting on you all should you all be chosen through the negotiation process after the vote of the council, should we prove it, that you all would be making, bending every effort to make that happen. Yeah, so those are my comments and I'll ask any other member of the council to have a comment. Council Member Alston. Thank you, I appreciate your comments, Mr. Mayor. First, I wanna thank staff for your focus, your objectivity and your nimble responses to this process over the last several weeks. To both the teams, these are both incredibly impressive teams. You both took our direction to heart. You brought important considerations to our analysis and created two proposals that both of whom married are the development opportunity that we have before us now and our values through incredibly creative concepts that I hope will be modeled by other developments in the future here in the city. I do intend to support the staff's recommendation and vote for the Fallon proposal for many of the reasons outlined by the mayor, but in particular the percentage of the cash or the money that's gonna be paid up front at the disposition of the property, their work with an affordable housing developer with a proven track record, the provision of a significant amount of office space, but I think in particular provision of that office space at diverse price points or rental rates, whatever the case may be that I think will be very important here in Durham, the immediate activation of Chapel Hill Street with the redevelopment of the building and I think unique and appropriate reuse of that current site. So I think this is an exciting step forward for the city and for Durham. I wanna thank both the teams for their participation in the process and look forward to moving this forward this evening. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Any other comments about members of the council? Council member Reese. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.  We get people on the controversial ones that really want us to do a thing. We got people that really want us not to do that thing. And so we're often faced with these very binary choices. I can't remember a time when we've made a decision that was hard because both of the options were really great for the city of Durham. And I just wanna thank staff for teaming this up for us to make this really difficult decision. Maybe thanks isn't the right word, but thank you anyway. And I really wanna thank the All Star teams put together by the acreage and Fallon folks. Just not the kind of choice that we are often faced with. And so it's a blessing and a curse in many ways because whatever thing we do, whichever of these projects we choose will be a benefit to the city and the curses. We have to make the best choice we can. I didn't make my decision until a few minutes ago. That's how close these two proposals have been to me throughout the process. Spoken as many of us have a ton of people in the community about what they want out of this project. And just as an aside, I just wanted to having former mayor Bill Bell here tonight to talk to us about this reminded me that when we were in the throes of trying to decide what to do with the property directly adjacent to Durham station, Mayor Bell was a strong advocate for mixed income housing. And the project that's now the world's three departments went a different direction. But ironically, we are here again with another much larger piece of city owned property. And both of the very good proposals before us are mixed income proposals. So I just wanted to say as an aside or Mayor Bell, glad to see that whichever way we go, your vision of a truly mixed income community near the heart of downtown will be realized by what we do tonight. And I thank you for your leadership on that over the years. It's almost unfair that the Fallon Group brought not only former Mayor Bill Bell, but Dr. Livonia Allison to the podium tonight to advocate for what I think is by fractions the superior proposal tonight. The weakest portion of the Fallon proposal in my mind is the unstated minority ownership percentage. And that's something that's been discussed by contrast, I think the two strongest factors of the Fallon proposal are, as my colleagues have said, the fact that the financial investment, the return that the city receives is almost entirely upfront. But number two, I think the ability to bring a nationally recognized affordable housing developer into our community to partner with them and to show them what good partners the city of Durham can be to begin what I hope will be a long and fruitful relationship. With respect to the accurate proposal, let me just say that there's very little bad about it. There's many fantastic aspects to it. I'm particularly appreciative of Acrig's commitment, around minority ownership, which we've heard a number of speakers tonight say how important that is. And I also want to thank the folks in the community who've come out and supported the Acrig proposal. But I think by fractions, by the nearest margin, I do believe that the Fallon proposal is the superior proposal of the two. Like either way we decide to go tonight, the city of Durham will be better for what we do. That's all I had to say about that, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Your other comments? Mayor Progetto. Thank you. I just wanted to also express my thanks to both the teams and to our staff. This has been a long process to get us to this decision. And I really appreciate everyone being so engaged and the work of our staff to get us to where we are. I'm also gonna be supporting the staff recommendation. I think that the proposals are both really good. And of course, we very rarely have a situation where we have to decide between two really great options. And I'm also very grateful for that, for having two really good options for the city of Durham. I think that the information that's been provided to us by staff about the advantages to the Fallon proposal are persuasive to me. And so I'll be supporting that proposal tonight. But I do, I think as everyone is going to say, think that the average proposal is also really good. And so this is a really hard choice. And I just wanna appreciate the fact that we are where we are in Durham, where we have this caliber of company of developer coming to us to do this kind of project here in our city. I think it's just really great that we have so many qualified folks vying for the opportunity to invest here in our city. And I'm also really grateful for that. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Caballero. Thank you. Thank you for everyone who came out. Thank you to our staff who's prepared excellent documents, has walked us through a lot of very technical information that at times was hard to wrap our heads around. Both development groups here have been originally, I'll just be honest, without the saving of the building, it was a pretty clear cut decision for me just because of the community input that we were hearing around preserving the building. Then the Ackridge folks updated their proposals. So then it was this very hard balancing act around what do we want to see in Durham. I will be supporting the Fallon Group tonight as well. Partly, and I'll say we often lean on our staff and one of the things that I know I've said continuously is we often operate in silos. This group does this, we don't interconnect our projects, we don't have a holistic view. And this project was an exemplar model of the kind of work that I expect from staff and you all just really knocked it out of the park. So thank you because that is the expertise that helps me make a better decision. For all groups that are here before us, we will be watching. I know I will be watching to see that you deliver, especially in the Fallon Group here, and Ackridge because we know you have other projects in Durham that you are helping our most marginalized communities build wealth because that is the only way we're gonna battle this problem around gentrification in this community. I'm gonna say all communities, I mean all communities, black, brown, and white. And I know that this community space in the Fallon Project gives us an opportunity to create something really beautiful in Durham and I expect you all to really think that through and provide a space where everyone feels welcome. Thank you. Any other comments? I guess since everyone else is... I can't help but be honest. I was blown away by Fallon's proposal immediately. I have to say that I was underwhelmed by what Ackridge proposed in the beginning. It's really, you definitely stepped it up and I appreciate that. I wanna say that I really wanna thank the entire Ackridge Group for proposing, putting their best foot effort in pushing us to realize just what we have here in Durham. We have a very good talent pool of folks here who can develop just what we need for ourselves and so that for us by us could actually be realized in future projects. I definitely have, I think prior to tonight I probably would have just gone with Fallon and tonight I'm really pushing like going back and forth in my mind on whether or not it should be Ackridge knowing that you guys are local and recognizing that it is important to make sure that when there are organizations that come across and the way in which it did tonight which was to use your integrity and trust and kind of conversation, it really rubs me the wrong way and I'm still on edge on that one but I do know that the conversation around equity is where I wanna see us move as a whole as a city and just not black, brown and white but also Asian and indigenous. Everyone in this city should be able to have access to shared prosperity and it's important that we make sure that black wealth is built because at the base of the issue with our gun violence is black men and if we don't recognize that black men need to be held up in this because of the disparities that they have faced in the past, we will lose. That being said, I really, really wanna thank James Rogers and Carl Webb for being driving forces in these conversations because it's important to note that these two black men are standing here today bringing both of these groups together to bring this project to Durham and I am very proud, I'm very honored to have a decision-making ability in this. I unfortunately do not feel good about how this vote is gonna go tonight but I do wanna say that it's probably in relation to how I feel about how we should support our staff that my vote tonight will be in support of our staff's recommendation and recognizing that when staff makes the proper, like takes the time to build out the proper protocol and follows the process and uses all the tools that they have at their hand, it's important to make sure that I as a council member support them and so I just wanna let you know that I will be supporting the filing group tonight. Any more comments? We have a motion and a second that we support the staff recommendation. Madam Clerk, will you please open the vote? Please close the vote. The motion passes 6-0. I wanna thank both groups for being here tonight. Very much appreciate it and I believe that is the last item to come before us tonight and I'm gonna declare this meeting adjourned at 10 o'clock. Thank you.


back with us here on that's hot stove amidst all the talk about whether Brooklyn should acquire a third star they might already have him on the roster. While Kara Slavert may not have a lock on a starting role he's ready to contribute in whatever way he can. With my game I'm kind of versatile and I could play with the ball play without the ball you know start come off the bench whatever it may be I feel like I can adjust and I can play pretty much any role that you know I'm put in so for me like I said I'm just excited to get out there and contribute to wins in any way possible so you know if that's starting if that's coming off the bench Steve and I will talk more about it but I think everyone's main goal right now is winning basketball games and you know putting us in the best position to do so. I have a suspicion that this is going to be like a continually evolving season where injuries COVID the density of the schedule will present all sorts of different opportunities for us but not necessarily by design if you know what I mean so I don't think it's going to be like well we'll start you know whoever Joe for five games and then Spencer for five then Keras for five I think it's a scenario where we're going to figure it out as we go. Laverne has improved his scoring average every year he's been in the league and he took a major step forward last season becoming one of six guards in the east to average at least 18 points four rebounds and four assists. His scoring average was five points higher than during the 2018-2019 season and he was especially dominant at the NBA campus in Orlando. I remember Frank we were talking about this last game of the season when they were knocked out by Toronto in terms of what's the best role for Keras what do you feel it may be. I think on this team I think coming off the bench would be great for him because this way the ball will be in his hands you know think about that game that he had against the Boston Celtics right before the shutdown I mean on the road against a terrific team he was absolutely dominant and I think the Steve Nash's point let's remember now Kevin Durant is coming back from a significant injury so he's not going to play all 72 games so there's going to be plenty of times where Keras Laverne will be inserted into the starting lineup and there is nothing wrong with coming off the bench. A lot of players the big thing is are you finishing the game and I think a lot of nights he will be finishing the game and let's remember Kevin McKay will start six man Mano Ginobli is going to go into the Hall of Fame mostly came in off the bench really it's about you know getting shots getting minutes and Keras Laverne is going to get his share that especially on this team where this season everything is up for grabs who knows how many games guys will miss it's going to be a short amount of time to play 72 games he'll be out there he's going to be a big part of this team yeah having a ginobli role is not a bad thing at all let's


seen idol turned TV host extraordinaire Mario Lopez has got to be one of the busiest in Hollywood considering you've likely seen him on your screen plenty of times over the last few decades. Whether he's acting, hosting or something else Lopez seems to always be working and that's definitely paid off for the star. Over his long running career he's collected a real estate portfolio of four or more stunning homes across Los Angeles and surrounding areas. And earlier this year Mario began shuffling his properties around. First he bought a new mansion in the quiet area of La Canada Flintridge in California for $9.4 million, then briefly hoisted his long-time mansion-sized villa in Glendale on the market. And most recently he sold his former home in the Burbank area for just over $2 million. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. After Mario Lopez decided to shuffle around his real estate portfolio a bit throughout the past year, most recently in December 2022 he sold his one-time home in Burbank, California. He bought this pad way back in 2004 for $1.35 million and while he didn't get exactly the asking price he still made a profit selling the house for nearly $2.1 million. The property is set up on a corner parcel of land in Burbank which is an area on the southeast end of Los Angeles County and about 12 miles from downtown. The home is also high up with an over-the-trees views of the mountains and offering a gated driveway for privacy. Looking at the outside of Mario's former home, we can see that it's built in a 1930s Spanish villa style and it also has some stunning landscaping full of tropical plants. Inside the home spans 4,387 square feet of space and offers up five beds and five baths throughout. First off, guests are greeted in a foyer with rich brown hardwood flooring underfoot and high ceilings as well as a staircase with winding wrought iron banisters. Those floors continue in most of the common spaces. Other details inside the home include the arched doorways and vintage light fixtures. On either side of that entryway there are formal living and dining rooms, one of which has a fireplace and the nearby kitchen has tiled flooring, stainless steel, appliances and an Eden Center Island. There is also a small dining space here and the kitchen then leads into a cozy family room with fireplace. You'll find another brick fireplace on the lower level in the media room or den as well as a web bar. It also opens to the backyard, which is an entertainer's paradise. We'll circle back to that in just a moment though. Mario's former three-story home had one of the bedrooms and baths privately located on the lowest level. Tucked behind the garage, which is ideal as an in-law suite or for staff. Then the four remaining rooms are up on the top floor of the home including the stunning master suite. This space comes complete with a cedar lined walking closet, balcony with views of the mountains and ensuite with jetted tub, steam shower and more. Now back to that yard. The lot might not be huge but it has plenty of towering palm trees to add to the resort like feel and some features back here include a barbecue station and pizza oven, an outdoor shower and terrace space to eat, hang out or impress guests. Most impressive has got to be the pool complex, which not only boasts the main swimming pool but the attached spa which is shaded and flanked by columns and a four-tier fountain and fire feature nearby. It looks straight out of a luxury Vegas hotel and if that's not enough there's a poolside cantina with a drink fridge and curtain dining cove with built-in heaters and retractable sunshades. That backyard will certainly be hard to talk but Mario's already moved on from this home a couple of times so let's see how the pools at his more recent properties compare. Considering Mario and his family recently upgraded to a larger and newer mansion and another suburb of Los Angeles, the end of August 2022, he put his long time estate in Glendale on the market for $6.5 million. If this home should sell for that price it will mark the most expensive residential sale in the Glendale area over the last five years. And if you don't have that kind of money laying around, property was also reportedly available as a rental at 25k per month. Mario and his wife Courtney Lane Maza have lived here with their three children since 2010 when they purchased the place for $1.94 million just before welcoming their eldest daughter Gia in September of that same year. The Mediterranean style residence was built in 1929 and is made up of four parcels of land, covered nearly an acre with amazing views of the mountains and downtown Glendale. Glendale's a studio in LA that offers mountain trails, hilltop lookouts and is near Pasadena and Burbank. The three level home span about 6,200 square feet of space with six beds, five full baths and two half baths as well as a guest apartment that was fully stacked with an extra 1,000 square feet including a living room, kitchen, two beds and a bath. Inside Mario and Courtney's home has more than enough space for Gia and their two sons Dominic and Santino. The property has been majorly updated over the years but it still kept some of the original details such as arched windows and the beamed wooden ceilings. These blend well with features like the silver walls, polished wooden floors and some of the more modern living areas. At the entryway there were soaring ceilings and the couple also added a grand piano. Well the attached step down living room offered leather sofas and other dark furniture. There was also a family room with arched fireplace, dining room with bar area and a kitchen that boasted premium great appliances, a spacious island and a built in dining booth set in a stone arch with leather banquets. Up in the master suite the ceilings are beamed and vaulted and there's also a spa style ensuite which has a wrought iron spiral staircase leading to the home gym. The gym is more like a fitness dance studio here with a mirrored wall on one side and a row of floor-to-ceiling windows in the other which gives a bird's-eye view of the backyard. Speaking of the yard the grounds offer a swimming pool and spa surrounded by a massive terrace as well as a covered hangout space next to the pool with retractable canvas shades, heaters and fire pits. There's also an outdoor kitchen and barbecue area with beer tap and ice machine and elsewhere there are a few other activities such as a trampoline and bocce ball court. While living here the couple often spent a ton of time outside with their kids swimming laps in the pool or just kicking it on the deck and we can see why. While the mansion was on the market recently it was seemingly taken off for a brief period over the holiday season so we'll have to wait and see when the home actually sells. Of course this house tour would not be complete without checking out Mario's most recent home purchase. Before putting that Glendo house on the market the Lopez family already acquired their new and current residents in July 2022 for $9.4 million. This mansion is located somewhat near their old neighborhood in the area of La Quianada Flintridge which is known to be a quiet and posh place to live and is about 15 miles from downtown LA. Mario's new property sits on 1.25 acres of landscaped grounds covered in plenty of oak trees and this mansion is quite a bit bigger than their last family home. Clocking in at about 9,300 square feet of space with six beds, six baths and three powder rooms. The two level abode is built in a Spanish style and was newly constructed in 2022 so you can bet the place has all of the modern bells and whistles Mario could have hoped for including state of the art home automation and security systems throughout. Inside there are modern and stylish living spaces most of which are fashioned in an open plan layout along with soaring ceilings including a formal living area with double height wood beam ceilings and a walnut and black marble fireplace. The modern kitchen also has the same beam ceilings as well as a bar style seating top of the line appliances including a restaurant sized fridge while the formal dining room offers walls of glass that open to the outdoor areas. If main floor living spaces aren't enough Mario's new family home boasts an entertainment space on a lower level that has a 600 bottle wine cellar, bar and plenty of space to hang out. Elsewhere in the home you'll find a home office with walnut built-ins, a deluxe dog washing station and a plush movie theater. Moving outside of the new Lopez digs there's a pair of elevated covered patio spaces one for dining outside and the other for hanging out which overlook the swimming pool and spa. Aside from all of that there's an open air pavilion with an outdoor fireplace, kitchen and pool bath. Not to mention under some trees else were in the yard there's a peaceful and private terrace from which you can catch a view of the entire house. All right well now that we looked at three of Mario Lopez's family homes I think that'll bring this house to a twin end. Which one of his properties was your favorite? For some reason I love the pool complex at his first home in Burbank. 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I was a Communist for the FBI. The story you are about to hear is based on the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Sevettik, who for nine fantastic years lived as a Communist for the FBI. Here is our star, Dana Andrews, as Matt Sevettik. Nine years. For nine long years I played my part, like walking a tightrope in a circus. But if I fell, there wasn't going to be any net to save me. It's a lonesome, thankless job, trying to be a Communist for the FBI. In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Sevettik, undercover man. Andrews as Matt Sevettik, undercover man. This story from the confidential file is marked the red record. Comrade Matt. I went to a meeting in my Communist cell. It was Tuesday, 9 p.m. There were six of us there, four men, two women. We went through all the reports, propaganda, the directors, and then Comrade Ted, the leader of our cell, had a word to say. Just keep this in mind, Comrade. The party expects nothing impossible, just do what you're told. I think that's all. Good night. Oh, Comrade Matt, wait just a second, will you? Me? Sure. Stunt. That's coming. Have you ever been in Chicago? Passed through a couple of times, that's all. You've got any connections there, relatives? Anybody there know you? Not that I know of. Okay. You know, Comrade, you're a pretty good-looking guy, and that isn't going to do any harm on the job we've got for you. What job? The Central Committee decided from what I told them about you. That you're the comrade to handle this follow-up. I don't understand. You don't have to understand. All you have to do is obey orders. Okay, what are my orders? Pack a bag full of clothes and be at the information desk at the Union Station at 1 a.m., four hours from now. Where am I going? Don't worry about it. Then, uh, how long will I be gone? Who knows, comrade? Maybe forever. Comrade Ted gave me some money for expenses, and then we walked out to the street together. The corner we parted. Well, see you again, comrade. See you again, comrade.  See you again, comrade, they say. They'll see you again. That's one thing you can be sure of. I walked across town to the place where I lived and went up to my room. This is John F. Smith. I want to talk to Uncle Zach. Okay, man. I'm being sent somewhere. I'm not sure, but I think it's Chicago. I'm supposed to make a contact at the Union Station at 1 a.m. You know what it's about? No idea. Chicago? Yes, there's an operation in Chicago that we've heard about. I'll give you a number to call if you need it. Maybe you will. Michigan 9-1-1-1-2. Michigan 9-1-1-1-2. Don't write it down. Just remember it. I'll remember. At 1 o'clock, I was waiting at the information desk in the Union Station. Drag brief for Cincinnati. Columbus, Cleveland. Hello, comrade. Comrade Ted. Here's your ticket and your reservation. The trains do now, so get going. Where am I going? Chicago. You'll be met at the station. Come on. Who's going to meet me? How'll I know? Say, hello, George. How's Aunt Agatha? How will he know me? Don't worry about that. He'll know you. Good luck, comrade. I stared out of the window at the lights splashing behind the night. Lights in the farmhouses, gas stations, stores, traffic lights, auto lights. The lights at peace, I thought. Those are the lights we're trying to keep burning. George, how's Aunt Agatha? Mike was the man's name. Comrade Mike. He took me to his room in a boarding house. He took off his shoes and lit a pipe. Settled down in the chair with broken springs. Then he looked at me as if I were something in an aquarium behind glass. Interested, but unsympathetic. At his side, there was a record player and he switched it on. You know my little music, comrade? Just in case somebody on the other side of the wall might be interested in our conversation. Oh, comrade Mike. Just Mike will do. Oh, Mike then. Mike, tell me, what goes on? Why did they send me here? You don't know? No idea. When our comrade's like this, there was this man named Jay. He's a comrade. Jay's sort of theatrical producer and pretty high in the party. I don't know exactly why, but they kind of got the idea. He was a working with the other team. You know, what happened? Oh, comrade Jay. May die. Oh, definitely comrade. You never saw a need of suicide. When I arrange a suicide, it's what I mean arranged. Take your word for it, comrade. But I still don't get the reason why they sent me here. Well, I'll tell you what. It's this way. Comrade Jay had a little black book with some names and addresses and notes in it. And I always carried it with him, but when we found his body, it wasn't on him. It wasn't in his car, it wasn't in his room. It didn't find it? No, so it didn't. And the party's just got to have that book. And that's why we brought you here. Well, why me? Why bring me all the way here? Well, I'll tell you. The party brought you here because they think you got away with women.  Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Oh, no, no, no. That's right, comrade. You see, comrade Jay produced a show in a nightclub on South Wallback. The star of the show was a girlfriend of his named Gloria Dawn. Gloria Dawn. So? So the party believes comrade Jay may have left that little black book with Gloria.  It's up to you. You mean I'm supposed to get this girl to confide in me? In any way that you please, comrade. Of course she hasn't got the book. Oh, she got it somewhere. And that's why you're here. You talk sweet to that dain till she tells you everything she knows. Okay. Where do I find her? He's working in a double or nothing club on the South Side. You find her and you talk to her and your report to me will be good. I hope. Comrade. Yeah, I'd find Gloria Dawn and my report would be good. It would have to be. I've been instructed by the comrade. The double or nothing club was loud and strictly not for children under the age of 35. And now we take great pride in presenting the star of our show with Gloria. It was just about what I expected and I was not really surprised when I caught a glimpse of comrade Mike in a far corner. I expected to be followed because the comrade just don't trust each other out of sight. After several hundred years the floor show was over. Comrade Mike was still somewhere behind me and in front of me was anything from simple flirtatious nonsense to sudden death. Poor comrade Jay. I found my way backstage to the dirty corridor where the dressing room is left. Yeah. Miss Dawn. Yeah. Remember me? No. That's very. I never saw you before, mister. Come in. Lose yourself, Tom. All right. I just wanted to talk to you about Jay. Jay. What about him?  Well, I... Come in. Sit down while I take off this makeup. What'd you say your name was? That's very. Oh, yeah. Mind if I ask? Are you a cop? No, certainly not. Why? And why are you asking me about Jay? Well, he was a friend of mine. I heard he was a friend of yours, that's all. Oh. You were a friend of his. How long did you know him? Well, it's been years. I guess I first knew him right here in Chicago. He was a stinker. Sure. A real stinker? Of course he was. From the day he was born. Why don't you come back here to talk to me about Jay? Why? Because you're beautiful. At least I thought you were beautiful out there, but now that I see you closer, about your makeup, you're even more beautiful. Okay, honey. Wait for me outside. When I got home that night, I was questioned at length by Comrade Mike. What did I say to Gloria? What did she say to me? Where did we go when we left the nightclub? What was her reaction when I mentioned Comrade Jay? We know Comrade Jay had that book up the time he went into Gloria's dressing room. We know he didn't have it when he left. We searched every inch of that dressing room, and we know it isn't that. We know Gloria didn't take it away with her. Gloria is exactly what she seems to be, a body without a brain. Look, Comrade, this assignment is nothing to trouble. I don't like it. Well, I suppose I don't find the book. I suppose you were dead, Comrade. Back to Dana Andrews, starring as Matt Sabetik. And I was a Communist for the FBI and the second act of our story. Just pretending to be a loyal member of the Communist Party was hard enough. But having to be a detective for the Party was a little harder. A couple of days went by. Gloria and I were together day and night. I tried to get her to talk about Jay. She wanted to talk about herself. But on the third night, after the show, when her dressing room... Close your eyes, honey. Roger, eyes closed. Hey, Gloria, why don't you think Jay killed himself? Did I ever say that? Believe it, don't you? Oh, I don't know. Only I think he knew he was going to be knocked off that night. He came in here when I was talking to him. He came in here when I was dressing like now. He had a little portable radio with him. He put it down on the table there and said, this is for you, babe. If I never come back, this radio will play. He didn't come back and the thing wouldn't play. If I never come back, this radio will play. Yeah, that's what he said. Did you tell anybody about that? Tell who? The cops? I wouldn't tell them the time of day. What happened to the radio, Gloria? What did I do with the thing? That dressing room is so cluttered up. I guess I left it in the property room with all the costumes and junk. Do you think it's still there? What difference does it make? Oh, I thought I might be able to fix it for you. I know a little about radios. Yeah? Well, maybe it's still there. Come on. This is it. It looks so beat up. I don't think you could sell it for a buck. You think you can fix it? Well, no. At least I can see if the tubes light up. I'll snap off this back panel. You find the trouble, honey? Yeah, I think so. Let me take it with me. I'll get it fixed for you as good as new. Okay, honey. Honey, do you believe in second sight? When Jay left here that night, he said if he never comes back, that radio will play. Oh, forget about the radio, but he must have known he'd never come back. Maybe he did know he'd never come back. Maybe he was right about the radio, too. Maybe it will play. I took Gloria home to her apartment, and when I finally got away, I had the radio tucked under my arm. I'll... I'll see you again, won't I? I'll bring the radio back to you tomorrow, baby. Maybe tonight. Okay, honey. Take care. Don't worry about that, sweetheart. I'll take care. For sure. I walked along a Chicago street I'd never seen before, and all the time I was conscious of the fact that I was being followed. Comrade Mike, of course. And a slow-moving car behind me. At a street corner there was an empty taxi. Where to? Just drive. There's trouble, bud. Trouble? What do you mean? Okay, where to?  I'm trying a radio. Portable? Yeah, maybe I do. It's a garage where I know a guy. Do you want me to take you there? That's exactly where I want you to take me. Guy's name is George. Want me to wait? No, I don't know how long this will take. Okay. 140. Your name is Aronski, isn't it? What if it is? A.J. Aronski, license M12659. Look, pal, if you got a beat... Keep your hair on, Aronski. I was just reading your card. I'm one of those people who remembers everything. I'll have 40. There you are. Thanks. Oh, thanks, pal. Don't give her the thought. Hello? The clock strikes two o'clock, and it's ten minutes wrong.  George was nowhere. But Comrade Mike's not far behind. Not far. Close. Hello, Comrade. What's the idea of following me, Comrade? Just routine, Comrade. You got your orders, I got mine. So they don't trust me here? Who trusts anybody anywhere? Let's have a look at that radio, Comrade. Okay. Why? Because he got it in that damn... Give it to me. Now, wait a minute. Wasn't that the idea I was supposed to make friends with that girl? Well, so... So she loves music.  Am I doing wrong, Comrade? Look, we trust you. We trust everybody. We trusted Comrade Jay. Let's look at that radio. Why, Comrade? Because maybe there's a little black book inside it. Give it here. All right, Comrade. Here. It's a cute little job, isn't it? Don't suppose it weighs five pounds. Now, what do you think is inside it? I don't know, Comrade. You don't know? Nothing. Nothing, Comrade? And why'd you bring it here? I told you to get it fixed. She wants me to get a radio repaired. Maybe she's crazy wanting to get it done this time of night. But would the party want me to refuse? Okay, Comrade. It might be a good thing for you to find that book. Here comes a guy outside, but don't you worry, Comrade. You won't be alone. Somebody out here? Oh, it's this radio. I heard somebody talking to somebody out here. Oh, that was my friend. Out there in the car. Oh, okay. What's the matter with this? Yeah, what's the matter with it? I'll have a look at it. You got a phone? Yeah, here under the counter. Local call? Yeah, local call. That'll be 15 cents, if you contain me now. Taking a phone call? I saw you from outside. I thought I might be able to help you. All right, I was just calling Glory to tell her I'd be back in a few minutes. I'll tell her for you, huh? Hello? Hello? Who is it? Who do you want? What number is it? What number did you want? Oh, trouble. Wrong number. A real wrong number. What is a number, pal? Let's try it again. Let's forget it. What's the number? Oh, I don't remember. You forgot it so soon? Just so. I can't find anything wrong with this, mister. Just the two doors pushed out of the socket. That'll be one buck. No star garage. Radio service. Wait a second. Did you call Michigan 9-1-1-1-2? No. No, I didn't. I did. Give me that phone. Hello? Is this the person who called Michigan 9-1-1-1-2? That's right. Who's speaking? Who did you want? Nobody. Must have dialed the wrong number. Let's go, huh? Poor comrade Jay. Doing a job for the FBI. A communist for the FBI. Maybe you ought to feel noble and brave about it. But right now, you're walking along a dark, deserted street with comrade might one pace behind you. The bows in his pocket is either a 38 or a 45. At glorious place, Mike shoved his gun in my back. Now you look. When we go through the library, let's not make any mistakes. Huh, comrade? No mistakes. All right, move. Now wait a second. Why do you want to see her?  I might have been willing to believe that she didn't know anything about comrade Jay's little black book until you made that phone call. Now I think I'm going to find out where it is. It may be a little tough for both of you, but I'll find out. Let's go, comrade. Now wait, comrade. Look, you're making a terrible mistake. What do you think I was sent here? I know why. To check on you, comrade. Nuts. You don't believe me? How long are you planning to live? You're crazy. The party wouldn't do that to me. Wouldn't they? I'm not going to try to convince you.  Nuts. Sure, nuts. But you can't be sure, can you? You can't be sure of anything in the party. Here, look at this card. Here, what is it? Let me see that. Look at it, comrade. The card was nothing but my driver's license, but he took it and stared at it in the dark, and that's all the break I needed. I hit him just right, and he was out like a light. The gun's still in his hand. My pure luck-a-proud car came by. I melted into the shadows of the officer's picked comrade Mike up. Now, wait a minute. Put that light on his face again. Yeah, you know who this guy is? He's Mike Debronski. Well, this guy's wanted for everything. Get him in here. Only a few minutes later, I made my report to the Chicago office of the FBI. Yes, go on, Smithick. It's a taxi. Illinois 4X1297, driver AJ Oronski, license M12659. You'll find the book that was hidden in the portable radio behind the backseat of the taxi. I think it's important. Anyhow, the commies thought it was important enough to justify killing. The street in Chicago, dark, deserted, lonely. Why should you be walking alone, comrade? Where are your friends? When you're in the party, you can't have any friends. Where are you going, comrade? What's at the end of the road? You walk in the night and you wonder what is at the end of the road. But I know. How well I know. I'm a communist for the FBI. I walk alone. Dana Andrews will return in just a moment. This is Dana Andrews with a word about the story. You just heard.  And it's worth it, million times over. Because at the end of the road is freedom. And this story, as in all others, names, dates, and places are fictitious to protect innocent persons. Many of these stories are based on incidents in the life of Matt Sevetic, who worked undercover for the FBI. Next week, another fantastic adventure. Join us, won't you?


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the purple floral deck from Alloy Studios and Yolanda. Now, you might remember Alloy Studios, they also released a blossom deck, a spring deck, and a fall deck. Probably more popular, you would have seen the peacock deck from Bicycle. If you saw the peacock deck from Bicycle, same designers of that deck. All right, so the floral deck, this is from Alloy Studios. They have a really young designer named Yolanda and she's the one that was responsible for doing all the artwork on this deck. And from their ad copy, Alloy Studios says that more than 1800 hours of time was put into producing this deck of cards. Alloy hopes that the floral deck will stand out and that it'll be a welcomed addition to your collection. This deck is 100% custom artwork. You got metallic inks on the tuck box, the backs of the cards and the faces, a nice thick tuck stock paper, and a custom tuck seal. The front of the tuck case is kind of a diamond pattern. You can see that with four little triangle shapes in the corners. The back design mirrors it, so it's the same on the front and the back. And it does say floral right there in the center. The top, it's all swirly and swooshy and there's your custom tuck seal right there. This side of the tuck case says floral deck by Alloy Studios designed by Yolanda. And this side of the tuck case says the United States playing card company and a linoid finish. The bottom of the tuck case has some ad copy about the United States playing cards company. And the tuck flap right there says welcome to floral. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards are printed from the United States playing card company and they do come on their retail stock. They do have a modern cut and air cushion finish. And if you'd like to learn more about stock cut or finish, you can click the link below in the description. Your back design is the same as the tuck case, although it doesn't say floral there in the center. It is a two-way back design. You can see that it has a white border, but then that white border also kind of frames out a diamond in the center. There's no outlines. There's no hard edges. Everything's all very organic, very swooshy, very watery. The floral aspect is seen in like vine work, which is very reminiscent of classic cards. Classic cards did carry a lot of vine imagery, a lot of flower imagery. And she certainly is taking that approach, but then she's adding her own very modern, very elegant approach to this deck. Your ace of spades, the spade pip, the center pip, is made up of that floral swooshy pattern that Yolanda had on the tuck case and on the back design of the cards. And you can see that it's not really outlined. The spade is actually comprised of the design elements and it makes for a very simplistic ace of spades. With this deck you're going to get two extra cards. One of them is a coming soon card. It's this colored turquoise card right here. And the second card is a blank card that is really good for magic tricks. Also with this deck you're going to get two Harlequin Masked Jokers. One of them you can see has that silver metallic ink and the other one is left black and white and they do say Joker in the corners. The rest of the cards as you can see are completely custom. So your court cards, they do look familiar, but they don't have any bordered edges to them. They've been blown up in a little bit of places. The coloring has been redone and they've each one been redrawn. You also have redrawn pips. You have brand new harts, brand new spades, clubs, diamonds. You even have a brand new font in the corner. So like I said, 100% custom artwork, more than 1800 hours spent on the design of this deck. If you are into decks that have a very artistic center, decks that would be really cool for collectibles, or maybe you just like the color purple, this would be a good deck to pick up and collect. All right, so that is my review from the Floral Deck, the purple Floral Deck from Alloy Studios and Yolanda. We'd like to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this deck for us so that we could review it for you. And if you'd like to purchase your own, you can find it wherever Murphy's Magic products or fine cards are sold. Thanks, bye.


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