From around the globe, it's theCUBE, presenting Innovation for Good, brought to you by Onshape. Hello everyone and welcome to Innovation for Good, a program hosted by theCUBE and brought to you by Onshape, which is a PTC company. My name is Dave Vellante and I'm coming to you from our studios outside of Boston. I'll be directing the conversations today. It's a very exciting, all-live program. We're going to look at how product innovation has evolved and where it's going and how engineers, entrepreneurs and educators are applying cutting edge product development techniques and technology to change our world. You know, the pandemic has of course, profoundly impacted society and altered how individuals and organizations are going to be thinking about and approaching the coming decade. Leading technologists, engineers, product developers and educators have responded to the new challenges that we're facing from creating life-saving products to helping students learn from home to how to apply the latest product development techniques and solve the world's hardest problems. And in this program, you'll hear from some of the world's leading experts and practitioners on how product development and continuous innovation has evolved, how it's being applied to positively affect society and importantly where it's going in the coming decade. So let's get started with our first session, fueling tech for good. And with me is John Herschdick, who is the president of the Sufferers of the Service Division of PTC, which acquired Onshape just over a year ago, where John was the CEO and co-founder. And Dana Grayson is here. She's the co-founder and general partner at Construct Capital, a new venture capital firm. Folks, welcome to the program. Thanks so much for coming on. Great to be here, Dave. Thanks for having me. You're very welcome, Dana. John, let's get into it. First, a belated congratulations on the acquisition of Onshape. That was an awesome seven year journey for your company. Tell our audience a little bit about the story of Onshape. But take us back to day zero. Why did you and your co-founders start Onshape? Well, I actually start before Onshape. And like, Dave, I've been in this business for almost 40 years, the business of building software tools for product developers. And I had been part of some previous products in the industry and companies that had been in their era, big changes in this market. And about a little before founding Onshape, we started to see the problems product development teams were having with the traditional tools of that era years ago. And we saw the opportunity presented by Cloud Web and Mobile Technology. And we said, hey, we could use Cloud Web and Mobile to solve the problems of product developers, make their businesses run better, but we'd have to build an entirely new system and entirely new company to do it. And that's what Onshape's about. Well, so notwithstanding the challenges of COVID and the difficulties this year, how's the first year been as a division of PTC for you guys? How's business? Anything you can share with us? Yeah, our first year at PTC has been awesome. It's been, you know, when you get acquired, Dave, you never, you know, you have great optimism, but you never know what life will really be like. It's sort of like getting married or something, you know, until you're really doing it, you don't know. And so I'm happy to say that one year into our acquisition at PTC, Onshape is thriving, it's worked out better than I could have imagined a year ago, along all ways. I mean, sales are up in Q4. Our new sales rate grew 80% versus, excuse me, our fiscal Q4, Q3 in the calendar year, it grew 80% compared to the year before. Our educational use is skyrocketing with around 400% growth, most recently year to year. I have students and teachers in COVID and we've launched a major cloud platform using the core of Onshape technology called Atlas, so just tons of exciting things going on at PTC. That's awesome, but thank you for sharing some of those metrics.  You mentioned, you know, we founded SOLIDWORKS, co-founded SOLIDWORKS, actually founded SOLIDWORKS. You had a great exit in the late 90s, but what I really appreciate is, you know, you're an entrepreneur, you've got a passion for the babies that you help birth. You stayed with SOLID systems for a number of years, the company that acquired SOLIDWORKS well over a decade.  As I say, you're very understated for somebody who was so accomplished, so thank you. Well, that's kind of you, but I tend to always keep my eye more on what's ahead, you know, what's next then. And, you know, I look back, sure to enjoy it and learn from it about what I can put to work, making new memories, making new successes. I love it. Okay, let's bring Dana into the conversation. Hello, Dana. You look, you were a fairly early investor in Onshape when you were with NEA. And I think it was a series B, but it was very right close after the A-rays and you were and still are a big believer in industrial transformation. So take this back. What did you see about Onshape back then that excited you? Thanks, thanks for that. Yeah, I was lucky to be an early investor in Onshape. You know, the things that actually attracted me to Onshape were largely around John and the team there really setting out to do something as John says humbly, something totally new, but really building off of their background was a large part of it. But, you know, I was really intrigued by the design collaboration side of the product. I would say that's frankly what originally attracted me to what kept me in the room, you know, in terms of the industrial world was seeing just if you start with collaboration around design, what that does to the overall industrial product lifecycle, accelerating manufacturing, just modernizing manufacturing, just starting with design. So I'm really thankful to the Onshape guys because it was one of the first investments I made that turned me on to the whole sector. And wow, just such a great pleasure to work with with John and the whole team there and now see what they're doing inside the PTC. And you just launched Construct Capital this year, right in the middle of a pandemic, and which is awesome, I love it, and you're focused on early stage investing. Maybe tell us a little bit about Construct Capital, what your investment thesis is, and what are the big waves that you're hoping to ride? Sure, at Construct, it is literally lifting out of NEA what I was doing there. After Onshape, I went on to investing companies such as Desktop Metal and Tulip to name a couple of them, Form Labs is another one, in and around the manufacturing space. But our thesis at Construct is broader than just manufacturing and industrial. It really incorporates all of what we'd call foundational industries that have yet to be fully tech-enabled or digitized. Manufacturing is a big piece of it. Supply chain, logistics, transportation, and mobility are other big pieces of it. And together, they really drive half of the GDP in the US and have been very under-invested and frankly haven't attracted really great founders like John in droves. And I think that's going to change. We're seeing entrepreneurs coming out of the tech world orthogonally into these industries and then bringing them back into the tech world, which is something that needs to happen. So John and team were certainly early pioneers. And I think, frankly, obviously voting with my feet at the next set of really strong companies are going to come out of this space over the next decade. I think it was a huge opportunity to digitize these sort of traditionally non-digital organizations. But Dana, you're focused, I think it's accurate to say you're focused on even more early stage investing now. And I want to understand why you feel it's important to be early. I mean, it's obviously riskier and rewardier, but what do you look for in companies and founders like John? You know, I think there are different styles of investing all the way up to public market investing. I've always been an early stage investor, so I like to work with founders and teams when they're just starting out. I happen to also think that we're just really early in the whole digital transformation of this world. John and team have been back from solid works, et cetera, around this space for a long time. But again, the downstream impact of what they're doing really changes the whole industry. And so we're pretty early in digitally transforming that market. So that's another reason why I want to invest early now because I do really firmly believe that the next set of strong companies and strong returns for my own investors will be in these spaces. You know, what I look for in founders are people that really see the world a different way and sometimes some people think of founders or entrepreneurs as being very risk seeking. If you ask John probably and other successful entrepreneurs, they would call themselves sort of risk averse because by the time they start the company, they really have isolated all the risk out of it and think that they have given their expertise or what they're seeing, they're just so compelled to go change something. So I look for that type of attitude, experience. As you can also tell from John, he's fairly humble. So humility and just focus is also really important. That those are, that's a lot of it, frankly. Just the founder. And John, you've got such a rich history in this space. And I wonder if you could sort of connect the dots over time. I mean, when you look back, what were the major forces that you saw in the market in the early days, particularly early days of Onshape? And how has that evolved? And what are you seeing today? Well, I think I touched on it earlier. Actually, could I just reflect on what Dana said about risk taking for just a quick one? And say throughout my life from Blackjack to starting SOLIDWORKS to Onshape, it's about taking calculated risks. Yes, you try to eliminate the risks as much as you can. But I always say, I don't mind taking a risk that I'm aware of and I've calculated through as best I can. I don't like taking risks that I don't know I'm taking. That's really bothersome. You like to bet on sure things as much as you can. Well, sure things are at least where you feel you've done the research and you see them and you know they're there. And you keep that in mind in the room. And I think that's great. And Dana did so much for us. Dana, I want to thank you again for all that you did at every step of the way from where we started to your journey with us ended formally but continues informally. Now, back to you, Dave, I think question about the opportunity and how it's shaped up. Well, I think I touched on it earlier when I said it's about helping product developers. You know, our customers are the people who build the future of manufactured goods. Anything you think of that would be manufactured in a factory, you know, the chair you're sitting in, machine that made your coffee, you know, the computer you're using, the trucks that drive by on the street, all the COVID product research, the equipment being used to make vaccines, all that stuff is designed by someone. And our job is to give them the tools to do it better. And I could see the problems that those product developers had that were slowing them down with using the computing systems of the time. When we built SolidWorks, that was almost 30 years ago. And people don't realize that it was in the early 90s and you know, we did the best we could for the early 90s but what we didn't anticipate the world of today. And so people were having problems with just installing the systems. Dave, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to install these systems. You need to spec up a special Windows computer, you know, and make sure you've got all the memory and graphics you need. And you can get any of that set up. You need to make sure the device drivers are right.  I'm not making this up. They're still around. You may not even know what those are.  And it only runs on Windows. You want a second user to use it. They need a copy. They need a code. Are they on the same version? It's a nightmare. The teams change. You know, you just say, well, get everyone on the software. Well, who's everyone?  People come on and off the team. The other problem was the data stored in files. Thousands of files. This isn't like a spreadsheet or word processor where there's one file to pass around. These are thousands of files to make one, even a simple product. People were tearing their hair out. John, what do we do? I've got copies everywhere. I don't know where the latest version is. We tried like, you know, locking people out so that only one person can change it at a time that works against speed. It works against innovation. We saw what was happening with cloud web and mobile. So what's happened in the years since is every one of the forces that product developers experience, the need for speed, the need for innovation, the need to be more efficient with their people and their capital resources, every one of those trends have been amplified since we started Onshape by a lot of forces in the world and COVID has amplified all those. The need for agility and remote work, COVID has amplified all that at the same time, the acceptance of cloud.  Now they're saying to me, you know, increasingly, how would you ever even have done this without the cloud? How do you make SOLIDWORKS work without the cloud? How would that even happen? Well, you know, once people understand what Onshape's about and we're the only full SaaS solution, software as a service, full SaaS solution in our industry. So what's happened in those years? Same problems we saw earlier, but turn up the gain, they're bigger problems. And with cloud, we've seen skepticism of years ago turn into acceptance and now even embracement in the COVID driven new normal. Yeah, so a lot of friction in the previous environment. So cloud, obviously a huge factor. And I guess Dana, John could see it coming, you know, in the early days of SOLIDWORKS with Salesforce, which is kind of the first major independent SaaS player. Well, I guess that was late 90s. So it was post SOLIDWORKS, but pre Onshape and then Workday was, you know, pre Onshape in the mid 2000s and but, you know, the bet was on the SaaS model was right for Crick-Cad and product development, you know, which maybe at the time wasn't a no brainer or maybe it was, I don't know. But Dana, is there anything that you would invest in today that's not cloud-based? That's a great question. I mean, I think we still see things all the time in the manufacturing world that are not cloud-based.  So the cloud is still a little bit scary sometimes. And I think hybrid cloud is a real thing for those or on-premise solutions in some cases is still a real thing. What we're more focused on and despite whether it's on-premise or hybrid or SaaS and cloud is a frictionless go-to-market model in the companies we invest in. So SaaS and cloud really make that easy to adopt for new users, you know, sign up, start using a product. But whether it's hosted in the cloud and whether it's SaaS, you can still distribute buying power. And I would, I'm just encouraging customers in the customer world and the more industrial environment to entrust some of their lower level engineers with more budget discretionary spending so they can try more products and unlock innovation. Right, and the unit economics are so compelling.  What was the strategic fit? Yeah, well, Dave, I want to be clear. I didn't exit anything really, you know. I love it. I don't like that term exit. I mean, Dana had to exit as a shareholder. And so it's not an exit for me. It's just a step in the journey. What we saw in PTC was a partner, first of all, that shared our vision from the top down at PTC, Jim Heppelman, the CEO. He had a great vision for the impact that SaaS can make based on cloud technology. And really, as Dana highlighted so much, it's not just the technology, it's how you go to market and the whole business being run and how you support and make the customer successful. So Jim shared a vision for the potential and really said, hey, come join us and we can do this bigger, better, faster. We expanded the vision really to include this Atlas platform for hosting other SaaS applications at PTC. I mean, David, the day I arrived at PTC, I met the head of the academic program. He came over to me and I said, and how many people are on your team? I thought he'd say five, 40 people on the PTC academic team. It was amazing to me. Because we were just near about 100 people when we were acquired in our total company. We didn't even have a dedicated academic team and we had a lot of students signing up, thousands and thousands. Well, now we have hundreds of thousands of students. We're approaching a million users and that shows you the power of this team that PTC had combined with our product and technology, whom get a big success for us and for the teachers and students of the world. We're doing them great tools. So many good things. We're also putting some PTC technology from other parts of PTC back into Onshape one area, a little spoiler, a little sneak peek, working on taking generative design. Dana knows all about generative design. We couldn't acquire that technology when we were a startup, just too much to do but PTC owns one of the best in the business. This frustrum technology, we're working on putting that into Onshape and our customers will be happy to see it, hopefully in the coming years sometime. Nice, great to see that two way exchange. Now you both know very well when you start a company. It's of course a very exciting time. You don't have a lot of baggage. Our customers pulling you in a lot of different directions and asking you for specials. You have this kind of clean slate, so to speak. I would think in many ways, John, despite your install base, you have a bit of that dynamic occurring today, especially driven by the forced march to digital transformation that COVID caused. So when you sit down with the team at PTC and talk strategy, you now have more global resources, you got cohort selling opportunities. What's the conversation like in terms of where you wanna take the division? Well, Dave, you actually, it sounds like we should have you coming in and talking to us about strategy because you've got the strategy down. I mean, we're doing everything he said, global expansion, we're able to reach cross-selling, we've got some excellent PTC customers that we can reach now and they're finding uses for on shape. I think the plan is to just go, go, go and grow, grow, grow. Where we're looking for this year, priorities are expand the product. I mentioned the breadth of the product with new things. PTC did recently another technology that they acquired for on shape. We did an acquisition. It was small, wasn't widely announced in an area related to interfacing with electrical CAD systems. So we're doing, we're expanding the breadth of on shape. We're going more depth in the areas we're already in. We have enormous opportunity to add more features and functions. That's in the product, go to market. You mentioned it global presence. That's something we were a little light on a year ago. Now we have a team, Dana may not even know it. We have an on shape dedicated team in Barcelona based in Barcelona, but throughout Europe we're doing multiple languages. The academic program just introduced a new product into that space that's even fueling more success and growth there. And of course, continuing to invest in customer success and this Atlas platform story I keep mentioning, we're going to soon have four other major PTC brands shipping products on our Atlas SaaS platform. And so we're really excited about that. That's good for the other PTC products. It's also good for on shape because now there's other interesting products that our on shape customers can use, take advantage of very easily using say a common login conventions about user experience they're used to invest of all their SaaS based. So that makes it easier to begin with. So that's some of the exciting things going on. I think you'll see PTC expanding our lead in SaaS based applications for this sector, for our target sectors, not just in CAD and data management, but another area of PTC is big in is augmented reality with the Vuforia product line, leader and industrial uses of AR. That's a whole nother story. We should do a whole nother show on augmented reality, but these products are amazing. You can help factory workers, people who are left out of the digital transformation sometimes who are standing in front of a machine all day. They can't be sitting like we are doing Zoom. They can wear an AR headset and our tools let them create great content. This is an area Dana's invested in in other companies. But what I wanted to note is the new releases of our authoring software for this AR content getting released this month, used through the Atlas platform, the SaaS components of Onshape for things like revision management and collaboration and workflow activity. All that, those are tools that we're able to share, leverage, we get a lot of synergy. It's just really good. It's really fun too, we're having a good time doing it. It's awesome. And then we're going to be talking to John McElaney later about Atlas and do a little deeper dive on that. Dana, what is your involvement today with Onshape? Are you looking for, which of their customers are actually adopting and they're going to disrupt their industries? Are you going to get good pipeline from that or how do you collaborate today? That sounds like a great idea. As John will tell you, I'm constantly just asking him for advice and impressions of other entrepreneurs and picking his brain on ideas. No formal relationship clearly, but continue to count John and John and other people at Onshape in the circle of experts that I rely on for their opinions. All right, so we have some questions from the crowd here. One of the questions is for the dream team, John and Dana, what's your next collective venture? I don't think we're there yet, are we? No, I just say, as Dana said, we love talking to her about, Dana, you just returned a compliment. We would try and give you advice on the deals you're looking at. And I'm sort of casually mentoring at least one of your portfolio entrepreneurs and that's been a lot of fun for me and hopefully a value to them. But also, Dana, you're an important pipeline to us in the world of some new things that are happening that we wouldn't see if you've shown us some things that you've said, what do you think of this business? And for us, it's like, wow, it's cool to see that's going on and that's what's supposed to work in an ecosystem like this. So we deeply value the ongoing relationship and no, we're not starting something new. I got a lot of work left to do with what I'm doing and really happy, but we can collaborate in this way on other ventures. I like this question too, somebody's asking, with cloud options like Onshape, will more students have STEM opportunities? So that's a great question. Are you, because of SAS and cloud, are you able to reach more students, much more cost effectively? Yeah, Dave, I'm so glad that I was asked about this because yes, and it's extremely gratifying to us. Yes, we are because of cloud, because Onshape is the only full cloud, full SAS system or industry, we're able to reach STEM education. We're able to be part of bringing STEM education to students who couldn't get it otherwise. And one of the most gratifying things to me is the emails we're getting from teachers that really, and the phone calls, where they really pour their heart out and say we're able to get to students in areas that have very limited compute resources that don't have an IT staff where they don't know what computer that the students can have at home and they probably don't even have a computer. We're talking about being able to teach STEM on a phone to have an Android phone, a low-end Android phone. You can do 3D modeling on there with Onshape. Now you can't do it in any other system but with Onshape you can do it. And so the teacher can say to the students they have to have internet access. I know there's a huge community that doesn't even have internet access and we're not able unfortunately to help that. But if you have internet and you have even an Android phone we can enable the educator to teach STEM. And so we have case after case of saving a STEM program or expanding it into the students that need it most is the ones we're helping here. So really excited about that. And we're also able to let in addition to the run on whatever computing devices they have we also offer them the tools they need for remote teaching with a much richer experience. Could you teach solid works remotely? Well, maybe if the student ran it and had a Windows workstation, big high-end workstation, maybe you could but it would be like the difference between collaborating with Onshape and collaborating with SOLIDWORKS like the difference between a Zoom video call and talking on a landline phone. It's a much richer experience and that's what you need in STEM. Teaching STEM is hard. So yeah, we're super, super excited about bringing STEM to more students because of Cloud and SAS. And we're talking about innovation for good and then the discussion John, you just had, it really, there could be a whole another vector here we could discuss on diversity. And I want to end with just pointing out so Dana, your new firm, it's a woman led firm, two women leaders, you know, going for it. So that's awesome to see. So really, yeah, thumbs up on that. Yeah, congratulations on getting that off the ground. Thank you, thank you. Okay, so thanks you guys really appreciate it. It was great discussion. I learned a lot and I'm sure the audience did as well. In a moment, we're going to talk with on-shape customers to see how they're applying tech for good and some of the products that they're building. So keep it right there. I'm Dave Vellante. 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So flying mounts, when do you get them? Because if you pre-ordered the deluxe edition, you're probably wondering where your festival mount is. If you just pre-ordered in general, you're probably wondering where your onyx hippogriff is. If you just brought the game in normal, you're probably wondering when you unlock the hippogriff. Well today I will explain all. So for the people who pre-ordered the game, this will explain when and how you get to use that onyx hippogriff. With deluxe edition owners, this video will explain how and when you get to use the festival mount. And for everybody else, this video explains when you get and how you get the hippogriff mount. Okay so now that I have your attention guys, if you do enjoy the video or even a like, really helps me out and if you like what you see and want to stay up to date with everything Hogwarts Legacy, make sure you subscribe and turn those notifications on. Okay so the deluxe edition owners, you have access to the dark arts set, which includes the dark arts armor, the dark arts battle arena and the festival mount. Now you can apply the armor or gear within your gear tab by simply hovering above those said gear slots on xbox plus x and on playstation plus square and then select those dark arts cosmetic sets. Simple. Now the dark arts battle arena is here on your map, you can go here whenever you like. But what about those mounts? Well this is how you unlock them all depending on the version you own. But there's a flying mount here for everybody. Okay so really late on in the main story quest line, you will eventually get to a quest called the high keep. This mission is literally around the 30th main quest mission. So it is really late on. The mission sees you working with Nae to help a hippogriff. The hippogriff we will have met a lot earlier on in a quest called beast class. And while guys it's as simple as completing this quest for you to unlock those mounts. So yes storm through the high keep quest and you will unlock these mounts. So simply head into your gear tab, select the mounts you want to use. Obviously the festival is exclusive to the dark arts back owners, the unix hippogriff is exclusive to people who pre-ordered the game and while the standard hippogriff is here for everybody. Well each are equally amazing in what they do so everyone gets a flying mount. And while guys it really is as simple as that, I don't expect to see you on your broom from this moment forward. But yes for those wondering about flying tames, flying mounts, the unix hippogriff, the hippogriff itself, and the dark arts back owners and the festival mount. This is when you get them, unlock them and are able to use them in game. Guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you like what you see and want to see more, hug what's legacy, definitely subscribe and post in daily guides, unlike anybody else. If you enjoyed this video leaving a like really helps me out and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one.


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Hey y'all it's Tammy with Colored Valley Cooks. Today I'm using our new Amelon Brazer and I'm going to braise this delicious chuck roast. This is a recipe where your roast cooks low and slow. It will be fork tender and absolutely delicious. Okay one of the first things I do if I've got some freeze dried or dried spices. We're going to put some parsley in here and basil. By doing this you enhance the flavors of your dried spices. It just makes some taste better. So it's worth a little effort and time just to warm them up a minute. Okay we're just going to put these in here and we're gonna this is already preheated down. We're going to turn it down on low and then we're going to season our roast and get it in here to sear and brown. Alright now we're going to salt and pepper this really good. Add our salt and pepper and then we're going to get a roasted garlic powder and this is my favorite. I'm not a fan of garlic salt but I sure love this roasted garlic powder and you can you normally get it in the these bodega seeds or things. Sometimes they're typically in the international section if they're not in your section of regular spices. Alright so we've got all that on there and now we're going to take some flour and put flour on this side of the roast and then we'll flip it and do the same thing on the other side. So put your salt, your pepper. Don't double dip in your flour. Go ahead. We'll dip our sides into the flour in a minute. But since I've already got my hand dirty I'm going to go ahead and flip this over and we're going to season the other side. I'm going to go wash my hands and get the flour on the sides of the roast because when we brown it we'll rotate it in the pod. Alright I'm going to turn my fan on so that it's not so smoky because this is going to smoke a little bit and we're going to turn the fan on. Put some olive oil in the pan. This is the aniline razor 5.5 quart. It's a nonstick surface. Here we go. We're gonna cook this until it's nice and toasty brown. Okay it already smells really good. Let's check out this piece. It's nice and brown. We're gonna flip it. This is my first time cooking in this new pan. It's doing a beautiful job. Look at that pretty roast. Beautiful. Doing a great job. Once we cook this of course we'll add more vegetables for the roast when we just got about an hour left to cook. But to cook the roast you're going to need a salsa celery, a carrot, and go ahead and peel it. You're going to need a clove of garlic, the herbs we've already browned, and some chicken stock. I've actually got bone broth so we'll be using that today. It'll just taste even better. This brazer is in a video that explains everything about why I chose the brazer's idea to recommend to you the viewer to purchase. So you can just go watch that video and find out all about this brazer and find about it does have a lifetime warranty. It has a lot of perks so check out the video. I'll link the video if you look above. You'll see the eye for information and you will see where you can click to watch that video. Okay like I said this roast is not stiff so I'm gonna turn it and try to brown it a little bit. We'll just see how we do. I'm just gonna have to hold it but we can do that can't we?  It's doing really good in this pan. Now we're gonna put in a stalk of celery and some garlic. Now we're gonna add our chicken stock. Now we're gonna add water till it's covered just over to the top. So remember when you're picking out a roast that you don't want it to get too tall. You know score in which pan you get as to what height it is but you need to be able to close it and put water over it. Okay that looks really good. We're closing this up. We're gonna set our timer for two hours. Okay I almost forgot a very important ingredient. That's why it's so important to lay out all of your ingredients in case you miss one like I just did. Worcestershire sauce and luckily I did have it sitting out so you'd want about five shakes. That's important too. Delicious. Okay we'll see y'all in a few minutes. Well a couple of hours really. We're gonna see if we need to flip this roast over. We may or may not and we're gonna continue to cook it. We won't put the vegetables in until the last hour. See y'all soon. All right this has been in here two hours. The timer went off. I'm gonna show you how it looks in two hours and I am gonna go ahead and turn it. We've still got to cook it another couple of hours so in an hour I'll check it and see how soft the meat is. Just it's still not it's not fork tender yet so we'll check it in about an hour. So I'm gonna get the carrots ready and the potatoes and I always peel my carrots and you are supposed to peel carrots. You can go do it and read about it if you want to. So I like to use a potato filler this kind for my carrots. All right a roast it's time to put the veggies in our roast so we're gonna rinse off our potatoes and with red potatoes I don't peel them all away. I wash them and then I cut off the the parts that don't look so hot. So this roast has been cooking in here all day and it's made me so hungry. So I'll be looking forward to getting to eat it tonight even if I am by myself and this roast is so big that if the kids come home this weekend we'll all get to eat it. It's Monday if you want to know how long I keep something like that in the refrigerator up to seven days. But after seven days I'll get rid of it. All right so we're I've got little knots on these potatoes that just you know look hairy or just aren't all that pretty. I cut them off the brown part maybe the part that was the earliest I don't know and then I'll cut them in hunks like so. Make sure I get all the dirty stuff out of this before I pull them back in here. At my carrots I always just leave the end pretty much intact because it's skinny if it's skinny and I split it it needs to be pretty skinny. Then at the at the biggest part I split it again. I had to put an onion in there and I didn't realize it until I went to go get my vegetables so we're gonna add a little onion powder to it right quick too. Okay what I like to do when I have braised something like this is I like to take the roast out of the pot and it's falling apart tender already y'all very much so. Now if I weren't gonna add vegetables to it I would actually just render it.  If I were rendering it it would turn sticky but I'm not I'm not really gonna render it today. Gosh it's just falling apart done it's just gonna be delicious so what we're gonna do now is we're gonna strain the broth right quick. So what I'm gonna do first is I'm gonna put my vegetables over the top of this beef then I'm gonna strain the broth through the strainer and it's hot so make sure you got stuffing your sink. So I'm catching all that as we're gonna transfer it back into our pot so I'm gonna sit it down in the sink in case it splatters and I have to put something down in the sink because it's hot. We're gonna put it back in here. This time we're gonna put it on the stove top without a lid on it and we're gonna cook these until they're fork tender. Okay I just totally forgot to put an onion in it today. I mean it had a lot of really good stuff in it but because I've already strained my vegetables I don't want to put pieces of onion in here because I want my gravy to be real pretty. So I'm just going to put a little onion powder in it. Onion powder does a lot. It's delicious. As long as you get a good brand don't get a cheap brand of onion powder. This is an organic granulated onion from Sam's Club and it's just really good and if you like a lot of onion put about a teaspoon and a half in there. And I've got a thicken it for a nice gravy instead of making biscuits tonight. I'm actually just gonna put some dumplings in it and not cut out dumplings but the nice big puffy kind. So for drop dumplings you don't really need your sifter or anything like that. If you have biscuit mix you can use it. I have southern biscuit mix. It's formula L. It is a lot like a homemade biscuit. The matter of fact a lot of the restaurants use it that make homemade biscuits. I'm gonna show it to you. So it has these shortening pieces in it and some are butter and some are not and it just makes the most delicious biscuits. So we're gonna use it because it's a shortcut. So it's simple all we've got to do is put some in the bowl. This is gonna be really easy. Now instead of using buttermilk because it does tend to make them want to spread apart we're going to use the broth from our roast and the dumplings. So you want to be boiling like this. I'm gonna reach in and get some broth and we're gonna put it in our dumplings because they gotta be dropped. They gotta be able to be dropped. Now just a little bit more. That should do it. That's about how you want them. You want them to be soft but kind of thick at the same time. So you can drop them. Okay I'm gonna turn it down a little bit and here's our dough. You can pick your vegetables up I guess and put them up on top of your meat so that you have room for your dumplings down in the water. You'll be able to get them in about three right there. We've got a lot of vegetables in this roast. All right we're gonna get the lid on it and turn it down on low or low simmer and then we'll open it up in just a second. All right we're gonna go ahead and pepper it. You can add a little parsley for color if you want to. It's not required of course. You can put a little on there and I'm gonna keep these covered and let those dumplings cook all the way through. So you're gonna keep it covered at least 15 to 20 minutes before you serve it. So just let it simmer on the lowest setting. All right I waited about 20 minutes so we're gonna take the lid off of it and serve it up. I took a short cut and didn't even make biscuits. I've been bad, bad. One pot meal, two dumplings. We're gonna get us some juice. Yummy. Now this is the way I like to eat a roast. This is the way mama cooked a roast till it was falling apart done. The meat is nice and tender.  The broth made a nice gravy with the dumplings in there. Let's take a bite of dumpling. Dumplings are nice and done in the middle. You want to make sure and let them in there about 20 minutes. Yum. Yum yum. So delicious. This is so good. I hope the kids come home this weekend and enjoy this with me. Absolutely delicious. Y'all have a good night and thanks for watching. Call it Ballad Cooks. Where we cook, like mama did. Bye y'all. Love ya.


It's that time of year again. Today is Ubuntu release day, and today marks a very special event because this marks the release of Ubuntu 2204, which of course is a LTS release of Ubuntu, meaning it's a long term support release. The LTS versions of Ubuntu only come out every two years, so this is a big event, and I would say probably more than 90% of Ubuntu desktop users use Ubuntu LTS releases. So I'm very excited today to take a look at the new version 2204 codenamed Jammy Jellyfish. So I have spun up a virtual machine here, and I'm going to go ahead and run through a quick installation of Ubuntu 2204, and the very first screen you get in the installer of course is language, English is the default, and that's okay for me, so I'll click continue. And then English US for the keyboard layout is selected, that is what I use, so I'll click continue. And then update and other software, what apps would you like to install to start with? I want the normal installation, or do I want the minimal installation? The minimal installation will come with a web browser and a few basic system utilities, but it won't come with all the extra goodies like games and office software and stuff like that. I'm going to do the normal installation because I want to see everything that gets installed with the normal installation, and then download updates while installing Ubuntu. I'm going to leave that ticked on, it's ticked on by default. All third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi drivers and a multimedia format, that's going to be your multimedia codecs, you're going to need to turn that on. I know it's ticked off by default, but to have a proper desktop experience you really need to check that box. And then click continue, and then we get to the installation type, it wants to know what we're going to do with the disk. Do we want to erase the entire disk and give the whole disk to Ubuntu, and that's fine in this virtual machine, or do I want to choose something else? Now something else would be important if you needed to manually partition your drives or if you were dual-booting alongside another operating system, maybe you want to go ahead and do the partitioning yourself. In my case, since there's only one virtual hard drive in this virtual machine, I'm going to choose the first option and just let Ubuntu have the whole drive. And then I'm going to click install now. And then we get a summary of the partition scheme that it's going to create. Everything looks good, I'm going to click continue. Then it wants to know about the time zone, it looks like it has correctly chosen the central time zone in the US for me, so I'll click continue on that. And then we need to create our username. My username on this computer will be DT, we need to choose a host name for the computer. I'll call this Ubuntu VRT, just so it has a descriptive name in case I ever SSH into this machine, I know exactly which machine I'm actually working on. And then we need to create a strong and complicated password for our DT user. Then we need to confirm that strong and complicated password. And then do we want to log in automatically? No, the reason I created a password is to require my password to log in for privacy reasons, right? You don't want just anybody to be able to get into your computer without a password. So I'm going to leave that, which is the default, require my password to log in. Then we have a box, use active directory. I don't use active directory, I really don't know anything about it. So I'm going to leave that ticked off by default as well. Then I'm going to click continue. And then this portion of the installation usually takes about 10 minutes on my hardware. You can watch the little slideshow here. If you click the arrows, you can read a little bit about Ubuntu, if you don't know too much about it. Other than that, I'll be back in about 10 minutes once the installation has completed. And the installation has completed. That installation took about five or six minutes. Now I could click continue testing if I still want to play around in the live environment here, or I could restart now and actually get into our properly installed Ubuntu 2204. And that's what I'm going to do now. I'm going to choose restart now. I like the new redesigned Ubuntu logo, and that's really nice. So let's go ahead and log in to Genome here. By the way, that's going to be the new Genome 42 desktop. So our user, of course, is DT, and we created a strong and complicated password for DT. And that is interesting. So either I forgot my strong and complicated password, or it's just not going to let me in. I think what the problem here is that I'm in a virtual machine, and let me move my head. If I go down here to the little cog wheel and choose settings, you see you have two choices, Ubuntu and Ubuntu on Xorg. By default, Ubuntu 2204 with the Genome desktop environment is going to use Wayland as a display server. And I bet the Wayland display server is causing me an issue here in this VM. So let me switch over to Xorg and try to log in. And now I get a black screen, but it does let me into the desktop environment. It just takes a second to launch the desktop environment, especially the very first time you log in. Let me go ahead and change the display settings. So on real hardware, that's probably not an issue. Wayland is probably going to be OK for you. But in this VM, the video drivers I have set up for this virtual machine, I guess they just can't handle Wayland all that well. So let me get a proper 1920 by 1080 screen resolution. For those of you wondering about the video driver, I was using in the virtual machine, I was using the VRT IO video driver. So if you're trying this out inside a virtual machine and you're wondering why you can't log into that Wayland session, maybe either use the Xorg session like I did, or maybe change video drivers. I could have tried the QXL video driver or one of the other various video drivers available inside VRT Manager. Now, of course, when you log in the very first time, you get this little welcome screen that will connect your online accounts, your Ubuntu single sign-on account if you have one, your Google account, your NextCloud, your Microsoft account. I don't have any of this stuff while I do have a NextCloud, but I'm not going to sign into it on this video. So I'm going to skip all of this. And the next screen, help improve Ubuntu. Ubuntu can report information that helps developers improve it. So basically, do you want to send reports to Limitry back to Canonical to help them improve Ubuntu? So crash reports, basically. And I typically would leave this ticked on as yes, send system info to Canonical. If for some reason you don't want to do that, you could tick it off and with no here. But I think it's important to actually let developers of software have crash reports because it does help them improve the product. So I'll leave that ticked on. The next screen is privacy. Do we want to allow certain applications to determine our geographical location? It's ticked off by default. I will leave that ticked off by default. I don't want to share any kind of geolocation information with anyone. So you're ready to go. You can use software to install apps like this stuff. So especially a lot of this, some of it's free and open source software, a lot of it's proprietary software that's not typically found in the Debian repositories, the Ubuntu repositories with the app package manager. So some of this stuff like a Spotify and Discord and Slack, these are proprietary applications. I'm assuming they would install via snap packages. If I wanted to install them, I'm going to go ahead and decline that for now. I'm going to click Done. I've got an icon out of place here. This icon was moved when I resized the screen resolution. That's why it's in the center of the screen because we had that really small screen resolution. And then when I blew it up to 1920 by 1080, the icon was out of place. One thing I will say is that might be the best looking Ubuntu wallpaper I've seen in many, many years. That jellyfish, the abstract art jellyfish, is a sexy wallpaper. Now that might be the best Ubuntu wallpaper ever, other than the fact that Ubuntu 804, an LTS from many, many years ago, Ubuntu 804, Hardy Heron had the bird, the Heron, and that was back in the old brown and orange wallpaper days. And that bird looked amazing. If you guys have never seen the Ubuntu Hardy Heron wallpaper, check that out. But this jammy jellyfish is a close second, I think. So let me go ahead and click on the File Manager. One thing to notice about this particular edition of Ubuntu compared to the previous releases is we have a light theme by default. And by light theme, I mean it's actually a really light theme, right? The previous version of the Yaru theme in the last version of Ubuntu I took a look at had a mixed theme, meaning it was a light theme, meaning the window itself was light, but the title bar, this information up here, had a dark bar. And I kind of like the mixed theme, I'll be honest. I like that a little bit better than the all light theme, but either one, I mean, honestly, it looks good either way. Now we can change to a fully dark theme that is available if I go down here to the Applications menu and look for Settings, and I go to Appearance. And now we have two choices, Light and Dark for Style, and if we choose Dark, it will change. And now when I open the File Manager here, you can see now we have this fully dark theme, and that is a sexy dark theme. I mean, really everything about Ubuntu here in the last few releases is a very clean, polished look. This icon set they use is very, very nice. I love the dark Yaru GTK theme as well. And back to the Settings menu, you can change the accent colors. By default, they're using orange. But if I wanted to, I could change the accent colors to green or blue or whatever. If I want to change icon sets and wallpapers to blue or green, I can change the accents to match that as well. But because we're using purplish icons and actually the icons, I just noticed that the icons, they have accent colors. Well, I'm assuming it's an entirely different icon set based on each color when I choose. I'm not exactly sure how they're accomplishing all of that. But that is really slick. This pink Aubergine color here. Yeah, that is, that's not bad. Like I am really impressed with how well themed this version of Ubuntu is. This again, it may be one of the best looking Ubuntu's that I've seen in many years. Taking a look at the top panel here, the top bar of the GNOME shell. We have our activities overview here in the center. Of course, we have our calendar and notifications. And some of this has been tweaked a little bit. I was reading the release announcement and the GNOME team has made a lot of this stuff a little bit more compact, a little smaller because I remember this calendar used to be quite a bit bigger. When you would click on the calendar, it would take up like two thirds of the screen, right? Then they've made it slightly smaller. I believe they've also made some of the system tray widgets over here, slightly smaller as well. And in the power off session menu here, if I go to power off, we actually have a restore option now, which has not been a thing for very long. So for many years, I don't know why this was the case. GNOME, for whatever reason, refused to put a restart option in the menu here. Even though that's one of the most common things that Linux users do, especially Linux users that tweak their system a lot, many times you'll change something on your system that requires a restart. And before what you would have to do is you would have to go into the menu system, hit the power off log out menu and log out to get back into the login manager where you typically sign in. And in the login manager, you had an option to restart. But why not just put that button there? You know, why make me jump through a couple of hoops to restart the system? Another thing that was annoying to many users for a long time was not having the ability to put icons on the desktop. Now Ubuntu had tweaked this for a while. Now they've had the ability to actually put icons on the GNOME desktop, but for a while you could not actually drag and drop icons from the file manager. For example, let me get into the Nautilus file manager if I wanted to put something on the desktop, maybe the downloads folder, maybe drag that there. Now that actually works. That was not a thing before Ubuntu 22.04. Now I don't actually want my, if I go into the desktop folder, you'll see I actually moved downloads to desktop because that's what this is representing here. I actually do not want the desktop folder in that. These are clickable by the way. So now this path is fully clickable. Yeah, let me move that back. And you see when I do a copy and paste here, so I cut downloads from the desktop directory and pasted it back in the home directory. And you can see that was represented here on the desktop as well. It took it off the desktop. One of the more controversial things about this release of Ubuntu is Firefox is a snap package. So let me click Firefox. That actually launched rather quickly here. And let me make that full screen. So the speed wasn't too bad, which I don't think I had a problem with the speed last time. Last time I tried Firefox as a snap, it was just a buggy. There were things that broke. I can't remember what the problem was on the last Ubuntu release, but I had serious issues with that version of Firefox as a snap. But I don't think the speed was the issue and because everything did launch correctly. I go through the menu system, everything. Everything looks like it's functioning. I add a new tab. It all looks like it's working. Of course, a lot of those bugs from the last release of Ubuntu have probably been worked out by now because that's the point of the interim releases those are really kind of like beta tests for the LTS release. So I'm assuming they've got all the kinks worked out of the Firefox as a snap. Now, if you didn't want Firefox as a snap, one of the, again, controversial things about this is I can't open a terminal and do a sudo apt install Firefox because there's no Debian package available for Firefox through the apt package manager in Ubuntu. So if you didn't want the snap version of Firefox, you would have to go manually grab a Debian package from Mozilla. I'm assuming they offer one. I'm sure they do. They offer packages for many different package managers out there. Or if you prefer, you could try Firefox as a flat pack. You could try Firefox as an app image. For me, though, as long as the snap package works, I would just keep using the snap package plus the snap pack auto updates, which is important for a web browser because for security reasons, you want your web browser to always be up to date. And you don't have to worry about that with snaps because they auto update. Now, let me get back into the settings menu. So let me open the out launcher, go to settings or just type settings here. And let me get back into appearance here. We have desktop icons. Of course, I could turn the desktop icons off. I have mentioned on previous videos, I typically just turn the desktop icons off. I don't need to see them. We have various doc settings. And some of these were here in previous releases. Some of these weren't. We have the auto hide the doc, which is turned off by default, but I don't mind it auto hiding. But I'll leave it turned off for now. We have panel mode, which I don't believe was here before. Panel mode is turned on, meaning take up the entire length of the screen here. So if it's on the side, take up the entire height of the screen. But if I turn that off, now it becomes more of a doc like your traditional GNOME dash to doc extension. So that could be cool for some people that prefer the doc look. I actually prefer the panel look because if you have something full screen, it looks kind of weird to have these gaps here. Nothing's really gonna go in those gaps anyway. So just for aesthetic reasons, I would probably just keep that full screen. Now I don't need a 48 pixel size icon. I would drastically reduce that to something like about 30 pixels, especially if I add a whole bunch of stuff to my panel. Now we could also change the orientation or the position on the screen right now. It's to the left, which honestly makes a lot of sense. But if you prefer, you could put it on the bottom. Now I don't like doing bottom panels and bottom docs because honestly, all of your buttons and your controls for your windows, all the programs you use, everything happens at the top and typically the top left. This is where your mouse is all the time. So it doesn't make sense for most of your stuff to be doing stuff with the mouse up here and then having to come down here and click. And then go back to the top where everything else is happening. And then come back down here. You know, it's just a lot of mouse travel.  So actually for, it's not just for aesthetics that Canonical and the Ubuntu team puts that dock on the left and the top left. It's just because that makes a lot of sense. You're already right here anyway. So your mouse barely has to travel. Like if you have a full screen web browser, your back buttons and the URL bar and all that's right here. And then your dock is right here, right? Don't put that at the bottom. Now there, you could also put it on the right. I have no idea why anyone would ever put a dock on the right side of the screen. Let me go ahead and take a look at the applications that are installed out of the box here on Ubuntu, just quickly taking a look through the app launcher here. We have our additional drivers tool.  That's very important. You have All Riot Solitaire. That's a game, of course. We have our calendar application language support. LeanBerry Office is here. We have videos. And so that's our GNOME video player. Now that is interesting. They're not alphabetically sorted here, which I thought they were alphabetically sorted in previous versions. Oh, we can move them now. Now this was not a thing in previous versions of GNOME and previous versions of Ubuntu. So we can actually move these launchers around. That's very nice, because honestly, you probably want to put the launchers for the programs you use all the time toward the top of this menu. And maybe like on the second screen, move everything that you don't really use. And the second screen, yeah, I kind of animations are rather quick and peppy. Yeah, this looks good. We have our text editor, which of course is gEdit. Although I don't think they call it gEdit anymore. It's gEdit41.0, but the GNOME team, typically just label things text editor. Now that's why in the menu system, all you get is text editor, rather than the name of the actual program. By the way, the text editor gEdit41.0. You'll notice a mix of things here, because Ubuntu LTS, there will be some older versions of some programs. So it's GNOME 42, but not all of the GNOME suite of applications, not all of those particular programs will be on version 42. You'll see some 41s, and you may see some older stuff as well. We have the GNOME terminal here. Let's open the terminal, because we should check some stuff out. The very first thing we should check out is the kernel version. So we're gonna be on 5.15. That's very important. So if you install this, the LTS release of Ubuntu, you're not gonna get any kernel upgrades, right? So you will occasionally get security updates, a patched version of 5.15, but you will run the 5.15 series of the kernel for the next two or four years. However long you run the Ubuntu LTS, I believe the LTS versions of Ubuntu now are supported for five years. Actually, I think for some cases they have now extended the LTS support life for up to 10 years, I think for enterprise customers. That's probably much longer than most people will wanna run a LTS release. What I recommend is since the new LTS comes out every two years, April, every two years, run 2204 until April of 2024 and then upgrade to 2404, the next LTS and yada, yada, yada. So just plan on upgrading every two years. And of course, Ubuntu makes upgrading very easy. There's an upgrade tool. It'll pop up every two years, letting you know, hey, we're on a new LTS. Do you wanna upgrade? And then of course, just take the upgrade path. Now let's see how many applications are actually installed on the systems. So I'm gonna do a apt list dash dash installed. And it spits out every application that is installed line by line. And of course, these are packages that are installed with the apt package manager. Now if I take that, because every package is its own separate line, I could take that information and pipe that into WC-L. WC is the word count program. Dash L means give me a line count. So there were 1,704 lines in that output, meaning there were 1,704 packages installed on the system. Now, of course, those are packages installed with the apt package manager. What was installed as a snap? Let's do a snap list. So it looks like there are some snaps installed. So let me decrease the font size just so we can see what is installed here. And it looks like we don't really have much installed as a snap by default. I mean, we have some of the basic stuff. I mean, we have the snap de-dammon, of course. We have the core snap. We have the GNOME libraries that are needed and the core GTK themes. But really the only packages that are installed as a snap are Firefox and the Snap Store as a snap. So that people that complain that Ubuntu is forcing snaps on people really, they're really forcing Firefox on you. And that's not even Ubuntu that is making that Firefox decision. Many people are confused about this. The Ubuntu team did not take Firefox and make it a snap and take away the dead pack. That was Mozilla's decision. That was Firefox's decision. They wanted to just package it as a snap because it's auto updating and it provides them an easy way to just package it one time for Ubuntu. So again, don't throw shade on Canonical or the Ubuntu team for the Firefox decision. Again, that really wasn't their decision. That's Mozilla's decision. If you wanna complain to somebody about it, go tell the Mozilla team about it. One of the new things with this edition of Ubuntu is you will have a new screenshot application. I'm assuming that's from the GNOME upstream. If I do screenshot, yeah, take a screenshot. Yeah, you see this new GNOME screenshot utility. It's almost like Flameshot, right? With the way you can just select a region and take a selection or you can just take a picture of the whole screen or you can do a specific application so it's very Flameshot-like. I was fine with the previous version of the GNOME screenshot utility. It was rather simple, but I mean, most people just need a simple utility, but that's fine too. I actually don't mind them improving the screenshot tool a little bit. I do think Flameshot has definitely up the game as far as screenshot utilities. So I think a lot of the other screenshot applications like GNOME's screenshot tool and KDE's Spectacle and things like that, I think a lot of those applications do have a little catching up to do. One other thing that I read in the release announcements is let me open up the file manager here. I'm gonna right-click and I was gonna create a new document and I no longer right-click and create a new file. Maybe I have to go in the menu system. Oh, where do I? Oh, that just rearranges that stuff. How do I create a new document? I can create a new folder, but am I just missing something here? What are we doing? Maybe it's one of these. That is, that's a new window. What is this, a new tab? Yeah, new tab and this is a new folder.  I'm perplexed here. I'm sure this isn't a move-to decision here. This is Nautilus, why can't I right-click and create a new plain text file or at least do it from the menu? What I was gonna do is now you can actually zip and unzip from inside Nautilus, which is like a basic feature every file manager should have, but for whatever reason, Nautilus didn't have it. Let me control Alt-T. Since I can't actually create a file from the file manager, let me actually just create one here in the terminal. So I'm gonna do touch and I'm gonna do file1.txt and then I'm gonna touch file2.txt. That's just a better file manager, the terminal anyway, especially compared to Nautilus, but now if I select these, right-click on them. Now I have the option to compress and we have compression options, including zip and well, looks like the hints are cut off. That could be a VM problem, but I can actually create an archive now and there I just zipped it and if I right-click on it and extract here, you know, I'd get the files again. Actually I'd get a folder with the files in them. Back to home here. Yeah, I'm just really perplexed why I couldn't, why I had to go to the terminal to touch a new file instead of, I don't understand what GNOME is doing with their file manager. One last thing I wanna check out, let me go back to settings because the most important part of every Ubuntu release, especially the LTS releases, is the wallpaper pack. And honestly, the default wallpaper, this jammy jellyfish wallpaper is amazing. I wouldn't change it, but let's check out the others. Yeah, that's okay, it's a little minimal. And then of course you got your standard nature photography, the flower actually is really nice. That is a little garish and bright for me, more flowers. This picture here of this path through a field, actually that's a really nice wallpaper. I may have to borrow some of these wallpapers. Even though I'm not running Ubuntu, I may have to borrow their wallpaper pack. What is this here? There's some lines, very minimal though, very dark. That would look great with the light theme. This wallpaper, if I went to appearance, chose the light theme. A light theme against a dark wallpaper would look very nice, but the problem is the light theme and the dark theme. When I changed the light theme, the wallpaper changed back. Why? It's because when we were using the light theme before, we were using the jammy jellyfish wallpaper. So each light and dark mode, they have their own settings and it remembers the settings. So it remembers the background I chose for this. So I have to actually choose this or the light mode with the dark wallpaper. Now, if I go back to appearance and choose dark mode, we'll still be using this wallpaper, but I could change it. But if I go back to the light mode, it will always go back to the last wallpaper I was using with the light mode. Now, I actually think that's really neat because most of the time, the wallpapers you use with a light theme and a dark theme will be completely different. Typically, you want dark wallpapers with light themes and light wallpapers with dark themes. So I actually think that is a rather nice touch and that is thankfully a part of, I think, what the GNOME team is doing. And I think that makes a lot of sense. I'm gonna go back to the default wallpaper. And so, yeah, Ubuntu 2204, I'm really, really impressed with this. Like, I'm really blown away by, first of all, how much improvement GNOME has seen with GNOME 42, and I'm really impressed with some of the stuff that the Ubuntu team added on top of GNOME. That GTK theme, the light theme and the dark theme, that Yoru theme looks gorgeous. The icon set, changing the accent colors, how it affects the GTK theme and the icon set. That's really, really nice. That's Chef's Kiss stuff right there. Overall, I think this is a solid release. I think this is gonna be a big hit for Ubuntu. And I wanna congratulate all the developers for Ubuntu and for the GNOME team as well for all their hard work. I am, again, I was really genuinely impressed with what I saw today. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I needed to thank the producers of this episode. Devon Gabe James, Maxim, Matt Michael, Mitchell Paul Scott, Wes Allen, Armored Dragon, Chuck Commander, Ingrid, Yilkai, Dylan George Lee, Lennox Ninja, Mike Erion, Alexander, Peace, Archon, Fedora, Polytech, Riala Teetz-Fertilets, Red Prophet, Steven and Willie, these guys. They're my highest-eared patrons over on Patreon without these guys. 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I only speak a little sadly because, as every person must, I've been going through the unpleasant task of making out a will, and I think you should be informed of the fact that I'm including you in my will. Yes, Mr. Valentine, I'm leaving you the sum of $1,000. You will receive this legacy when you have caught my murderer. Ms. Alice May Edmonds, number one by a column U-square. Oh, that's the commercial district. And on the letter here there's an engraving of a white elephant. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, excuse me. No, no, I was just going to ring the bell. Is this number one by a column U-square? No, no, no. Peddlers or agents allowed, no soliciting. Oh, but we're not peddlers. I'm saving you trouble, that's all. You'll only have an iron deer thrown at you. That isn't a house, it's a booby-hat. Okay, thank you very much, goodbye. All right, go on in, but me I'll still go out. Keeper of the white elephant barker for the train seals. I'm warning you, someday I'm going to kill that woman in there. Well, what do you suppose is the matter with him? Hey, look, Angel, three stories high. Gardens. Hey, can't even hear the street in here. Right in the middle of the city. Yeah, a whole block of a house. Old fishing gigos on the woodwork. It's white, George. Painted white. All right. Guess this is it, folksy. The white elephant. No, Mr. Valentine should only be drunk at a certain temperature of warm. Oh. My brother Stephen taught me that. We much prefer to tea in the afternoon, but naturally, if you would like a feminine wafer or... No, we don't care for anything. Thanks, Ms. Edmunds. It's tea time. You'll have something. You'll join me. Genshin? All right, Miss. Look, Miss Edmunds, please. In the first place of this house. And I do wish you wouldn't stare about so. The Adamicacas are quite clean, young lady, and I crocheted them myself. I didn't mean... It has 42 rooms. Yes, 42. So I'll grant you I've closed off a number of them. But even with the ones that aren't, it's large, it's quite large, and I like it that way. It's old-fashioned, it's abrasive, and it absolutely is not the white elephant. Well, an anachronism may be in the middle of the town like that. Because the white elephant, I am afraid, is me. Ah. Yes, on my stationery. The little white figure. It's the only way I have to... to get back to my friends, to show them I know what they think of me. Your family? Oh, I know I have none. Just my brother and me all alone in the world. He's such a wonderful person. There aren't any gentlemen like him any more. But we're wealthy. But you see? Anybody who's wealthy has a family, Mr. Valentine. That man you bumped into on the way in, you're that Clarence Morley. Only a second cousin. But he called me Aunt Alice. He kisses my hand. He simpers all over himself trying to get into this house. And is for a cousin you... All right, Miss Edmund, so much for your family. What I want to know about is your murder. Last week, someone tampered with the wiring, apparently, so that I was very, nearly electrocuted. Didn't you call the police? Me, the Valentine. That would be incomprehensible to a person as young as you. But I didn't do anything. I wasn't even sure, and I...  No, no, no, please. Why should I? I've outlived my time. In many ways, I seem so indestructible. It would be rather a relief to be murdered. Here's the tea stuff, Miss. I told you I'm not much in the kitchen. That's the only service I could... All right, Jensen, all right. Now get out of here. Get back to your cottage. Go on. Gladly, Miss. Do you know something? The family I spoke of, they made me take him. But I generally won't let him in the house. For 20 years, Miss Brooks, I've done every bit of housework in this place myself. Yes, yes. All by myself. Miss Ed, the second ago you were saying... Excuse me. Stop that, will you?  I'll turn it down. Take it easy, Alice. Yeah, that's good enough, isn't it? Oh, you... Volume control. Unusual on the gramophone. Wouldn't bring more than $50, though, I don't believe. Curio, maybe. Mr. Valentine, this is Yule. I think I spoke of him. Another one of my cousins. Dear, dear... Pleasure, pleasure. Mother's side was third cousin. And did you hand off that sheriff? This chair? Oh, no, no, no, dear. Late 19th-century imitation. It is not. He is so kind, Mr. Valentine. He buys and sells water. Could be mistaken. There's a real one in the library. An antique dealer. Wouldn't you know from the beard? No, Alice. I don't want to talk business today. I don't want to. Well, I only hung around from the meeting. Look at some things. Get out, will you? Please! Get out, please! All right, all right. But you don't look well, Alice. You ought to let us come visit more often. What was the meeting he spoke of, Miss Edmund? I said, what was the... He was playing Molly Branigan again. It's a song a girl used to sing. A red-headed Irish servant girl. She went back to the old country twenty years ago. Oh, she was like a breathless sunshine. Miss Edmund, what are you trying to say? My brother and I have always been alone here since we were ten. Mr. Valentine, I am peculiar, you know. The meeting? Oh, it was the relatives, that's all. I try to act like a hered in the suppose to. But I'm terrified of them. What's the matter with you, Miss Edmund? Oh, I'm all right. They want me to get out of the house. I don't really have any money at all in the house. Valuable property. But it's mine and I want to stay here. I don't know who I am rambling for. They want to make me get out. But how can they? Miss Edmund, this brother you talk about, this Steven, can't he help? Steven's so kind. He won't hurt anything. Miss Edmund, Miss Edmund! This glass, Bruxy, the milk. It's the milk she drank right in front of us. Somebody was trying to murder her, Bruxy. It was poison. Now take it easy, Mr. Valentine. I said we can't tell you. She's all right. She's alive. And from my experience with her in the past, she has a constant... Well, Strickland wasn't a doctor. And from the smell of that milk there... Oh, undoubtedly an overdose. But I've treated her with it in the past. You've what? It's a legitimate remedy for certain conditions, you know. It was kept in the cupboard down by the butler's pantry. Okay, I'll take a look. Have you called the police? No, and I don't intend to. What? Not yet. Please, listen to me. I've known and admired Miss Edmund for a very long time. That bravado of hers is all front, you understand. She's a very shy person. What's that got to do with you? She should live, Miss Brooke. She'd probably call off the investigation herself rather than risk invasion of her privacy in the house here. No. No, it has to be done from the inside. By you, Mr. Valentine. And suppose she dies, Doctor? Well, you've met the people who would benefit, Molly and Cousin Ewell. If one of them should conceivably be a murderer, he'd have only accomplished what they're all trying to do anyway. Get her out of this house. So you don't think they testify against each other, do you? But why do they want... I get it. I get it. This property's worth a fortune, isn't it? Precisely. The white elephant. Every day that she lives, she has to borrow against taxes. So they have to get her out. Or in a few years, there won't be any fortune left for them to inherit. Yeah, here's the bottle, all right, Angel. Strict. Somebody certainly had a choice. Sleeping cotters, all the medicines right here by the bench. Yeah, wait a minute. Look at this. The ring on the counter seat from the moisture from the glass. It's just as he poured the milk and then left it for her. So anybody who happened to come in right then, golden opportunity. Just spike a drink a little... What is all this you're talking about, young man? I thought you left the house, went out. Oh, that's all the doctor's car came back. What's the matter with her? Well, he'd better tell you. But you can tell me something. Where's Miss Edmund's brother? She confused me on that. Stephen? Her brother Stephen? That brother of hers has been dead for 20 years. Dead for 20 years? Now it's time to come here. Well, Doctor, is she... No, no, she's alive. She's going to be all right. But perhaps you had better call the police. What do you mean, Doctor? I thought it would be so simple to track down just one person. That's why she's alive. A barbiturate acts against Strickland, you see. Oh, Bob, what's the name of it? You saw that stuff there in the cabinet. Sleeping powders. I'm trying to tell you why she's all right. It was in the milk, too. Agent and reagent. Poison and antidote. Yes, yes, believe it or not, the poor little white elephant is still with us because two people tried to poison her. Two people tried to murder her. 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At all these service stations, you can count on top service and quality products like RPM motor oil. And here's what they say and mean, better care of your car. And now back to tonight's adventure of George Valentine. Poison and antidote. And a little old lady who didn't particularly care whether she was killed or not, whose only desire was to be left alone in her strange old-fashioned house. At first you wondered what reason there was for her fears, but now you know the only reason she's alive is because not one but two people tried to poison her. Two negatives make a positive, and the poisons were such that they can't fill each other out. Well, if your name is George Valentine, all you know is that now you have to work twice as fast. Miss Headman, did you see anybody touch that warm milk of yours today? Oh, I forget. I don't know. It's so much more real 20 years ago. Like that brother you keep talking about, I suppose? We took care of each other.  Scramble and suffering that people call excitement. I talked about Stephen as though he were alive, didn't I? Miss Headman, perhaps we'd better not. And about her too, the Irish servant girl. Because she was the last happy thing in this house. Please listen to me. I still don't see what you're driving. She would have fitted in so beautifully. She was young too, only 19, so much younger, but it didn't make any difference.  The cousin you will know is he you. No, let it go on, Bruce. Stephen was in love. I hate her afterwards, but now I don't. Wherever she is, she's probably never eaten gas. There was a boy in the old country. She showed me the cablegram. I helped put it aboard ship that same afternoon. I begged her to stay, but she left me there. Not thinking, just happy. My brother came here, home, and went out. And I never saw him again. And that's when they all started coming. That's when the white elephant was born. The rich, sick relative alone in my house. It was more than you called the next morning. They said my brother had gone out and shot him. Shot him so far? Because the girl left him. And you haven't cared about anything since then? Uh-huh, I'm beginning to catch on now. They've handled all your affairs since then, right? Yes. And if you would talk about Stephen as though he were alive, it's only to keep yourself alive. Now they want you out of the house because it won't be long until the taxes have eaten up its value. There's a paper and a bureau. George, is the court safe? It says I'm... I'm... in court. Well, you've heard it. You've seen how she acts. That wasn't what I asked you, Mr. Morley. But what's the sensible thing? You don't just stand by and watch anybody throw money away. And there's a first mortgage already in. Who'd benefit, Mr. Morley, if she had died an hour ago? Well, I would, for one. I don't mind telling you. The police don't want to hear that, too. Now, see here. They're already running tests on the poison and the glass. Well, I didn't touch it. I was on the telephone at the time. Business downtown five or ten minutes. My office will verify this. The telephone in the hall, Mr. Morley. Yes, crazy old fangled contraption. It's the only one in this room. The door to the butler's pantry was open, George. And if you were standing in there at the telephone, you... Yes, right, Brooksy. The glass would have been right in plain sight, wouldn't it? Well, I didn't notice. I didn't even see it.    Mr. Valentine, she's been getting worse. Fussy, picky, in this preoccupation with her brother. We know all about that, Mr. Morley. We also know what her own doctor thinks about her. He's a fool, too. Old admirer of Alice's. Valentine, what would you think if you came in and found her prowling among her brother's old things? Of course it was a tragedy for her. But now, twenty years later, to find her, she's reopened that room with his nosing around and mooning over the old things. Is that what happened to you? Yes. Just yesterday. She was trying to tend it. She hadn't seen it. Just cleaning, she said. Get out, she said. Leave me alone. Do you think that a normal person acts like that? I don't know. I don't know, Mr. Morley. Why don't you tell me how she acted today at that family meeting? The meeting? Yeah. Well, you saw my reaction. She said she wouldn't ever leave this house. Not ever. And no court order could make her. And for us to stop bothering her, or she'd make us stop for stubbornness. Just insane. Just insane. Insane, my friend. Now, I finally realize little Miss Edmund has been pointing in the right direction after all. That brother, Stephen, dead twenty years. Yeah. That's how we solve it. George, this was the maid's room. Yeah, sure, Brooks. And it's been closed all this time, too, hasn't it? Stephen was in love with her. Yeah. The old-style maid's sitting room for a little red-headed Irish girl. Not very big, is it? Wait a minute. I'll get the lights. Look at the dust in the cobwebs. George, look. On the mirror. Mm-hmm. Yeah. She collected things, all right? True to type. Paper flowers, dance program, Carnival dog. And the snapshot. Don't you recognize it? What do you mean? Without that stomach and antique dealer's mustache. It's cousin Yule. Oh, yeah. A day at the beach. We knew she was the sunshine girl. Probably played the field. See, isn't there anything from Stephen? George, you see this. He was just perfect and I reward you with a rose. Won't you join my sister and me for some phonograph records in the parlor this evening? What in the name? Notes from Stephen. George, she saved them. There's nothing to give us even a hand about his death. Isn't there? Wait a minute. Brooks, you listen to this one. Today I told Alice May we should leave this house. It is gloomy. If you would only say yes to me, there is nowhere on earth we couldn't go in with blessing. You have shown us what sunshine can be. Well, she'd accepted him. But I certainly can't blame her. I'd have run to a fuddy-duddy like that. No, no, no, that's not what I meant. Brooks, see, Stephen offered to leave this house. Don't you see what- Mr. Valentine! Mr. Edmund! Yeah, but where is she? George, she must be up at the head of the stairs there. From her room. Please, light. She can't see. Mr. Valentine! It had already been two attempts on this lady's life. And now her third. It was a police matter in the first place, Valentine. Take it easy, Riley. Please, take it easy. Hello, Doctor. Oh, it's about time you got here. Team as quickly as I could. Didn't even know where the maid's quarters were. Here, I'll take her. Oh, I was... I'm all right, honey. Now, uh... Now what happened, Mr. Edmund? You ran out to the head of the stairs. You called Valentine. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, sure, you're all right. Just lie still. Look, Valentine, I said I'm taking over. Earlier today, any one of these guys could have got at that milk. What did you say, Riley? I said any one of them. The milk sat there for a good half-hour. Any one of them wouldn't have used two poisons, Lieutenant. Huh? That counteracted each other. Well, no, I grant you, but you're... Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Morley and Yule, uh... Why don't you go in the other room? You too, Doctor. Miss Brooks can take care of her, all right. Well, that's a good idea, Valentine. Sergeant, keep your eye out! Mr. Valentine, I'm trying to remember. I was frightened. I was at the head of the stairs. No, no, wait, please, Miss Edmund. Uh, Riley, what did you find out, uh, the records on Stevenstead, huh? Well, he committed suicide. Shot himself. Went out to a public place, got drunk, just like ordinary people. Yeah. He had been jilted by a red-headed girl half his age who went away and left him. But he couldn't just cry in his beer.  They don't have people like him anymore. Yes, yes, I told you what it was, Miss Valentine. Didn't I? Uh-huh. We thought your brother's death might have had something to do with all this today, but... Well, I guess we were wrong. No, it's simpler than you think, ain't you? Miss Edmund, you waited to drink the milk until I got here. I what? George? Bruxy, you just said no one person would give two poisons that worked against each other, made someone just a little sick. Well, Miss Edmund is one person who would. Yeah? What is all this? What's the name of the woman? And she's taken the medicines long enough. She would have known how they'd act. The doctor could have told her. So, Miss Edmund, you wanted me out here to see it all, didn't you? Because that family out there was going to get you out of this house and you'd sworn you'd stop them. Well, that was your idea of how to do it, wasn't it? Valentine, they don't understand. You knew that if you could cast the suspicion of murder at them, no court would ever believe them when they tried to say you were peculiar, incompetent to handle your own affairs. So, you would have won. You would have stayed on in your house. There was no reason for me to leave. But Daddy... Miss Edmund, you're quite fussy. You're meticulous. That glass of milk of yours sat handy on the counter after Johnson prepared it for half an hour. Now, the first words you said to me today were, milk should always be drunk at a certain temperature of warmth. Warm milk. Well, in half an hour it would have been cold. So why didn't you say something? Why did you drink it without noticing? Unless you were the one who doctored it yourself. What if I did? What if I did? It's my house. Why shouldn't I fight for it? It's mine, not theirs. I can go bankrupt if I want to. So... So that's all it was, huh? Tempest in the teapot. Time to start, you poor thing. It meant so much to you not to leave this place. Yeah, yeah, Ronnie. We thought the key to the whole thing was a brother. I wish I didn't have to say that maybe it is. What are you talking about? Roxine, we'd left the door to this room open. She could see us from the head of the stairs. I suppose she called out on terror and fainted and fell. Valentine, I don't care. She wasn't pushed, Riley. That was terror. It's seeing us in this room. Yes, Miss Edmond? It's an old-fashioned maid sitting room, Riley. Now, it's only a guess. It's all it can be. But I can think of a way this would all tie together. All for her brother. What's through there, Miss Edmond? That room? There is the closed-off place. And why Miss Edmond wouldn't leave this house, maybe? Why she couldn't? The memories that held her. Memories of herself. A thing she'd done 20 years ago. Okay, let's see what's behind this curtain. Good Lord. Rit. Rit here. My apron. Oh, yeah. 20 years. It's the Irish servant girl. George. I know, Bruxy. I know. The one people become hermits like that is generally a reason. She was the only one who ever told anybody she'd put the girl on the boat. Uh-huh. Including the guy she did it for, I suppose. Only when she told him it didn't do any good. He killed himself. She didn't still lost her brother. She had to stay on and on in this house. Prison of her own making. Miss Alice Mae Edmond. All kinds of loves, I guess, Bruxy, all kinds of people. The white elephant? There's an understatement. If your car hates to get going in the morning, if it drags the way it would on a sand bed and labors up hills, it may be the fault of gummy gasoline. Most raw gasoline contains impurities that form power robbing gum. The only way to get rid of the impurities is to refine them out. And Chevron Supreme is the gasoline that's super refined to prevent engine sticking gum. 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And Herb Butterfield as the doctor. The music is composed and presented by Eddie Dunsteader, your announcer, John Heaston. Listen again next week, same time, same station to let George do it. This is the Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System.


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