The Herald Perry Show! Honest Herald the Homemaker! The town of Melrose Springs boasts one radio station and one newspaper both owned by an old boaster named Mr. Carruthers. One of the things he doesn't boast about is his radio program on his station called Honest Herald the Homemaker. Why? Because Honest Herald is too honest. Listening to Honest Herald is a morning must in Melrose Springs, especially with the ladies. Let's join them. Well, good morning girls. Time to visit with your old friend Honest Herald the Homemaker, bringing you news, views and clues to good products. As usual, that's Home on the Range, our theme song, and now we're going to start cooking with gas. Well, I made it funny. I have a very important announcement to make later in the program that concerns all of you, so please stand by girls. But first, let's dip into our mailbag, huh? Well, here's a letter from a listener in Charlieville. She says, last week I started trading with a different grocer. When the boy arrived with the delivery, I asked him his name. He said Truman. I said, is that your last name? He said, yes ma'am. My first name is Harry. Harry Truman, I said. That's a pretty well-known name. He said it ought to be. I've been delivering groceries around here for four years. Well, that lady certainly was told, A woman likes to be told That her hair is fine as gold She may know that you're her fella But it's better when you tell her A woman likes to be told I snuck that in, didn't I?  Two weeks ago, a very high-pressure salesman sold me on the idea of introducing a new shampoo product on this program. Because it was new and not fully tried and tested I asked all you ladies to accept a free sample from the manufacturer and then report to me. Since then I've had numerous complaints on the product from you girls and I'm canceling the account. I may get into a little trouble about this but I want you to know that Grandma Llewellyn's liquid lather shampoo will never be mentioned on this program as long as I have anything to say about it. Good morning, station KHJP. Yes, madam, after listening to Honest Harold you're pouring your Grandma Llewellyn's liquid lather shampoo down the drain. I'll tell him. No, I don't think it'll hurt the drain. Well, thanks for draining, or I mean for calling. Hello, station KHJP. Hello, Rosemary.  Did you hear Honest Harold's program this morning? Well, he just went off the air and between you and me it's liable to be for the last time. Boss Carruthers called his nephew, Mr. Peabody and now Mr. Peabody is going to call Harold and here comes Harold out of the studio. I'll call you back. Well, good morning, Gloria. Did you hear my program this morning? Yes, I did, Mr. Hamp and Mr. Peabody heard it too. He was eating his breakfast at the time. Oh? He choked on his yogurt. He did? Oh, my goodness. Well, you know my policy, Gloria. I test all my products before... By the way, Gloria, did you test that new product for me over the weekend? Oh, yes, I spent the entire weekend sunbathing. Good. How did that freckle cream work out? Oh, just wonderful. I got a whole new crop of freckles. I'm glad I didn't have a valina. Try it.  Well, thank you very much. Well, see you tomorrow, same time, same station. I hope so. Yeah. What? Mr. Peabody wants to see you in his office right away. Is he in there now? I'm afraid so. I can hear him tapping his fingers. Yeah, I know what you mean. Well, that's radio, give and take. Only so far I haven't found many who will take what I've got to give. Well, keep your lines crossed, Gloria. Good luck. Yeah, thanks. She's a nice kid. Well, here goes nothing. Maybe I was a little hasty about cancelling that shampoo account. I don't know, though. My listener's objected to the stuff. Besides, I tried it and took all the wave out of my hair. No, sir, my head tells me I did the right thing. And a big shot Stanley Peabody, so much as raises his voice to me, I'll... Stanley. Well, thank you for opening the door. Come in. Oh, thank you. I'm glad you're in such a jovial mood. It may help you digest what I've been discussing with my uncle and Mr. Carruthers. Sit down. Oh, thank you. New furniture, eh? Nice. Yes, yes. Look about you. This fine radio station, thousands upon thousands of dollars were spent erecting these handsome studios. Cheap cement. The finest electrical engineers designed our powerful transmitters. Mr. Carruthers even hired me at great expense to run the organization. Relative. You come along and nullify it all. Nullify? Now, hold on. You're the one that better try to hold on. To your job. You're on probation. Probation? Yes.  Stop! Do you hear? The only way I could hear any better is if you were sitting in my lap. It's a good gag when you first started your home-making program, to insist that a sponsor's product must meet the lofty standards of your female listeners. A very clever move from a showmanship angle. Well, thank you, Stanley. Somebody else must have thought of it. Oop! What a mean young man. But this idea of cancelling advertisers. I'm sorry, Stanley, but I must uphold my principles. Your principles? What about this radio station? What's going to hold us up? Not this cheap cement, brother. What possible justification did you have to cancel that shampoo account? Well, my listeners complained about it. And just what great fault did your listeners find with the shampoo? Well, Stanley, as one little woman put it, there's too much sham and not enough poo. You're making me very angry, too.  I'm sorry you choked on your yogurt. Please! Instead of wasting your time testing product, you're making me very angry, too. Instead of wasting your time testing products, why don't you do something constructive? If you have to crusade, go after something worthwhile, such as lowering taxes. Are taxes too high? Or try to do something to better Melrose Springs. What? Now, I'll give you an example. Mrs. Carruthers, my aunt, who, as you know, is the political leader among the women of this town, is planning to run me for mayor.  I thought you wanted me to do something to better Melrose Springs.  And remember, you've got one more chance. But Stanley!  Oh, brother, I guess I better go. That's murder. True detective magazine. That Peabody. I'd like to condense his head for Reader's Digest. Only they wouldn't buy it. What a fine mayor he'll make. Why didn't I fight back? I don't have to take that sort of talk from anybody. My 1936 S6 is almost paid for. Besides, this is a free country. Of course, I don't want to be so free. I don't have a job. I've got responsibilities. There's mother, cousin Billy. You've got to keep little Billy with me or he'll drift back to the racetracks. Hey! Oh, hello, Doc. Talking to yourself, aren't you? Now, that's better than talking to some people I know. I always did prefer animals to people. Fact is, that's why I became a veterinarian instead of a MD. Animals are more considered. Never did have a horse call me in the middle of the night unless it was serious. Can I drop you any place? Well, I'm heading home. Well, fine. Hop right in, then. I just came downtown to get some dog biscuits. Have one? They're kind of small. But they're crammed full of vitamins. They don't crackle or pop, but they've got plenty of snack.  I just give them to my dog. The only thing that'll keep them from barking during your radio program. I'd like to put some of those dog biscuits and Stanley Peabody's yogurt maybe to keep him from barking. You and Stanley don't get along too well, do you? Well... Well, not many fellas do when they're in love with the same girl. I guess not. If he could get me out of the way, Doc, he'd probably marry Evelina. Can't understand what you two see in that niece of mine. All she is is young and pretty. Yeah, she's beautiful. Well, all us yanses are. Tell you that she's domineering, though. Why, she even tells old man crothers how to run his newspaper. If I had a secretary like that, I'd... I'd marry her if she'd have me. I don't know. She's taking care of me, the twins and all the stray dogs and cats I'm treating. I don't know, she's got room for one more. Oh? What? Besides my nephew from Cleveland's planning to visit us. Oh, that's quite a fellow, that boy. Yeah, it makes $45 a week when he's not striking. Well, anyway, this is a fine time for me to be thinking about getting married to Evie. I'm about to lose my job. What, again? Yeah, serious this time. In fact, Mr. Crothers had Stanley put me on probation. You're too honest, eh? Well... Yeah, I remember it's giving you trouble all your life. They think I should forget about testing home products and get behind a project to make the town better. Yeah, boss Crothers would like that. It seems how he owns most of the town. What you slowing down for? Is this spring wagging out of gas? Oh, this is the school zone, Doc. Oh, yeah. Say, if you want a good community project, son, how about getting the town to build a livery stable? A livery stable? There aren't any horses in this town? Well, that might bring them back. Sure, get some of these cars off the streets. Devil's pulley thing. Doc, you're just an old fuddy-duddy. Automobiles are a boon to mankind. Now, my boy, if nature didn't tend to... Say, watch out for that little kid. What? Oop, I'll go around him. Hang on, Doc. Yeah. Made it. Where are we? Up on the curb, in only three tires left. Certainly close, Doc. That little scallywag run for the schoolhouse. I'll bet he's scared. He's scared? See, old Doc, there ought to be a policeman on this corner. See, I'm getting an idea. Well, let me out. I'm getting a horse. I'm going to contact the school principals, but they're all behind me. Just can't wait to tell Evelyn about this. I hope the dear little twin sisters have gone to bed. An old doc yak-yak, too. Dear old doc, I wonder if the old boy sleeps standing up like a horse. Harold. Thank you, Evie. Thank you. I was hoping you'd drop over. I've been worried. I understand you had some trouble at the radio station. Yeah, I did. But today I hit on a plan that'll make Mr. Carruthers approve of me. Well, take it from his secretary, Harold. It'll have to be quite an idea. Oh, this one is. Stanley Peabody suggested what he said was a worthwhile project, convincing my listeners that he should be the next mayor, but I've got a better plan and a more honest one. Oh. I'm going to start a radio campaign to put a policeman at every corner of every schoolhouse so that our children can cross the streets. Oh, that's a wonderful idea, Harold. Is Mr. Carruthers enthused? Well, I haven't spoken to Mr. Carruthers yet. I've got a call in for Stanley to call me here. I hope you're staying at home this evening. Don't worry about that. Look at all the work Mr. Carruthers sent me home with. Yeah, slave driver. Oh, but you know, this is interesting. I'm proofreading a series of articles that Mr. Carruthers wrote for his Sunday editorial. It's on one of his pet subjects. Lip reading. Lip reading? Mm-hmm. He is a bit deaf, you know. Deaf too? I discovered that you can learn a lot about people by watching their lips. Well, a fella doesn't like to just watch some lips. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I've been practicing lip reading here in front of the mirror. Mirror? Wouldn't it be more fun practicing with something not quite so cold? A nice, live, suntanned assistant? I'm available. All right. Now, you watch how my lips form the words. Oh, brother, I'm watching. Now, after me, make the lips form a simple word, like rhubarb. Rhubarb. Oh, don't try to spell the word. Just say it, naturally. Rhubarb. Rhubarb. This is silly, yeah. No, it is. Really? Well, it may have some merit. Let's see. Now it's my turn, huh? Now you form a word with me. Ready? Say prunes. All right. Prunes. Oh, hair. That wasn't fair. No, but it was tasty. You shouldn't have said prunes. You were irresistible. Evie. Yes? It's strange that lip-reading should make me think of marriage. But now that I'm sure of my job again... Oh, that must be Stanley now. Yeah, it would be. I'll get it. Hello? Is that you, hemp? Did you call me? Yes, I did, Stanley. I've taken your advice. Oh, really? Uh-huh. Your suggestion about crusading to better Melrose Springs? I want you to tell Mr. Carruthers about it. Well, I certainly will. What do you mean about deciding to back me for mayor? Oh, no. My idea is to have a policeman on every corner at every school. What? A policeman on every corner? Huh? Hemp, do you realize there are four schools in this town? There are four corners of each school? That's 16 additional policemen. 812, say he's right. 16 policemen, do you know what that means? It means safety for our school children. It means higher taxes. And do you know who pays most of the taxes in this town? Well, Mr. Carruthers, of course. Yes. And what may I ask is wrong with the suggestion I gave you. You mean to back you for mayor? Well, he's one of my lady listeners, so aptly put it. Too much sham and not enough poo. That did it? Huh? To coin a phrase, my dear boy. You've reached the end of your rope, hemp. Hey, that's pretty clever. What? You're fired. Fired, but Stanley. I guess he didn't like my idea. Yeah, I'm finished. In more ways than one. Well, mother always said, it's important to have an open mind, but maybe I've got a hole in my head. We'll return to the second act of our story, honest Harold, in just a moment. I think this is a good time for a reminder that safety and driving is mighty important, especially on these vacation days. There are twice as many cars on the road during the summer months, and that means you should be twice as careful.  Remember, it may be your own. And now back to the Harold Perry Show. We're back in honest Harold's hometown, Melrose Springs. It's the next day, and we find ourselves at the radio station. Good morning, Station KHJP.  Honest Harold's program? Well, uh... Hold the wire, little Billy, and I'll tell you all about it. Hello, Station KHJP. Oh, hello, Rosemary.  Little Billy's on the other line. You know Harold's cousin, that cute ex-jockey. Hello, little Billy. Hasn't Harold told you? Well, I guess he didn't want to worry you, but he isn't the homemaker here anymore. He's been replaced with an organ recital. He packed up his test tubes and went home to mother. Yes, I think you'll find him there. He looks so sad. Goodbye, Billy. Oh... Stop worrying. Everything happens for the best. Remember, honesty is the best policy. Yes, mother, honesty is the best policy, but I'm beginning to think the premiums come pretty high.  I think I've had enough lunch, mother. I'm trying to keep my weight down, you know. Oh, you're not too fat. Oh, yes, I am. The last time I took a train trip and got into an upper, it immediately became a lower. You're just healthy-looking, but you won't be if you don't stop worrying any more.  There you go. Always thinking about other people. Take me, for instance. You? Yes, I hold you back.  A man deserves those things when he's touching 40. I'm not touching 40, mother. I'm beating the living daylights up. Besides, mother, I couldn't do without you. You know I'm a tosser. Who'd sew the buttons back on my pajamas? Well, I'm off. You haven't a program anymore. Oh, I found a program, mother. I'm going down to the Hoover School. If the city won't hire extra policemen, I'll direct traffic there. Oh, that sounds wonderful, my boy. But here, if you're going to school, I'd better wrap up your dessert. But, mother... Now, Harold, remember how hungry you always got when you went to school? Here's your pie. Pie? Yes, lemon chiffon. But, mother, remember my diet. Lemon is on your diet. Lemon is, yes, you win, mother. I'll take the pie. What am I going to do with this piece of pie? Can't hold it in my hand while I'm directing traffic. Oh, well, I'll eat it. Yeah. Dear old mother, she really thinks I ought to get married. Married to Evelina. That'll be wonderful. She's so pretty. She can't cook as well as mother, but that's good. I can stay on my diet. What about mother and little Billy? Maybe Billy would be our babysitter. Babies. Large family. Five would be enough. I'm dreaming again. Haven't even got a job. Probably have to leave Melrose Springs and be a test pattern. He'll probably marry Stanley Peabody. Well, he's going to be mayor. She'd like that. Mrs. Mayor Peabody. Oh, brothers. Hey, Harold! Oh, little Billy. I don't want to see him now. Walk faster. Hey, where are you off and running?  I didn't see you. I'm not myself today. Let me be the first to congratulate you. Oh, Billy. What's this I hear about you being scratched? Scratched. Yeah. Declared. Fired. Billy, must you always use that racetrack lingo? You've got everybody in this town doing it. Sure. I'm getting to be a favorite. There you go. Take care of this Peabody. I'll put a burr under his saddle and ride him into the rail. Billy, you promised me when you came to live with us here that you wouldn't get in any trouble. But you've got a lot of good races left in you, cuz. My residents send you to the glue factory. Come on, we'll fight your others and Peabody. You and me will pool our forces. Excuse me, Billy, but that's no pool. That's a bird bath. I can put you in shape. We'll start with early morning workouts. What do you think I am? A horse? Look, Billy, I don't want to fight anybody. It's true they didn't take my school plan. I still think I was right. I'm going to the Hoover School myself. You mean you're going to direct traffic? Well, somebody's got to help those children across the street. Oh, so that's why you're wearing that silly air raid helmet. Well, yes. Well, Peabody may think he's running you out of the money, but his nose ain't crossed the wire yet. I'll see you later. Billy, what are you up to? Me? A stubborn mule. Horse doctor, about a mule? Oh, well, that sounds logical. I can't just speak, and it's your nickel to start talking. I got to see you right away. I'm at 6th and Hoover. But I'm in consultation with the patient. Patient? Yeah, I'm clipping a sheep. Okay, I'll be there in a minute. Well, things are never the same again after you have a phone put in. I'll share you later. How long, children? Scoot across while I have the car stopped. I don't stand there looking at me. Come on, scoot. Look, sunshine, there's honest Harold. Well, the antsy twins. Hello, Templeton Sunshine. Harold, you shouldn't stand out in the middle of the street like that. You'll get hit. Well, I've been out here 15 minutes. I haven't been hit yet. What are you doing? Trying to collect your insurance because you lost your job. What? Honeybody, he's our friend. Yeah, man. Do you think you'll collect enough money to marry Evie? No, girls, you want a long home, Debbie. Besides you're holding up traffic. Scoot across. I've got to let this hot rod by. Goodbye, cute kids. All right, you and that hot rod and proceed with caution. I nearly collected my insurance at that. Just a moment, please. Let the children across. Hello, Joey. All right, mister, and thank you for waiting. I kind of like this work. Maybe I missed my calling. I guess I'm just a frustrated policeman. Getting quiet here, though. Imagine all the classes have been dismissed. Seems to be the last of the kitties. Can I cross now, Constable? That's a bigger one than I thought it was going to be. I think I need a whistle. Well, if you wait till that new third grade teacher walks by, I'll whistle for you. The fucker there was. Oh, I never have to. Everybody else does. Anyway, the children have all gone home, and I think I'll go, too. Oh, now, wait a minute, Harold. I just got here. Why don't you just stick around a while? You know, show me your stuff. Oh, no, no, I'm all finished here. Well, there may be another kid or two around playing behind the schoolhouse. I don't think so, Doc. Well, besides, it's just about the time that Mrs. Carruthers drives Stanley Peabody up to the house to make his daily report to the old man. Well, yes, it is nearly four o'clock, and they do it every day. Well, if I was you, I'd stick around and let Stanley see you donating your services to the town like this. Why, it'll make him mighty ashamed. I doubt that. Would buy-gones be buy-gones? Well, you stick to that attitude, and it won't be long before you're going bye-bye. Hey, who's that upstart in that station wagon? It looks like Mrs. Carruthers' car. Yeah, she's traveling pretty fast. Yeah, too fast. Look at that child in that cowboy suit. Where did he come from? Say, he's going to run across the street. You can't see on a car that big hat he's wearing. Little boy, don't run off there on that street. Oop, he stumbled and fell. Oop, stop, stop that car.  Oh, brother, that was close. Is that you, Mr. Hem? Eh, yes, Mrs. Carruthers. Is the child all right? Yeah, he's okay. Look at him squeak through those bushes. Hem, what are you doing standing out here in the middle of the street? What does it look like, Stanley? I've been directing traffic. Yeah, somebody's got to do it. Oh, Mr. Hem, how can I ever thank you? You've kept me from hitting that youngster. Well, that's why I was here. This is a dangerous spot. There should be policemen on these corners to act as crossing guards. You're so right, Mr. Hem. Something should be done immediately. Mr. Hem, why don't you campaign for it on your radio program? The women of this town would back you to the hilt. Well, I wanted to, Mrs. Carruthers, but I don't have a radio program. You certainly do. It's a favorite of mine. I heard you only yesterday. That was my last one. Stanley fired me. What's this, Stanley? Now, Annie, I just take orders from Mr. Carruthers. Well, Mr. Carruthers takes orders from me.  I have? Yes, but it may not be for long. It won't? For a long time now, we've needed an honest man in Melrose Springs, one who is interested in our city and our children. When the women voters of Melrose Springs meet tomorrow, I'm going to submit your name for mayor. Me, mayor? Sinatra, here is your boy, man. I thought you were going to support me. We support you anyway. But Mrs. Carruthers, you really think I'm qualified? I don't think I want to be mayor. Don't argue with me, young man. You're as good as elected.  Right, Annie. Oh, goodbye. Bye, Mrs. Carruthers. Well, isn't she sweet? Well, that turned out slick, didn't it? Doc, it couldn't have been planned better. Yep. What'd you say? You can tell little Billy to come out from behind those bushes now. Shucks. We thought that little hop along Cassidy's suit was a perfect disguise. Well, I've been thinking nobody but a jockey could take a fall like that, roll over, and come up on his feet running. I'm real upset with both of you. That wasn't honest, fellas. No, that's politics. Or you know it. Now, wait a minute, fellas. Honesty. I'll handicap him for first place. Even with all that weight he carries. He's going to be hard to handle. Honest boy, though. Me, Ray? Well... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good night, voters. Good job, fellas. The new Harold Perry show, Honest Harold. The supporting players included Sharon Douglas, Odin Sillay, Norma Jean-Nelson, Ann Whitfield, Jimmy Og, Lois Corbett, Jane Morgan, and features Gloria Holiday as Gloria and Joseph Kearns as Old Doc Yak Yak. Norman Macdonald directed and the music was composed and conducted by Jack Meakin. William Danch contributed additional dialogue to Mr. Perry's original script. CBS, the column be broadcasted.


So is this showing up even really okay? Can you even hear me? Three people are here. Someone let me know if I'm even even audible see No comments yet. This might just be too bad signal Not sure. All right, let me just give it a minute Hmm, let's see All right, I'm gonna presume that since no one's saying anything. I'm getting terrible signal in is not working here All right, hello Oh, this signal was okay, so okay, here's my question.  All right When I was out on the boat it was too fuzzy wasn't it? All right, we're just we're just gonna do this in here Wanted to do this out on the boat because you know obvious reasons because I'm talking about the boat and But I think the signal may not have been good enough. Okay, so first Someone is gonna say But Jamie, I thought that was your last live. What happened? No On Sunday was my last my last Sunday talking live This is a building live My Sunday talking lives I'm moving over to to Jamie talks channel as long as I get a thousand subscribers Because I need to get a thousand subscribers on that channel to start doing my water jug blubbing So I have to get a thousand subscribers on that channel to start doing lives there And then I'll do all the talking lives there, but today I'm doing a building thing I'm not I'm not actually building anything right at this moment, but I have some building planning going on It's on the shark slicer Which I was trying to do this on but I think the the signal probably I mean I only had one bar on the signal and I Was trying to ask if anyone Could see okay, and I got no response so I'm presuming I was not coming through clear at all so Let me go get a picture of the shark slicer because that'll be good enough. Although it's right up. Oh, you know what? I'm gonna hold. I'm gonna hold this Reverse the camera for a second. We're gonna look out the window. Oh There's a pretty good view of it Let me just hold it steady for long enough that you Know they can focus So there's the shark slicer and up here is where I'm gonna put the roof part and Well, I have a bunch of well back there is the pedals that I was putting and All right, let me just reverse the camera again. Oh, there's an ant on my 813 subs on the other channel right now great So if I get up to a thousand I can start doing the the sunday talking lives on there The sunday sermons or whatever so Right now I'm talking about the shark slicer because this is this is building channel. We gotta talk about building stuff and I was There's some stuff I need to to buy for the shark slicer in to to complete the full upgrades And When I order things here stuff, man, my shirt is so dirty. Anyway, it doesn't matter When I order things here stuff comes on a container roughly monthly Monthly ish So before the next container leaves the united states to come here I want to get a few things on it so that You know in a few weeks or whatever one of the container gets here.  You can't come in here. Although you're short enough. You won't show up Okay, so here's here's the shark slicer new plan right and I've shown this before I just got the old roof off the shark slicer, which was a massive feat I have to say but I got it off all in one piece and I moved it off the boat and over to the hill and then my friend came over this morning and we got it up The hill and over to where the lumber mill is and the old boat roof is now going to be a lumber mill roof But I'll get to that in some videos. Anyway, so I'm building the new roof for the shark slicer and I have all those parts here and you know, I've already made most of the You know, I've made the arched I've made these arches That will you know go across And hold up the roof pieces and I have the sheet metal to go across. Yeah, I can I have all the stuff for the roof but what I don't have yet is and I just looked on my My amazon wishlist because I I just use my amazon wishlist as like my shopping cart for a couple reasons one Because other people can see it. So if I want to you know Ask people. Hey, is this the good thing to get then they can actually go and look at it and see what I see What I have lined up and they can tell me if it's if it's something good or if there's something better Which is what I'm about to ask you guys Um, and then also, you know, occasionally someone buys me one of the things out there, which is amazing Someone I was just looking at it and someone sent me A charge controller. So I don't have to I don't have to buy that now, which is amazing. Thank you You want to put on your romper? You're gonna have to ask your big sister to help you There's a super cute two-year-old right here asking to put on a romper Okay, so what do I need? Okay, someone sent me charge controller that was on my amazon wishlist, which is beautiful. Thank you And uh, that's one of the that's really cool because that's one of the uh Not the wants it's one of the needs. It's one of the necessary things for the upgrade another necessary thing is Oh, right Some sort of speed controller and I have it in my head that I'm going to build this weird caveman style speed controller with 448 volt like water heater things And uh I think I I'm pretty sure I did the calculation and they're they're like the right wattage and Voltage that they'll work On my 24 volt thing and have the correct amount of resistance to actually be useful speed control So I need I need to order for those But if anyone has a if anyone has a better idea or if you have better calculations or maybe some experience With uh, I don't I don't know no one's going to have experience with this because no one does this crazy stuff But if anyone out there has done Uh, like a like a one or two horsepower motor speed control Using just like resistors as the speed control Please let me know and let me know if you have a Something that's better than what I have uh on it's on my amazon wishlist It's like these four 48 volt heaters and I think I think they're good You know normally when people do speed controllers They'll have like some fancy electronic things, but I really want to do a caveman thing that'll be You know basically indestructible Sorry, there is a bug And then So I I need to get those on the container And then the other thing That I really want to get on the container That's kind and yeah, I definitely want to get this Use arduino you can build an h bridge from scratch, but I don't want to see I don't want to build an electronic thing. That's the thing I want to build something that's not Electronics because I do actually have an electronic speed control, but the problem is You know when when electronics die, it's you can't fix it and they just leave you stranded, you know Um, so if I if I have some fancy computerized speed control Um, and it breaks when I'm out in the middle of water somewhere I I'm just Paddling home, you know But if I make a caveman system where it's got a few different like giant resistors, which are just like heating elements Because that's basically what a heating element is.   I'm not going to further comment on that Anyway, okay, so I want to get four of those heaters unless someone gives me a A better option. I'm I'm I'm going to order all this stuff within the next few days Like by I don't know by the weekend or something um another thing I really want to get is a battery and If you go on my amazon wish list, it's a 24 volt lithium battery and um The one the one I picked there is is from this company called red odo and the reason I picked them is because I somehow convinced them to send me one for free. So I have one of those batteries coming And I want I'm going to buy a second one because One of those will kind of like barely be enough. But if I have two of them I could like do a trip to town in the dark Like and not worry that I'm going to run out of electricity Um, so yeah, I want to order another one of those batteries. Although again, if anyone has any experience with like big 24 volt lithium iron phosphate batteries the one I'm the one I put there that I'm going to get is a 24 volt 100 amp hour lithium iron phosphate battery And uh, that's the same one that they're sending. So I'll just you know, I get one for free, but I don't have to buy the other one um And the way I get that for free is you know, I I schmoozed them a lot and told them well, I'm gonna make an amazing video about your battery and people will love it And you know, I guess I was convincing enough to get them to send me one. Um, so I have to have to make a good video So Propered up their battery. Hopefully it works I I I don't like to do that kind of stuff very often because I've had companies Send me stuff in the past that was not good And then I'm just like I want to do I can't lie So like one time a company sent me the solar panel and it melted the first time I used it and I'm just like Mr. Landfill says do what you got to do. Yeah, I mean to get this stuff going I will do what I got to do So I'm going to give some some advertising for the I mean, it's a $650 battery And they're sending it to me for free. So I'm happy to you know, give them give them some props Oh, mr. Landfill says ridoto rocks. So have you used them before? um, yeah, they they had good reviews on on amazon and everything and I've been talking with their marketing person, I guess and she seems very nice So I'm going to buy a second one of those batteries and that's I guess the charge controller the the four heaters and the battery is is really the the kind of like Not absolutely necessary, but that's like the the minimum stuff. I I definitely want to get This stuff I'd really like to also get which so I'm probably going to end up ordering this stuff But I'm gonna have to check my bank account, you know one is an inverter and On my on my wish list. There's a there's a 500 watt What's that company? That company they have They have really good reviews. They everything is blue. I don't know. It's it's on my amazon wish list There's a an inverter from from a company that's supposed to be really good And I can't remember I'm blanking on their name right now Um But I think I'm going to get that and then two seats I've never had this kind of luxury on any of my boats before, you know, I've always kind of made my own Peace is it is a eg4? No Um, wait, hold on tell me. Let me check a couple messages here. Dude at market close FedEx is reporting earnings I I'm not sure why that's important to me jaymo schmaymo Did you think about a pulley system when moving the shark slicer? Think about a pulley system when moving the shark slicer Um, are you talking about the roof because the boat itself floats? I can move it like with my pinky Uh But maybe you're talking about the roof Um with the roof we just I mean I just kind of hulk carried it out of there and wrestled it And then my friend and I he got in the front and I got them back and we just lifted it and carried it up the hill Uh, if we couldn't lift it we would have done something else, but whatever Um, it's Installed in a friend's barn been working great. Oh, okay. This is mr. Landfall talking about radoto You installed a radoto battery in a friend's barn and it's been working great. Okay, so I should stick with them Although I mean it kind of I'm kind of committed now that they're sending me a battery and I'm gonna you know Put it on a video Rocket jet on propane. No, we use 12 volt because so many products for camping is 12 volts. That is true The only reason I'm not doing 12 volts Is because you know, I've got like thousand watt motors 1200 watt motors And 12 volts is it's a lot of amperage So I need really fat wires and a lot of heat So I went with 24 volts to at least, you know cut the amperage in half So I won't need such huge wires and you know, theoretically a higher voltage is better. However Uh, all my stuff here is on 24 volts like my house and all the boats And I like to keep it all the same voltage and 24 24 is kind of a good medium between, you know, 12 and 48 Because you can still find a lot of accessories that are 24 volts But it gets harder when you get up from that Okay, mr. Landfill Says reneg, renergy. Are you talking about renergy? That's The charge controller I picked was a renergy charge controller and they're they're supposed to be pretty good You should invent your style of manual speed controller Yes, that's what I'm doing. I'm inventing my style of manual speed controller I mean the the speed controller I'm doing is basically What you would do on like a little kid's toy with like, you know, tiny voltages and tiny amounts of power And you just slap some resistors in there and you're like, ah, that's fine for the speed control But I'm just going to do it on a big scale just because it's super simple and uh Yeah, I mean it should it should work fine using these, um heating elements So anyway, what it was The other thing I think I'm going to get is is two seats and on my The two I picked are these like yellow lawn tractor seats So, you know, they can be outside and they looked real real squishy like they'd be they'd be pretty pretty comfortable for one's bum And I've never had that that level of luxury on any of my boats. I always would just make my own chairs um, they're my the chairs I make are are pretty good, but like This will be like custom made not a custom made a factory made whatever. They're like 80 dollar chairs, which Means I might not get them because that'll be like 160 dollars for two of these chairs It's kind of a lot So I might end up making them or maybe I'll just Maybe I'll just wait on those and make this spot for them and just make some temporary wood thing Until my butt starts getting too numb and then order. I don't know But um, yeah, so that's that's all the stuff. I'm Victron. Oh, yeah, mr. Landfill Victron Is the is the company of the inverter that I that I think I'm gonna get right Hold on. What are you guys saying here dryers instead of energy waste? Wait uh Renegi makes one dryers two. Is that dryers? What are you talking about? That's a that's a um Auto correct, isn't it instead of energy wasting resistors? Have you considered switching the motors or batteries in step combinations of series and parallel circuits? That gets really complicated really fast and In terms of energy wasting from the speed control of the resistors 99 of the time I'm going to be running at full speed because my boat's not that fast It's only like a one one and a half horsepower motor So I'm just going to be going full speed all the time The only reason I want speed control is so that I don't Hard start the motor, you know, if you just go from stop to full power on a motor It's like until the motor starts moving. You're basically short circuiting the battery. It's hard on the battery It's hard on the motor. So it's it's better to you know slowly rev up the motor and I mean slowly in terms of you know electronic Time, I mean it could speed up over a second or two and be fine So if I have like if I have two or three speed controls I can get the motor Motor going at the low speed then a little faster and then before I you know hit it into full speed So I'll only be wasting a bit of energy Just basically when I'm turning the motor on and then occasionally I'll have I'll I'll be like parking or something or doing something where I have some kind of slow Maneuvers going on which is is going to be almost better. So I'm not worried about the energy waste from the resistors Like they're not they're not even going to be used very often Driars how much has the sea risen since you've been there is it noticeable The ocean rise has actually been noticeable. I'd say since we've been here A few I don't know five or ten centimeters, but I'm not totally sure you want another banana Well, I gotta get a banana for this kid Oh, and they're right there. Okay.  Yeah, so it seems like the sea has One of my kids is climbing the ship mass that holds up my third floor These kids are little monkeys.  Okay, what you're saying earlier renegie makes inverters too Have him test it. Okay. Wait, you cannot come over here. You can get a banana.  They're only like wild animals Um, okay, not all my kids are naked two of them are Rich solar charge controllers are the same as renegie, but with beefier hardware rich solar charge controllers Can I Hey, does anyone have a pencil? Where's where's a pencil? Hey a little baby. Can you get me a pencil? Yeah, the two-year-old will totally do it Rich solar charge controllers. All right Oh, great. I show up late and we're already talking about motors and controllers and I miss the good stuff Well, this is this is oh matt's awesome stuff. Yeah, we had a funny conversation recently. Um Yeah, this is this is a building video I'm not actually building, but I'm I'm doing some doing some planning for for building And as I was saying at the beginning I'm not doing anymore, you know, just like straight up talking videos on this channel anymore Those are all going over to To jay me talks. So this sunday if as long as I have a thousand subscribers on jay me talks That's where I'm going to do that The you know the sunday talking video anyway 10 centimeters sound 10 centimeters sounds like a lot so I'd say yeah, I mean somewhere between five and 10 centimeters that the ocean has gone up, but that's over a decade so Half a centimeter to a centimeter per year, but I'm not even I've measured it so Yeah, I don't know but it does seem to have gone up I love dc electricity So interesting you should use a plume the water system as your conductor with water hammers Oh insane. Oh, I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about Hold on I need a rich rich solar. What was it? Rich solar charge controllers Are these going to be expensive man this pencil squeaks. Oh, it's like shock board um Is this a live fireside chat? Yeah, I might have to start doing my sunday lives in the evening That's a classic dude mic was saying by a by a big fire big campfire so Yeah, I guess that's what I'm that's where I am right now with the shark slicer In terms of things I need to order before the next container comes If anyone has any Any input any any advice on things I should get other than what's on my amazon wish list right now Um, please feel free to let me know and I'll check the comments on this video Otherwise, I'm probably going to order that stuff. I don't know this weekend or something Um, oh I'm not sure I can justify $80 for for bum comfort yet Why why are why are chairs so expensive? Well, I mean this is supposed to be real questions squishy and comfortable and be able to handle being outdoors So I guess it's a valuable thing Renny Renny. Oh What will the top speed of the shark slicer be top speed of the shark slicer? Six knots maybe I mean it'll be like a kind of like a sailboat Maybe maybe faster than that I don't know six six knots ish somewhere around there Oh my camera froze. Hold on. Let me just do the camera trick to turn around Come on come on camera trick All right Back to moving Renegy created by students to be good and cheap rich made by same people But beef your hardware both cheap really. All right. Well, that's good to know So rich solar is supposed to be It's supposed to be like Renegy, but but but more More resilient hardware Oh, did I freeze again? What's going on?  I don't know what jrp 2023 means Slow mo can take bigger wires. Okay. I don't know what you guys talking about now. Um, oh come on camera stop freezing All right, this might be my tablet telling me to shut up Um So, yeah, I think I'm going to order that stuff At least definitely the battery And the heaters and someone someone already sent me the charge controller, which is amazing. Thank you. Thank you so much for that Um, yeah, if I just get the battery in heaters, I should be able to I should be able to afford that Okay I'm gonna get back to work and everyone have an excellent day And Feel free wait the input hardware is bigger quality is good I used it on a mobile solar rickshaw. Oh cool build here in kawai inspired by you, of course Thanks been watching you for years. You inspired so many projects. Thank you. Oh, that's cool oatmeal creams or fudge rounds I I don't know what that means when buying For you from amazon list. How do we get your shipping address? So the shipping address Like if if someone sends me something off my amazon wishlist the shipping address Is supposed to just like it's supposed to be on there already although a couple weeks ago Someone had a problem with that and I asked amazon and they're like, oh, yeah We're having a problem with the shipping Addresses and I'm like, oh come on man. I presume they would have fixed it by now But if anyone's trying to send me something which would be amazing And amazon is just they haven't fixed their shipping address thing yet Just send me a message and I'll like send me an email my emails down here, right the adventure builder movie at gmail.com that's that's just become my normal email now Um, and I'll I'll give you the address. I have the address. It's supposed to be on there But I don't know they've been amazon's been having weird Some kind of weird issue lately So it is supposed to be there um Awesome, so thanks. I'm over there. Oh, yeah Um, hopefully I can get a thousand subscribers by sunday so that when I do my next just just talking talking video Not necessarily about building stuff Uh, I can do that on on sunday on my my jamie talks video. I'm not doing anymore. Just just just talking videos here Only talking about building stuff or actually building stuff. I'm sending you good vibes. Don't need a shipping address. Well, thank you Thank you, dude. Mike. Okay. I'm gonna get out of here. I'm gonna get to work Everyone else have an excellent and productive Day morning night wherever you are whatever's going on. All right, let's see how we can turn this thing off All right, are you sure? Wait, okay Oh Yes


Dobrodoviso, da se njih ima. Ovo ječen, da so tudi izvajno. Prejsem zvon, da so se predstavili inpakovati vsega vsega vsega vsega integracije na vsega vsega vsega vsega vsega grafovat. Vsega vsega gdjeva je, Kaj je Alessia Migini, vsi uvijet za Universtvo vsega vsega pijednje in Italia. Vsega vsega grafa po vsega iz zelo, da sem je oddaj, kar se je odpočen, da so vsega vsega vsega načo, at a more general level, the increasing integration, economic integration between Africa and other developing countries, this kind of so-called South-South cooperation was already bringing some impact on Africa and the host economies. Then we tried to figure out what was based on poor data availability for the moment, what was one channel, at least at the macro level that we could examine, and then we moved our research question to one of the main bottlenecks to African development as has been outlined during this morning plenary by Ben Ndulu, which is basically the failure of many African countries to upgrade their export sector and to move towards this process of structural transformation, which is pretty much in need to go faster, at least in economic growth. To do these African countries has been outlined that should profit, should take advantage from rising external flows, much of which are now coming also from non-traditional sources, which are basically, as we know, there is much evidence on the BRICS countries investing and providing other forms of external flows to Africa on a larger scale, but also other less known cases of some interest in this analysis. Basically, what I'm going to present today is preliminary results from this paper. This is the structure of the presentation. I will just try to go quite fast over the first two points, which is basically the theoretical background of the paper to move fastly to the design of the model and the empirical analysis and discuss the result moving to some preliminary conclusions. The framework for our paper is basically this literature, which is based on the old idea that trade is an engine of economic growth for developing countries and that country specialization, that economic growth is not neutral to the country specialization basically. Since then, many much literature has been published on the idea that in order to grow faster, to grow more, developing countries need to undertake a process of structural transformation, either at the broader level, moving from agriculture to manufacturing in particular, but also within manufacturing structural transformation, moving so from low-tech, labor-intensive kind of production to higher, medium and higher technology once. More recent, this kind of literature has been as evolved towards more sophisticated measure of a country export performance, so we have indeed the export sophistication index that has been published created by Hausmann and colleagues, which basically show that what you export matters just to paraphrasi paper by Denis Rodrik, which show basically the country with a more sophisticated export structure, are likely to grow more than others, or yet more sophisticated this product space, which was produced by Dalgo and colleagues, which basically map the structure of the economies from different countries in the world and put the kind of specialization at either the center or the periphery of the product space, affirming that the countries whose productive structures are the center of the product space so where the linkages between different kind of productions are more dense, the likelihood to grow faster are higher than for countries like many Africans, and then I will go, which export few products which are at the periphery of the product space and actually the natural resources. All these literature is basically built on the basis that, as I told at the beginning, these export sophistication, diversification and upgrading in general contributes to economic development in a variety of ways. However, all the papers that have tried to approach this issue with respect to Africa have noticed that African countries are kind of stuck in a sort of low diversification and low upgrading trap. Either at different level of disaggregation these are different kind of studies. So basically the more pessimistic say that it's very difficult for African countries based on what is the current economic structure to move farther in their export upgrading. I never say that indeed it's possible and that the increasing interaction with other developing countries whose production structures are closer in terms of technology to those of African economies could indeed contribute to help African countries to escape these sort of new traps, basically. Indeed theoretical level in particular at the endogenous growth theory has much emphasized in the past and also now that external flows in the form of trade and foreign direct investment in particular are sources of knowledge and competencies, especially when they flow from more developed to less developed countries, which can on the one hand in the case of trade get easier access to inputs and machineries and have the opportunity to imitate the new technologies coming from third countries and on the other entering global supply chain or local supply chains can increase the possibility to have incremental innovation since the production process when moves to low wage settings becomes standardized to the country specific conditions, basically. This is theoretical literature. Another point that has been emphasized by this literature on the transfer of technology and competencies to trade is that the source of the trade flows, the import flows, the export flows, matters in determining the likely impact that this can have on us country development. So, basically, even if at the more theoretical level, Greenaway and Miller in 1990 outlined that the lower is the technology gap, the better should be the opportunity to get spillovers from importing from other countries. Evident so far says that it's indeed North-South rather than South-South trade flows that matter the most in terms of spillover effect, but the paper by Schiff & Wang in 2006 does not take into account the rise, the tremendous rise of South-South trade flows that happens in the last 5, 10 years. On the other hand, the other important and overstudied probably a channel of technology to developing countries is foreign direct investment, a large literature which indeed emphasize the developmental impact of foreign direct investment, including among the others on the productive performance of the host economies or the local economies, mostly because, generally, FTI brings new technologies, ideas and the capacities, again, to imitate foreign producers on the one hand and on the other hand, foreign multinationals may, themselves, engage in the production of new and more sophisticated goods that are then re-exported. Also, in this case, recent emphasis is made on the fact that South-South FTI, driven by a smaller technology gap, as emphasized by Gelb and by Lipsi and Seaholm in 2011, can probably contribute more to the export upgrading of developing countries, especially if in cases like those that we know well from originating from China and other big emerging economies, these investments are also accompanied by the construction of the improvements in infrastructures, for instance. So, what we do in this paper is basically to estimate the impact of external flows, which are basically divided on whether they come from northern countries, which are basically the high-income OECD countries or from southern countries, which are all the rest of the trading and investor partners of African economies. We do this on the capacity to upgrade the export structure and we measure this upgrade towards two different indicators, the first is an export diversification index at the extensive margin, which is calculated as an inverse of the FINDAL index, based on a database which collects information at the product level at six-digit, which is then re-aggregated at the sectoral level, at the two-digit level of the easy classification. This is done to match our data on foreign direct investment, which are available at the sectoral level, but only up to the two-digit classification. Just a note of caution about these FTI data. The FTI data in particular comes from the FTI market's database, which records product level information and Greenfield FTI only. The only concern of this database, which allows to measure investment at the sectoral level, is that capital flows are badly recorded and many of them are estimated. So in order to avoid mispecification, rather than using the total flows at the sectoral level, we use the number of investments originating from the different sources at any couple of African exporters, sector, and year. The other measure of export upgrading is common measure in this studies focusing on export sophistication, which is the unit value of export, which is computed as a weighted average of export flows at the six-digit level, with the ways being the market share that every African country has towards the partner country. At the moment, we are basically using common specification to both measures, which makes export upgrading being dependent on a series of different variables, including the per capita GDP, the exchange rate, real exchange rate, the investment over GDP, inflation, the share of natural resources over total exports, terms of trade, political stability from the world governance indicators, variable measuring whether a country is or not landlocked, and then our variables of interest, which are total imports, which is further divided into imports from the north and imports from the south, and the total FTI, which is further developed as FTI from the north and FTI from the south. Our basic interest is understanding what are the differences between the divisions of the last two variables. In order to do this, we adopt three different approaches for our main specification, where we measure the impact of the external flows on the export diversification index. We adopt system GMM estimator based on Araliano Bond. Since we, based on the literature, we consider export diversification as a function among the others of its level. So to reduce the concern of the so-called dynamic panel bias and other concern of endogeneity of independent variables, independent variables, we run GMM estimator. In order to get more inside information on how this relation, the pattern of the relation goes, we also employ quantil regression analysis. I will just, then we will go more in details and show you the results. And for the model of export unit values, we estimate panel fixed effect estimators with country sector fixed effect. These are just the summary of the main results, excluding our variables of interest. We find that export diversification of African economies depends on their lagged levels, but we find that this dependency is less relevant than in other studies and this could be due to at the larger level of disaggregation, but we find also that the dependency is stronger in the primary sector. We find, as expected, that more developed countries have export structure more diversified, that a depreciation making the export more convenient helps firm diversify their export, especially in the manufacturing sector. Again, in the manufacturing sector we find that domestic investments discourage diversification because probably they are not targeted to the industrial sector, that political stability matter and more stable context favor export diversification, while, as expected, countries with high dependence on the export of natural resources are less able to diversify, especially within the manufacturing sector. This is the main output of the paper. The first results I have just shortly outlined in the previous slide. I would like to focus now on our main results. As you can see, basically we don't really find very much significance in the coefficients of our variables of interest. Basically we find that importing from the south increases export diversification in all sectors and more specifically in the manufacturing the same happens for FTI from the north and nothing happens from FTI from the south. Then we ask whether this relation holds also when we look more specifically into the manufacturing sector. Then in using the manufacturing sector as a benchmark we basically reclassified the manufacturing sector according to the level of technology of the goods which are produced and find that for low-tech industries we find a strong and significant positive impact on exports diversification from either imports from other southern economies and FTI from other southern economies. Similarly, we find that when we create small groups according to the similarity of the production process we find that FTI from the south seem to foster export diversification also in a stronger way in resource-based and labor-intensive sectors, such as the manufacturing and the processing of agricultural products, this agrifood production we were talking also this morning and interestingly also in the cluster including textiles, aparel and later products, sorry. On the other end, importing from the south seems to be more beneficial to expand the number of products within more medium-high-tech sectors such as the machinery and equipment and motor vehicles and transport equipment. Investment from the north on the other end as well as importing from the north seems to help more diversification within the processing of natural resource sector. I told you, we look at quantile regression analysis because we would like to see whether the relation holds at all the stages of export diversification or whether countries which are at the top of the export diversification ladder basically performs better or not respect to the effect of the external flows. As you can see, what we noticed very short is that the last two figures at the bottom, FTI from OECD which is the north and non-OECD which is the south have a stronger impact on countries at the top of the distribution ladder whereas imports seem to affect more countries which are at the bottom meaning that imports help countries to upgrade for new products while FTI seems to help more countries to upgrade when at least some production structure some previous starting of diversification process exist. I just close discussing just the last slide I skipped the one on export that we find that there is indeed an impact which is strongly dependent on the kind of flow coming weather trade of FTI from the origin of the partner country for the index considered for export upgrading and also along the diversification ladder basically we showed that the progress recorded in economies in the last few years could also be in terms for instance of FTI does not depend only from the foreign ownership of firms but the nationality of the owners can also contribute more or less as we saw in strategic sectors to increasing export upgrading and productivity in African countries.


Key issues in nuclear science and non-proliferation were on the international agenda this week, as representatives from over 140 countries came together for the IAEA's annual meeting. In his opening address, the Director General spoke of the nuclear safeguards work that was carried out this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic. We were not expecting to have to inspect hundreds of nuclear facilities around the world, in a world that was closed down, where planes could not land and we could not take off to get there, to make sure that nuclear material is not diverted to forbidden uses. But we did it. The General Conference usually hosts thousands of participants and around 70 side events. But this year it was pared down to comply with the pandemic safety restrictions. Delegates voted on important resolutions to further strengthen the IAEA's work in nuclear science and technology, safety, security, safeguards, and technical cooperation. All 30-plus side events were virtual or hybrid, with agency experts preparing videos, recording speeches, and giving virtual tours of IAEA laboratories. One virtual event celebrated 10 years of the Nuclear Law Institute, which trains legal experts from around the world on drafting nuclear-related legislation, and another discussed combating nuclear security threats nationally, regionally, and globally. The main side event was the two-day scientific forum, which focused on innovative nuclear power to help transition into clean energy. In addition, a new initiative was launched to strengthen support to countries in the accounting and control of their nuclear material, while facilitating the work of nuclear verification by the IAEA. Participants also discussed major IAEA support to the COVID-19 response and ways to counter future zoonotic pandemics through the agency's Zodiac initiative. This is the IAEA of 2020, this is the IAEA of the future, an IAEA which is present at every important societal, global challenge where it mandate allows it to be.