Suspense. Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour, a full 60 minutes of suspense. Tonight, our star, Mr. Edmund O'Brien. Our story, The Blind Spot, by Lois E.B. and John C. Fleming. A suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Leader. It sometimes happens with men and institutions who deal only in facts, formulae, and the cold logic of scientific deduction. They often underestimate or overlook the unpredictability of the human element. They may covet reason and disregard instinct and emotion. Tonight, against the background of Rogers International Research Institute, Pulse of the Nation's Opinions, we meet Eric Strange, Leland Rogers, Mona Bartlett, and Gregory Rome in a dramatic combination of logic and fear. And now, with the performance of Edmund O'Brien as Eric and with The Blind Spot, we again hope to keep you in suspense. Each of us has a blind spot, some of many. Blank walls in our minds or memory or opinion, walls which we cannot penetrate and so are held back, or because we can't or won't understand, we try to draw away from the world, run from it. Because the blind spot has made us afraid. I started writing books about this during the war, maybe you read or heard about the blind spots by Eric Strange.  I mention it simply by way of introduction, not to myself, but to fear. Yes, it was the blind spot of fear in the mind and heart of Leland Rogers that led to, well, I'm getting ahead of myself. Perhaps it's best that you meet Leland Rogers and see him as I did that day when I went to his suite in the Park Central Hotel to settle a business matter. It wasn't our first meeting, but in a way it seemed to be. Whereas I pressed the buzzer and the door opened, I found myself looking at a different Leland Rogers, a man completely changed for me by his look of sheer terror. Well, Eric Strange, Eric Strange, how do you know where to find him? Your secretary, Mr. Rogers, she said... Mona, she had no right to tell you where I... Your partner is worried about you, so is your partner, the whole staff. You know, Rogers, when you first approached me as a possible client, I was invited into your office, offered cigars, drinks... I'm sorry, Strange, come in. Thank you. Never did like to hold a conference in a hotel hallway. But there's to be no conference, understand, Strange? I thought I made it clear we can't handle the survey for you. Now, I suppose if I suggested that Rogers International Research could be sued for breach of contract, I might not be offered a chair. You have grounds for a suit, of course. Sit down. Thanks. Much better. Now, Rogers, what's it all about? Why did you really call things off? It's exactly like I told you on the phone, Eric, no mystery about it. Albert Leblanc, our European supervisor, was killed yesterday in a crash at the Borgé Airport. Hmm, too bad for the supervisor. His organization of our overseas offices was a one-man miracle. That was a mistake, of course, won't happen again. But in the meantime... The survey on my book is impossible. Quite. Well, your partner, Jim Carr, now... Yes, he doesn't agree, I know, but Carr isn't running that end of the business, Strange. He shouldn't have even been talking to you. He just happened into the office while I was with your secretary. You seem quite upset. Yes, he's always upset, but whatever he had to say means nothing. I suppose not. But he was enthused over the plans you people have. He's always enthused. However, in this case, I was myself. You know that. Yes. That's what confuses me, Rogers. You seem so anxious to establish the validity of the book's premise. I believe in that premise, Mr. Strange. I believe every word of your book blind spots. I agree that the American has the highest natural demand for freedom and guards that freedom with unequal personal responsibility for national welfare. The survey could have proved that belief. I know, I know. Or proved it to be wrong.  I understood your intention. People without freedom are happier without facts. Yes, yes, however, Mr. Strange, you're under the circumstances with my organization powerless to conduct an immediate survey. I don't see what you said. Sit down, Mr. Rogers. What?  Or better still, fix us both a drink. Because I'm not leaving. Now, see here, Strange, you're wasting your time.  I've given you a good reason. You can take your business to universal surveys or sue me for breach of contract. I don't care. I care, Rogers. I want to know who threatened you. Threatened? I should have warned you months ago. This would be a nuisance item you'd have to figure on with my survey. There have been no threats. Not at all. I think there have. I've been threatened regularly since the first edition of Blind Spots. First by radicals who call the book reactionary, then by reactionaries who suggest I'm proposing revolution. There have been no threats. No threats, Strange. It's simply that my key man LeBlanc in our foreign office is that this very moment, is alive as either one of us. What? What are you saying? What you've been saying is more important. A call came in while I was at your office. Miss Bartlett took it. It was from LeBlanc.  Yes, because it made you feel easier. It might make it easier for me to discover what kind of fear you're living with. This doesn't change anything. We're not handling the survey with or without a reason. Nothing helps your kind of fear but action, Rogers. If it's free for all, I'd like to get in. But you care to fix those drinks? Tell me about it? Strange. Were you ever so afraid? It was like leprosy.  Once, sitting on the ground during a war that sometimes seems like it didn't happen. It was a length of barbed wire in front of me, day after day, night after night. One day I tried to walk through the wire. They pulled me off and I tried again. And again. After that I had some kind of fever. Now it's your turn. I'll get the drinks. I'll need one telling you this. You might need one listening. Interesting, Rogers. All of it.  Right here. Looks harmless enough. Lots of people carry them. You just use it for memoranda? That's right. Dates, places, stray ideas I want to jot down. Certainly nothing unusual about that. But the last four pages of the book, take a look strange, read those last four pages. Just one line to a page. That's right. And not one of them seems to make any sense. Now you know why my partner, my doctor, even my secretary are beginning to guess. I don't understand. Why did you write these things? Would you say that I did write them? Hand writing's the same or a very clever imitation? Exactly. I wrote all the previous pages, those last four I didn't. Oh, perhaps you will know. Oh, no, no, no, I didn't write them and forget them. After the first two entries, I mentioned this to Dr. Whitehouse. He explained it. Said I'd had the book on my bed table and wrote it in my sleep. That would be my guess, too. And quite possible, except that after that, I left the book at the office. The other two messages I found on different afternoons during the last few days, I didn't write them. Perhaps it's the work of a practical joker. Someone else. Oh, no, strange. I have other aberrations, too. They began soon after the first message in the book, such as, I hear the telephone ring. Well, there's no one on the wire. I answered doorbells. There's no one at the door. One night, I woke with a spotlight in my face. No one was in the room. You found the third message yesterday? Yes.  Lucky, actually. How did it be for your survey to have it come out later that the head of the research organization was off his rocker? Not good, but I think. Not good. Let's leave it at that, strange. Wait a minute. This weather report clipped at the last page. You found it this way? This way. The reports is generally clear with rising temperature and the entry. It will still be gloomy when you go home. Funny. The combination mean anything to you? Yes, it means something to me.   The writer of these notes would be a superstitious person, strange. Today is the 13th. I don't make sense, do I? No, you don't. Delusions. Good night. You have no idea who the writer of the messages might be. I know who it is. He's in my office, and he has every reason to kill me. But I don't know how to identify him. If I did, I might not be afraid. Blind spots again. They're with us all, as I suppose so. Look, strange, I've told you more than I intended to. Now, get out of here, will you? You've got a lot at stake in that pole of yours. You know, maybe I figure there are things even more important than four-nation poles. People, they're troubles. People like you, Leland Rogers, a man who is once strong enough to build a great organization from nothing. Will you get out? You've got to fight, Leland, and I'll help you. There's nothing I like better. Good Lord Strange, didn't you hear me? I said, get out! Why? If I wanted a bodyguard, I'd hire one. You've done it. And for free. This is my own mess. Why do you want to get yourself into it? I don't. Never do. Look, this is strictly business. Tonight, I bodyguard for you.  I don't know what to say. You're sure you can't identify this man? The Burnham Detective Agency in New York is working on it for me. If I can break through this fog, maybe I can give them more to go on. Blindspot in your memory? Something like that. Maybe if you told me the whole story, it might show up. It might. Only I, well, it, embarrassing. It's a long story. We have a long evening on our hands. It's only 7.30. 7.30. You had to be somewhere? Oh, no, no. It looks strange. Eric, that's better. I've decided that I can trust you. Thanks. I think I'll take a shower, climb into a robe. Then I'll tell you the works. Everything, yes.  I'll wait. You went into the other room to change. I could hear him moving around. Then a few minutes later, he turned on the water and the shower. I couldn't help feeling sorry for him the way he seemed to be dodging shadows. He'd been in there about 10 minutes when the phone rang on the desk. Shall I get it, Leland? He didn't seem to hear me. I wasn't sure if he'd want me taking his calls, but I took a chance. Hello? Mr. Strange? Yes? For me? Yeah, he was called out on an appointment. Mr. Rogers is right here. He turned off the shower. The shower. All right, clerk, I'll take care of it. Leland Rogers had given me the slip. I didn't know how long he'd be, but curiosity and an unusual interest in this unusual man held me right there in his hotel suite.  That, together with a few magazines and some interesting pen sketches on the wall, kept me occupied for some two and a half hours. Then I thought I heard Rogers at the door. It wasn't locked, and I sat back waiting for him to come in. He didn't, but someone else did. A very expensive-looking young lady with ash-blonde hair the right amount of jewelry and, from the average male viewpoint, the right dress. She entered the room slowly, then acted almost as frightened as Rogers had when she caught sight of me. Oh. Good evening. Let's just say a friend of Leland Rogers. You're very strange. I've seen your picture in the papers. All right, I'm very strange. And you are? Well, I... A friend of Leland Rogers. Yeah. He isn't here. I'm expecting him any minute. Well, I'd better not weigh. Perhaps I'd better not weigh. No, no, really. Mr. Rogers didn't even know I was coming. I'm sure he'd be furious if I'd interrupted anything. You see, he wasn't really... I... I'm taking calls tonight. Excuse me. Yes? Mr. Strange? Speaking? This is Lieutenant Manix, homicide. Homicide? Yes, Lieutenant. Tells me you've been with Mr. Rogers part of the evening. Yes, I have. Stepped out a while ago. I expect him back soon. Oh, no. When did it happen, Lieutenant? How? Found him making his rounds. Single shot did the job. Will you come over or shall I... I'll leave right away. Our mutual friend Leland Rogers was shot to death. Happened in his office. I'm going over there. You'd better come with me. No, no, no. I can't do that. Why not? Well, I... I can't get mixed up in anything like this. Maybe you already are, Miss... Milner. Gerald Milner. Listen, Mr. Strange, you must believe me. I... I only met Mr. Rogers once before. How do I know? That wasn't an hour ago in his office. Well, I haven't been out of the hotel. We live here, too. We have the suite on the floor above. We? My, uh... My husband and I. Oh. Well, I see. And he, uh... Well, he wouldn't like this. He wouldn't understand. I guess not. Have, uh... Have you been up there with him for the past few hours? No. No, I was low. Well, then how do I know that you... Oh, it's easy to prove that I didn't go out. Just check room service. I've sent down for things all evening. I... I was bored. That, I believe. Oh, please, Mr. Strange, now you won't implicate me. I'll, uh... check the room service. Ah. Police Lieutenant John Manix was a very efficient gentleman. When I pulled up at the downtown office of Rogers International Research, a lone police car was parked at the curb. I learned that the others, including an ambulance and Rogers' own car, had already been driven off. My cab rolled in behind the police car. I got out, paid the driver, and entered the building. They were expecting me. My elevator boy on the trip up was a heavy-set sergeant. He took me straight to Leland Rogers' office. Manix had made a few other calls. Rogers' partner, Jim Carr, was there together with an older man who Manix immediately introduced. Mr. Strange, Mr. Fogarty, are you? You've met Jim Carr? Oh, yes, yes, we've met. Yeah, Mr. Fogarty is more or less a silent partner in the firm, but under the circumstances... I'm only silent so I can listen better, Lieutenant. I know what's going on. Know all about Strange, his survey, how Leland felt about it. Did you know he wanted to call it off? What? That's the way it was, Mr. Fogarty. Changed his mind all of a sudden. I tried to talk him out of it, but he wouldn't listen. No, he was very determined. I... I don't understand. I don't understand at all. Either of you know any reason why he would have come down here than that? Pure impulsiveness, maybe. The worker, Lieutenant, lived for this office, his business. We all do, Mr. Fogarty. Hmm, I suppose. He had been actually usually lately worried, like he had things in his mind. Leland always had things on his mind. But he did behave oddly, Lieutenant. We've been worried about him. And the rest have, I haven't. What are you getting out, Lieutenant? Suicide? Right, unless one of you might be able to suggest an enemy. Leland had no enemies. Everybody loved the boy. I wouldn't go that far. Here now, Carl. The man's dead. Don't you say anything... Gentlemen, gentlemen. I believe there's something I should tell you. Go ahead, Strange, unless I'm mistaken, you were the last person to see Rogers alive. You are mistaken, Lieutenant. There was a hotel clerk. And if this wasn't a suicide, there was also his murderer. I stand corrected. Thank you. Now I'll tell my little story, or rather, Leland Rogers' story. That's all there is to it, Strange. Isn't that enough, Lieutenant? The man was terrified. Poppycock, Mr. Strange. Leland was never terrified by anything. That isn't quite true, Mr. Fogarty. I told you he'd been acting odd. He was carrying no little blank book when we found it. Naturally, a murderer wouldn't leave it to the mercies of a handwriting expert. But you saw this book? I saw it. They could be the simple explanation that Rogers had some sort of a lopsided idea that he didn't want his death to look like suicide. Could be. You don't think so? I don't think so. I've been in the business a long time, Strange. I've been writing about people for a long time, Lieutenant. I think I know when a man shows genuine fear. And of course, you have the added advantage of being the last brand of cinema. Me? Yes. And the hotel clerk? Lieutenant. Yes, Mr. Conn? I saw that book myself many times. Rogers always carried it. His idea book. Jotted down ideas he got at odd times. Strange, can you recall the wording of those unusual messages? I think so. There were four of them, one to a page. The first was at dawn, the sun casts long shadows. Huh? Go on, the other three. The horse lost a shoe while our bells were still ringing. And the third was turned down the blind spots pole. And the last, it will still be gloomy when you go home. There was a weather report attached to that. Nonsense. Nutty is a fruitcake. You know, Lieutenant, we all tried to get Leland to take a vacation. His secretary, Dr. Whitehouse. I didn't have any idea it was this bad car. Why didn't he know he was cracking up? Sell out before. Before he made the rest of us go broke? Lieutenant, there won't be a lot of fuss made over this, will there? Research group can't stand a lot of notoriety, you know? If you would see your way clear to keep things as quiet as possible. And let the police get the notoriety? I didn't mean that. I'm afraid we'll have to face the fact that the lieutenant isn't hired to keep things quiet, gentlemen. He's here to try and discover why Leland Rogers is dead tonight, instead of alive. Check.  One more thing, where do I get hold of Rogers' relatives? He has none that I know of. I'll give you his secretary's address. She was the closest to him. Oh, Lord, all the organization needs now is some relative popping in and trying to take over. You threw with us, Lieutenant? For the present, Mr. Foley. Then I'll say, good evening. Coming, Carr? All right, with you, if I may. They seem more upset over themselves than their partner. They do have a lot to lose, Lieutenant. That story Rogers told you. What do you think now? No known enemies, no relatives? Carr and Rogers had very opposite views on how to run the business. What do you mean, Carr? Just thinking. How do you figure this fogey? Seems like a nice old gent. Yeah, a little blue bit. Well, fine time of night to be waking up a young lady from her beauty sleep, but I'm going to talk to that secretary. Do you want to come along, Strange? So you can keep an eye on me? I didn't say that. No, matter of fact, I'm bursting to go. If you hadn't asked, I might have been over there so fast I'd have answered her door for you. That sounds like a man almost fast enough to be here tonight and back at that hotel in time to answer my phone call. Why don't you check with room service? I might. What's so funny? Oh, nothing, Lieutenant. Nothing at all. Let's go call on Miss Mona Bartlett. Panix was all right. I found that out as we drove across town. He was just a hard-working fellow anxious to do his job and do it well. I liked him, but I didn't share his growing theory that this was a simple case of suicide. We reached Mona Bartlett's apartment after climbing a steep flight of terracotta steps to a handkerchief-sized landing. Almost immediately, we heard the soft slap of Marcuson's coming in response to our ring. I almost didn't remember her when she opened the door. In white robe and slippers, her hair hanging to her shoulders, she was slight, childlike, a totally different creature from the formidable, efficient office guardian of the late Leland Rogers. Come in, please. Jim Carr called me. He told me what happened. Oh, I'm sorry. Do sit down. Thank you. I'm sorry to disturb you. Disturb me? Here, here, Miss Bartlett.  Sorry, but when Jim called, I felt like I was in the middle of a bad dream. I kept thinking it, but now you're coming here. Jim must have told you Lieutenant Manix wants to contact the next of kin. He thought that you. I really can't help you much there. Mr. Rogers wrote to no relatives. Mentioned none to my knowledge. Yeah. He was a long wolf. Maybe in his room or in a safety deposit box there'll be something. Oh, one more thing. Do you know of any business appointment he had tonight? No, I don't. Could have been meeting any one of the 80 people in the office. Do you know of any man in the office that he might have been afraid of meeting? No. Then there were the hundreds of past and present clients of the concern. Look, I'll give you the key to my desk, Lieutenant. You can check our appointment books. Thanks. Don't think I'll find anything, but you never know. Wasn't there a doctor you wanted to talk to, Manix? Dr. Whitehurst? Yeah, that's the name. It's Hildale 7757. I'll try him. Well, that's about all, Miss Bartlett. Unless, of course, you know of any enemies he had. No. You had no idea he was contemplating suicide. What is it, Miss Bartlett? I should have known that. What? Well, there was an assignment paper. He dictated it to me about a week ago. Said it was confidential. What was it all about? His voting shares of stock in the company. He assigned them to Jim Carr. Huh? I remember he said this would be until a certain situation was cleared up. You had no idea what that situation was. No. Carr knew about the assignment? He still doesn't. It's in Mr. Raj's safety deposit box. He said that no one, not even Mr. Carr, must know. Well, he'll know now already. Yes, he will. And say, how did those two get along? Different ideas, but they complimented one another. Both knew it. The company meant everything to both of them. OK, thanks, Miss Bartlett. See you tomorrow. Are you all right? I will be. Would you? Could you stay for a few minutes? Of course.  I'll get in touch with you. You won't have to, Strange. We're always around. You'll find the liquor in the cupboard above the sink. And? And Jim Carr wanted you to call him back. After Mannix left, if possible. Know what he wants? I can guess. Never approved of calling off the survey on your book. That's my guess, too. I'll sleep on it. Call him in the morning. Whatever you say. Come on. Oh, he was a powerhouse. He was the heart and soul of that business. He'll all be lost without him. I'll be lost. Oh, I don't think told someone about that assignment. Oh, no, no, please, please take it easy. That's the bad part about a thing like this. Everybody thinks about what they might have done. Chance's arm is Bartlett there. There wasn't anywhere you or anyone could have stopped him. Do you believe that? Yes. She buried her face in my shoulder. I could smell the fragrance of her skin feel the convulsive movement as she cried it out. She stayed there until her breath grew even again, peaceful, her taut body relaxed. Then abruptly, she pulled away from me, stood up. I must I want to call Greg. Greg? Greg Rome. He's one of our research workers. Mr. Rogers thought a lot of him. Oh, of course. Thank you very much, Mr. Strange. Not at all. You want me to call a taxi for you? No, I won't. Good night, Mona. Operator, I want to put in a call to San Francisco for Greg Rome at the Wilkins Hotel. That's right, Greg Rome. I went down the stairs wondering if I wasn't being a little foolish about the whole matter. I tried to tell myself that I ought to tab that story of Rogers for what it probably was and accept Manix's ideas about the case. I guess I just about decided that way as I came out of the building and stepped off the curb. That's when I heard the car come roaring around the corner behind me. Look out. What are you doing? In tonight's full hour of suspense, Edmund O'Brien stars as Eric in The Blind Spot, adapted for radio by Joel Malone. Tonight, study in Suspense. He will return with act two of Suspense. This is CBS, The Columbia Broadcasting System. Back to our Hollywood soundstage, an act two of The Blind Spot, starring Edmund O'Brien. Eric Strange has known fear. And this night, he has seen the brilliant mind of Leland Rogers overpowered by fear, a fear that has cost his life. Now it is Eric's life that is in danger. This man whose business it is to deal in facts has been driven by instinct and intuition to dismiss the verdict of suicide against his friend Leland Rogers in favor of murder. And this course has led him into the path of a swerving automobile. And now, with Edmund O'Brien as Eric and with act two of The Blind Spot, we again hope to keep you in suspense. It was irrelevant, seconds, minutes, hours. But when the first bright thread of consciousness broke through the pattern of darkness, I had the feeling that I hadn't been knocked out for long. A damp night air chilled me as I lay sprawled on the sidewalk. I got up slowly, wondering why I was still alive. I discovered one thing for sure. Someone had wanted me out of the way badly enough to risk his own neck in jumping his car over an 18-inch curbing down the corner where the car must have been parked. Waiting for me, I found something else. Three cigarette stubs. One was still warm. I jumped like a jackrabbit while I thought it was my friend coming back. It was just a cruising cab. I must have looked pretty frightening to the driver. You all right, buddy? Yes, yeah, great. Take me to the Park Central Hotel. The Park Central? Hey, look, when I see guys picking up cigarettes, but I don't pay... Here, here, I got plenty of money here. Get going. Yeah, get going. I'm going all right. Going nuts. Why, why, you've been hurt. You ought to see the other car. Look, I was going to stay here with Leland Rogers. Oh, yes, sir. We'll give you the room next to his suite. The police are up there now. Oh, Lieutenant Manix is... He's having Mr. Rogers' rooms locked up. The boy will take you up, Mr. Strange, and if you want anything... Just ring? Yes, sir. What happened, Strange? Is that a kissing? Yes. Yes, the angel of death. I don't mean Miss Bartlett. Lieutenant, when I came out of the building, somebody tried to run me down. Well, hit-and-run drivers. Ah, they're bad out here. You're too logical, Lieutenant. I could grow to hate you. I tell you, the man was waiting for me. I found cigarette stubs. One was still warm. It'll be cool before you can get into court as evidence.   Find anything next door? Another thing. And Mac just called from headquarters. Only fingerprints on Rogers' gun were his own. Want to say somebody wore gloves? Okay, I'm too knocked out to argue. I'll run along, Eric. You better get yourself some sleep, and maybe tomorrow? Yes. Decide that I know what I'm talking about. Maybe I've already decided. I doubt it. You're the stubborn type. Think so? Definitely. We're getting all about the cases of right now. That must have been a Cadillac, a big one. Sorry I accused you of playing post office. It's all right, Knight. Post office, maybe that's it. Come on, come on. Which board? Get me the post office. I want to speak to the postmaster. Sorry. Since the time never was too good. I'll try him a little later. The post office hunch was a wild one, but I followed it through. He was there bright and early talking to the supervisor. Would you repeat that request, Mr. Strange? Certainly. I want a list of people who've applied for post-box rentals in the last two weeks. Right.  I know about your work for the State Department, but what the devil do you want for those names? A friend of mine was corresponding with a Burnham Detective Agency in New York. I don't think he would have wanted his correspondence to go through his office. We couldn't open any letters, you know. I know, I know, but there probably aren't any. I just want to know if he rented a box. Look, I checked with Henley upstairs. Oh, well, that's different. Why didn't you say so? Well, let's have a look here. Last two weeks, eh? Mm-hmm. Only one name. Lance Martin. Box 208. Lance Martin? Perhaps he... Look, I'll be back. You've been a big help. Thanks a lot, and... Hey, where do you think you're going? I'm terribly sorry, I'm in a hurry.  Yes, I have to make a New York call. The call was to Pete Starr, my agent, the man who'd do anything for me for 10%. I asked him to check somehow with the Burnham Detective Agency, see if they were working for a Lance Martin and Beverly Hills Post Office Box 208. All I could do was wait on that. So I made another call, then headed down to the research office to keep an appointment with Jim Carr. He'd taken over, but good. He was sitting in Roger's chair, dictating furiously when I walked in. And if this emergency division of authority between the board members and myself results in a more balanced and scientific control of RIR, I see no reason why the system should not be made permanent. I... Oh, didn't hear you come in strange. Sorry if I interrupted, Miss Bartlett said... Oh, it's all right. Sit down. Tight that much up right away, Miss Atkins. Yes, sir. I caught that last paragraph about your dividing control. It's a method I've always advocated. It's an excellent time to install it after that assignment of Roger Starr. Well, yes, yes. Strange, you don't suppose that assignment might cause anybody to wonder... Have they any cause, too? I shouldn't have mentioned it.  What? These pills I have to feed myself for ulcers, nerves, everything in the book.  Oh. Oh, this business. Mr. Carr, I'd better ease one of your worries right now. We'll go ahead with my survey. When can you start? Why, right away, Strange, immediately. I'll start things humming. There'll be 700 men out asking questions about your book within 24 hours. Fine, I'll be at the hotel if you have to check on anything. I'm expecting a long distance call. Very good, and thank you, Mr. Strange. Thank you very much. Be assured that I... that will do a job for you. Crossing the hotel lobby toward the desk, I happened to glance into the cocktail room. I saw a familiar reflection in one of the big mirrors and back with a bar. In fact, two familiar reflections. I went in, sat down beside Mona Bartlett. Mr. Strange, hello. Hi. Eric Strange, Gregory Rowe. How are you, sir? Greg just got in from San Francisco about 20 minutes ago. Really? Well, he must do it with mirrors. What? We ran into each other in the post office this morning. The post office? Oh, you must be mistaken. I... I must be. I'm a lucky girl, Mona. If anything should happen to this boyfriend, you've got his exact twin to turn to. All you have to do is find him. Just a mix-up, Strange. Chances are the fellow was... Doesn't even look like you're sure. Probably smokes a different brand of cigarettes, too. Just what are you getting at, Strange? Sorry, I'm... I'm always suffering from, uh... blind spots. Have to dash, Mona, expecting a call. But everything... I rode up in the elevator, wondering vaguely where Greg Roem fitted into the picture, and just what time he had arrived from San Francisco. But I didn't have long to think about it. They'd given me the room next to Leland Rogers Suite. It was supposed to be locked up on police order, but I could hear someone moving around in there. I went out on the balcony, found that it connected with his. A few moments later, I was looking through a pair of French doors and a pair of legs. They belonged to Cheryl Milner. She saw me, almost passed out, then changed her mind and came over to let me in. Eric, what are you doing here? That's a funny question, Cheryl, but I haven't time to laugh. What's the idea? The idea? I lost a ring when I was here with you, and I thought I'd better get it back. My husband wouldn't... Wouldn't understand. I know. Where's the ring? Uh, right here.  Just how did you get in? The bell, Captain. I... Bride. Yeah. They're so obliging here, so understanding when a lady's in distress. So is room service. I... I don't know what you mean, Eric. Oh, really, darling. Excuse me, don't you see what this can do to your alibi? Oh, I never thought... I'm not so sure that... My call.  I'll talk to you later. Please, dude.  Hello. Hello, Eric. This is Pete. Pete, do you get what I wanted? Yeah, I think so. Fourth, they found that she died in an asylum for the insane 10 years ago, brought there by the police. I see. Wonder if Rogers was ever married. What? Uh, nothing. Keep talking. A letter in her be treated right. It was signed by her son, Darryl Martin. There's no trace of the boy before or since. Pete, I think we've hit it. Her son, Rogers' son, he'd be grown up now. It's the man he was afraid of. It's all right. That could have been a maiden name, don't you see? No, I don't. What's it all about, Eric? Have him time. Write your book about it later. He deserted them, left them. What a motor. Huh? Oh, coming, coming. Mona, I thought you were... I have to see you, Eric. I made an excuse. Sure. Come on in. I haven't long, but I had to know what you were driving at downstairs. About Greg, I mean. Meeting him in the post office this morning? You didn't, of course. I met his plane, Eric. Why are you protecting him? In love with a guy? I don't know. I've known him ever since college. I guess he's... Well, he's always sort of dependent on me. Big fella like that? Oh, you don't know him, Eric. He's been hurt inside, I mean, by things that have happened. What kind of things? Eric, he... Greg once killed a man. Killed a man? It wasn't his fault. It was an accident. But please, I didn't come here to tell you about that. Then why did you come here? Eric, I... I like you very much. I wish you'd give this up. Except Lieutenant Manix's theory before... Before what, Mona? I have a feeling that something might happen. It almost did. I tangled with a hit-and-run driver when I left your place. What? It's all right. Manix's pedestrians are on their own in this town. But, Mona... Yes? Won't you tell me when Greg really got back in town? I've told you all I'm going to. How old is Greg? About 26. But... Where are his folks? Have you ever met them? No. No, I never have. You won't tell me any more about his accident. Where'd you two go to school? San Carlos College. That seems like such a long time ago. Stop it, will you? How do you think you make me feel? I'm 35. I was a lovely angel. Eric... You will get out of this. Leave Greg alone. I'm sorry, Mona. I want to be very sure about the guy you marry. I didn't say I... No. Nobody's a habit now that he's said it. Yes. He wants me to marry him right away. Don't. Please, Mona. Just give me a couple of days. Maybe you'll ask. I have to get back down. He'll wonder what... You won't promise? I can't, Eric. I'm too mixed up. Come here. What? I'll mix you up a little more. Eric, I... Maybe... Maybe to confuse you enough to wait. Maybe a lot of other reasons, Mona. We'll talk about it when I get back. Where are you going? Right now... To college. Dean Spear at San Carlos College was a man who lived by a routine. It didn't include sudden, unannounced visitors. And after my long flight up there, it appeared that I might not get to see him. A lady came to my rescue again. The dean's housekeeper. She's read my books. Didn't like them, but thought all writers were romantic figures. She said she had a plan. She disappeared. A few minutes later, the dean came ambling out of his study. Strange. You're the author of Blindspots, eh? That's right, sir. Have a chair. May I commend you, young man? You have the rare gift of making facts plausible. Even our freshman read you. Thank you, dean. My housekeeper, Mrs. Wilkins, tells me you're considering a post in our economic department. Oh. That woman always does things the hard way. Didn't she think I'd talk to the author of Blindspots? She doesn't like the books, sir.  Kind and harmless, though. So, what did you have in mind, Mr. Strange? An ex-student of yours. Gregory Rome. What about Rome? I... Well, I'm going to Greece, you see, for the State Department. I'm picking up two assistants. Rome's name was suggested. Now, if you could add your recommendation... I can't. I suggest you contact Roger's international research. He works for them. Well, naturally, I had Leland Rogers on my list, but since his violent death... Violent death? I thought suicide came under that category. In any case, since I can't ask him, I thought perhaps the man who must have suggested Rome for the job in the first place... I didn't suggest him. If anyone did, it was our honor student here, Mona Bartlett. Then you refused to put in a word for Rome? I resent your asking it. I resent your forcing me to blight a man's career. Rome may have fought his way successfully out of a bad beginning, but confound it strange. After our experience with him here... There was an accident of some sort that I'd like to... I don't mean that. That was during a wrestling match. Rome killed his opponent. The athletic board dismissed it. Blamed it on inexperience, the result of imperfect wrestling technique. I'm sure he was blameless in that instance. It might have happened to anybody. But there was something else. There was indeed. A shocking, premeditated act of violence. That's why you reacted so little, and Rodgers, so as I... It is. To be explicit, strange, we expelled Rome for something just short of murder. Gone? On a certain spring evening during his junior year, Rome, way-laid and brutally beat his professor of public opinion measurement, left the man a mass of bruises, lacerations and a concussion. We found him only just in time. What motive did he have for the attack? But that's exactly the point. He had none whatsoever. He told a preposterous story of the professor making improper advances toward Rome's fiancee. A charge described as ridiculous by the girl as well as by the professor. I see. Why didn't the professor prefer charges? He had no wish to bring notoriety on either the school or his family. What about Rome's parents? Couldn't they shed any light on his actions? As I recall, the boy was an orphan. I see. Say, he didn't have any grandparents, did he? Name of Martin? I see no reason to pursue the matter further, Mr. Strange. I do not recall names. And I have no intention of doing anything at all that might help Gregory Rome into a position of trust. Good night, sir. The dean went back to his routine, and I headed back to the airport. I'd had to lie, but I'd learned plenty about the past of Gregory Rome, and it wasn't pretty. Flying down the coast, I felt as if I was trying to push that plane at greatest speed. My mind, my heart, my body were all tensed and driving it forward with the terrible realization that Mona Bartlett might, at that moment, be with this madman, might even be deciding to marry him. It was all clear now. Rogers, knowing there was a son somewhere, a boy he'd never seen, hadn't even known about when he'd left the mother to be committed to an asylum. When he learned it, realized from those notes that it was someone in his own office, a fear had hidden. I didn't blame him for being afraid. I shuddered thinking about Mona, the way she'd somehow believed in Greg all these years. Champion, remained faithful in spite of everything. I had to get back. I had to get back. Mr. Warren Town, if you want this hack to go any faster, drive it yourself. It's all right. It's deserted out here. I don't care. Well, look, turn left at the end of the block. Or a partner's right around the corner. See the car in front. Stop right behind it. OK. He's here. Hey, that's the car. That's the car that hit me. What are you talking about? Never mind. Look, driver, here's $10 for you. Now, pick up Lieutenant Manix, homicide division, police headquarters. Bring him here on the double. Oh, Mr. Take it from me. Don't go mixing with the police. Tell him. And look, go up there and talk it over with a peaceable. And then you just say blind spots. He'll come. Now go on. OK. My turn towards the apartment started inside. Wasn't easy, but I had to realizing Mona was up there with him.  I wondered how his next opponent would make out. Hello, Greg. Hello. I want to see Mona. You want to see Mona? Sure you do, you post office Johnny. All the men I'd like to see, Mona. Glad you're here, strange. Glad you went to San Carlos. Now you know what's coming. Greg, not here if we go over the stairwell. Try to drag her into it. Just because she had a date with him that night, you won't, I won't let. Greg, stop it. Stop it. Leave him alone. Stop it. I can stop. Mona. Mona, you shot me. Sorry. I was trying to. I know. Where is he? He's still out. He struck his head on the stairs when you're hitting him. Did you call the police? No. Eric, please. He suffered enough. You know, you know who he is.   I'm sorry for Mona, but we've got to turn him in. He's a homicidal maniac. Come on, help me to the phone. No, Eric, no. Listen, we'll have to put him away ourselves, quietly. This is no time to drag this thing through the courts. Why? Why isn't it the time?  Eric, you've got to think of yourself.  Like Roger's? Greg was right. I'm very fond of you, Eric. Please. Please, for my sake. Don't call the police. Mona, Mona, don't you realize what you're saying? We can't decide this thing you're talking crazy. That's when it hit me. Greg's words suddenly came bouncing back. Words that changed everything. Wiped away the last blind spot. Try to drag her into it, just because she had a date with him that night. Mona, you, Daryl Martin, a girl's name, your name. I gave you a chance, Eric. I could have fired again. It wasn't an accident. You meant to hit me, then you lost your nerve. I love you, Eric. I really do. No, I'm asking you to play this my way. Will you? No.  You're bleeding badly. Very badly. That should do it.  Greg, Greg, he was just a foil of someone to fool me. To help me? Yes. And at full roaches, Greg was an orphan, the right age. And after his wrestling accident, he was shaken. I kept him that way. Oh, it's crazy rotten. And that professor, I go to deem into that. He was so jealous of me, Eric. Poor fool, he didn't have a chance. What about me? My mother? Did we have a chance? But Mona, Mona, to destroy the lives of others. To get to Leland Rogers, I'd do it all over again, every step. Holds entries in his book. Effective, too, weren't they, Eric?  But why me? You wouldn't stop. I beg you to remember. And this was to look like Greg's doing. Still can. It's his gun. And if you're not alive, to challenge me.  No, Eric.  I'm so glad. The guy can't go out on me.  Can I talk to him, Dr. Whitehurst? Now, take it easy, all of you. Mr. Strange, this is Dr. Whitehurst. You're in a hospital, huh? Hospital? Where? Mona, what about? She's dead, Eric. She shot herself when we pulled up in front. Oh, you're the funny thing, though. She called the emergency hospital for you. No. Something.  I guess it's a woman's privilege to change a mind. Yeah. By the way, Eric, what about young Greg here? What do you want us to do? Oh, hello, Greg. Mr. Strange, uh, I.  Yes, I didn't know what I was doing. I was so much in love with her. You'll get over it. And don't feel too bad. I had the same blind spot. Thanks, Mr. Strange. Hey, Dr. Whitehurst, could the patient possibly take a phone call and say it's urgent? I don't know. How do you feel, Strange? All right. I'll plug in right here. Hold the receiver for you. Thanks. Hello? Mr. Strange? Yes? Cheryl Milner. Hi. Hi, yes, sir. Horrible old hospital. I'm just done. 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To meme, or not to meme? If you need some Corbin, please follow us on Instagram! And think of your source on Patreon. Yep, we appreciate the patronage. We do, we do, we really do. Very, very, very much, sincerely. Um, but, uh, also please follow us on our official Twitter account, because... That's where you find the pole dancing. Also, the people that created these memes are from Twitter. Yep, that's true. And I regularly, I'm not on there as much as I know superbabies want me over there. Or I regularly will get messages on Instagram that say, Why aren't you on Twitter? There's a lot of fun stuff going on over there. Yeah, Twitter's my favorite. Yeah. That's where you'll find him. It's our second meme review, if you haven't seen our first one. It was the best. Uh, and so go watch it. Uh, but this is part numeral. Duh. Duh! Uh, so, which, this just, yeah, it's crazy. People are taking time out of their lives to make memes. I love it. I do too. Thank you for doing it. It makes us really happy. Here we go.  I'm in that red dress. Look, I got nice leg. I have come here from the year 2040. Me, okay? How's OSR doing? Time traveler. Are you talking about the channel which set the record for fastest 100 million subs? Yeah! Heck yeah! So, you see, that's where the trouble began. Me, look at that smile.  Corbin. Don't talk about my wife! Also, doesn't film her, doesn't post picture with her. Rick. Talk about her and with her and films her on his personal YouTube channel, Corbin. It's true! Over there, we should reenact that. Find some waterfalls somewhere.  It's true and that's what I look like in green pants. That's true! That's absolutely true! That's 100% accurate. He's not interested in less foods involved. No. We fed him the day we did the 300K video. Wow. I already did it better. What happens someday?  Like a thing like that where he's actually involved. Yeah, I've seen this one before and I'm sorry, Sartaj. It's not accurate. You've got to say them both. Priyanka can pick up Saif Ali Khan. Probably and carry him out and I'll carry Priyanka while she carries Sartaj. She's a strong independent woman, she doesn't even know me. That's true, she'll carry both of us. Who would have thought that one day this innocent kid would be the biggest heartthrob of India? My mother did.  It's like a shaved dog. You know it's funny. One of those hairless cats. You know it's funny though. That's like a year ago. It's true. The difference in his age without the facial hair. That's not me at 16. No, that's not him in high school. That's like him like last summer. Yeah. I age that much with a beard. It's true. It's insane. The ultimate move whenever an Indian is about to lose an argument. Oh yeah? What does that mean though? I don't know what it means. I do believe it's the same thing as... Maybe up the bum? No, I think it's actually the same as like... Oh really? That makes a cooler sound than this though. It's true. Hey! I like it. And I don't know that you have to do the triples now. I think it's just the... I don't know. And this thing. Have you noticed how much I do this now? Yeah. It has become a natural part of my mannerisms now. Racist. Some of the best toilet paper in the world. I'm really... Oh! I get it. Some of the best toilet paper in the world. I don't know. Scots. This is the hate mail we got. Got it! Done! I actually like the hate mail. But good one. That's a good one. What's going on there? Hey Corbin. How was your day? No. How was your... I think they're about to say wife. Oh! Gotcha. Yeah. I know this meme and it's a popular meme in India. This is not the actual meme. It's not me. But it's a guy with... It's basically this whole thing except for my head. Wow. That looks like you in that shirt with all that stuff. That's pretty well done. It looks like it's a popular meme that they just inserted me. I don't got it. I don't understand the meme. And so... I don't either. It doesn't... But many of you may be finding it hysterical right now and that's what makes us happy. We've got to look up closer. Oh! They gave beards to Ashley and Alexis. And to me... I've seen myself in a beard. I don't like it. I don't mind whiskers like five o'clock shadows. But they just put my face on every single one of them. Oh. That's me. That's you? Every single one of them. Oh, wait a minute. Can you zoom in on that? Because I think it's going to send me into a place of darkness I've never known. I'm seeing your face on Ashley and Alexis' body and that is just... Good looking. Good stuff. Let me tell you. Nightmares. It's good looking. Wow. Fifty shades of... No. Okay. It's you and me. What's in the reflection? Sarkasha? I don't know. Some of these are too small. Sorry. He believed in himself. He believed he could inspire people. And finally... In 2019. I love how that happened and we didn't know. I know about it yet. Because I was way before we saw that scene. That's true. Any of that. Oh, man. Rick. Corbin. I have an idea. Corbin. What? Rick. In the next video, let's have Stephanie Corbin take your idea and... Park it up your... That's what I said to you when you're behind this scene. Oh, that's right. That's the behind the... Nice. That's... You went to Rick's channel. Went to my channel to do that. I'm very proud of you. Oh, I've seen that. Yeah. You're actually at least almost every school. Yes. In a college street fight. You know, where you're talking to somebody. I'm not going to do it because you need to be touched. Where they're talking to somebody and they will... Hey, you just...  Look, who touches people? When you're... There's two things that happen. No, you punch them. No, no, no. This is... We're talking like school, age, not college, obviously. But in school age, the main thing that happened for me, like, at school, was the proverbial shoulder bumping. Did you ever have to come up alongside somebody and go, Yeah, come on. Come on. Come on. You bang shoulders. No, I was a man and I punched people in the... Kids. Yep. Kids. No one ever touched my face, Rick. I can promise you that. Because that would have been... If your face was on your shoulder... That would have been a... Guarantee... Disglogically punching the face. Yeah. No, I didn't start punching people to high school. I think I was in elementary school when I first punched them. Punched them all? Sexy Katrina. Sexy red-headed beast. Yeah, it's true. Popping out like the SRK video. I'm really happy how that scene turned out. Yeah, I am too. Only one person shows up at Area 51. Be scared, government. Yeah, be very scared. That's true. That's what happens behind the scenes. I'm unsubscribing from your dumb-ass reason. Bye-bye. If you've never seen that, that is his common... When somebody threatens to unsubscribe, his response is, See ya. Bye. I don't understand why people feel the need to threaten you. If you don't want to... Like, subscribe to the channel, that's fine. Why do you feel the need to tell me? It's a threat. Okay. Because they think we're like focused so much on views and subscribers that a YouTube channel losing a subscriber and that's... We don't think about it so... If you think about doing that for attention, we gotta block every single one of those that do it. I will help you out to not follow this channel again. And he's done that. People have threatened to unsubscribe and he's said, Okay, great. And blocked you. So you had to create a new account if you wanted to get back into watching the channel. It's fun for me. He's copying okay? It depends. In exams only.  It's true. Now copying an exam is Corbin to do it all the time. You know who you are. Look how they messed with my boy. That's good. That's really thoughtful. Right there. First of all, we've got Pistrami Mastinani. It sounds like an Italian name. Look how they messed with my boy. Did you record and edit the reaction? Yes, I did. What did it cost? Nicely. It's true. Especially in the Game of Thrones days. Yeah, that's very true. Young Akshay Kumar. Yeah, I got that actually. I can see a little bit. In the eyes. But we've got a similar eyebrow line and facial lines. His face is a little bit longer I think. But I see that. I'm going to find that to be a high compliment. So thanks. Oh God. This is true. This is 100% accurate right here. No doubt about it. Well, isn't it? Ranveer and the Speedo. Yeah, it was. You've got to think of both of them. But the first and the most special one for you is going to be Rithic. And how many times you've defended this is the 21st century. It is. He's a good living man. She did it better. Yeah. Whoa. Things couples do. Favorite romantic things. Make your partner blush. Looking romantically. Sang romantic song for them. Book a home movie theater. And my favorite movie theater moment with Corbin Miles is the fact that we saw the movie Moonlight on the super moon alone together in the theater just the two of us. You've done that with a couple places. You've done it with South Dakota. You've done it with Florida. I think you've done it with any of the southern states. Yeah. Pretty much. Well, South Dakota's not really south though. Even though it's southern of north. But it's not in south. No, correct. Correct. Fear not. I'll save you.  Yeah, she was already dead when I talked to her. It's true. If you haven't subscribed to the channel yet, Eminent Death is approaching it. I was expecting the last screen to actually be Santa giving you Rithic. He murdered you. Does Santa want Rithic's underwear too?  Oh, yeah. Fringy. No, no, no. You think it's good. I do. Problems, pain, stress. Right.  Oh, got it. With a cringy 90s reaction. And so they suplex us. Right. And they're suplexed because they were expecting us to help them with their pain and their stress and their problems. But we've actually compounded the problem by giving them. Come on. You know you love the cringy 90s music videos. Some people don't. It's true. It's so true. Yup. Sadly, now it's happening on my channel. What's going on here? Whoa, whoa. I think this is maybe just a collab. It is. Oh, it's, this is, this is a response to when people, and this happens recently, people who don't know us. And they'll make a comment of you're just doing this for views. And then we'll reply. You obviously don't know us to look at our history and somebody did it and put the history because look, it begins with Gully. This is really great. It begins with Gully Boy. I think this is chronological. No, it's not because Holy's here and the cricket is here, but it doesn't matter. It's still, it's, it's time period. It's still one of my favorite. When we got this overplay button. Yeah. And then the intro that we made, it's still my favorite. Opening up in the light. Me too. Yeah. With the 2001 music. Also. Copy. Ah, I love these. Was this the last one? Yeah, it was. Great one to end on. Ah, thank you all so much. Yeah. The fact that you would go out of your way to, and I know you do it all time on, on Twitter if you'd like to see at least like every single day I reach, we like every single one. And then I share them with them. Thank you so much because it's, it's, it really means a lot. We don't take you guys for granted. Also, I don't know any other reaction channels that have the kinds of subscribers that we have. I agree. And I venture to say though I don't pay attention to a lot of different YouTubers. I know when I explain our channel to people, their immediate response is purely from a business standpoint of oh, what a great idea and oh, that's great. You're having success. And they tell me about people they know who had success quote, unquote with their YouTube channel. And I always get a little defensive and say, yeah, that is great. And we love that aspect of it. But the deeper thing that I always go into is, yeah, but like our subscribers aren't subscribers.  And we get messages from them that say things like I was in a depression for two years and you guys every day now have become something that makes life worth living again and sending pictures. I got pictures from somebody who they just had their baby. And their thought was to send a picture and said, I wanted you to share this because you're family. That's what you guys are. That's at the heart of what we do is the fact that we're, it's not just a YouTube channel or subscribers. This is a place where we all get to celebrate a culture and a place that we love and hang out and be together. And that last one for me is just like, it's like when we did remember how emotional I got when we reacted to our Gallipoli reaction, totally shocked me how emotional I got. So we love you. Yeah. A lot. And don't stop sending memes. Yes. Keep making them.


Tom here from Lawrence Systems and IAAC Systems has sent me for review a Free NAS, I'm sorry true NAS. I'm gonna keep mixing that up for a little while You know bear with me while I say true NAS and say it all together true NAS core System now this is actually still running the beta so the test will be done all on the beta but they sent me this for review and I started with this being on and IAAC Systems has done a great job on this Free NAS mini line true NAS mini line of making them really really quiet because I'm louder than this by a lot I think my laptop when it spins up is louder than this and I have the lid off on it So I'm gonna first say hats off to making a really nice quiet system And that's really important because the target audience for this are people who you know want something that maybe sits in their Office with them. I've done a demo before on the Free NAS mini e a really tiny one How you can use it as a steam library even you know for me? Yeah, because you got 40 terabytes of games and you need to place a store at all I'll leave a link to that video if you're interested in this might be anything more fun box to do that with But the quiet nature of it is really impressive. It's low wattage Recently priced and low-powered So it's checking a lot of boxes that make people happy that quietness is really neat I've actually been reviewing it for a couple weeks. It's been just out of camera while I did videos while it was on and So far I had no problems with it at all went through a couple updates already Before we dive into some of the details and talk about this box and all the fun stuff with it Let's first click that like button and feel like to learn more about me and my company head over to Lawrence systems calm If you like to hire short project, there's a hires button right at the top If you like to help keep this channel sponsor free and thank you to everyone who already has There is a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page. Your support is greatly appreciated If you're looking for deals or discounts on products and services we offer on this channel Check out the affiliate links down below. They're in the description of all of our videos Including a link to our shirt store We have a wide variety of shirts that we sell and new designs come out. Well randomly so check back frequently and Finally our forums forums.laurancesystems.com is where you can have a more in-depth discussion about this video and other tech topics You've seen on this channel now back to our content We'll start here with the IX systems announcement. So on August 20th They had made the announcement that the compact office storage system provides up to 85 terabytes of whisper quiet HED and flash via 10 gig networking and we'll cover all the specs of this but yes, it does have 10 gig networking included This is a really nice upgrade. I'll leave a link to the press release and let's jump over to right here and This is we'll run down through all the marketing stuff I'll leave that for you to read and we'll just talk about it from the standpoint of this is the one I reviewed before the true Nassimini E with only four hot swap old base dual core C 3 3 8 Intel CPU Yes, that says dual core and this was something I brought it before that even though it was a dual core It was able to do quite a bit and still continues to run all of my son's steam games Along with being a Plex server along with a lot of other features that I do with it So I'm really impressed with the amount of efficiency you get out of this small dual core system that like I said I've still been using this one of course is an octa core So we've bumped up the speed a bit the three C three seven five eight Intel CPU And now we have five plus two hot swap bays and from eight gigs of RAM to 32 gig Actually the one that we have here, which I've already unplugged it And I just yanked the power cord out has specifically 64 gigs of ram in it So as outfitted it's also has all SSDs in here So we're not gonna have any spinning drives like I said I'm gonna say the benchmarks for another time goes on a scope of this particular video The default config comes with dual 10 gig on there and our system has dual 10 gig RJ45s and dual SFP plus 10 gig so technically we get four 10 gig ports on this that's pretty impressive and Great performance like they said here We'll dive into the performance of a later They have all the very detailed specs right here But let's take a closer look at the hardware and I'm on among the other links I'm gonna leave here serve the home has also done a write-up on the IA system tune as many x plus and Like I said, they think positively of it as I do Patrick does a great job over there on your write-ups The one thing I'll comment on that I will not be able to demo I'm running a beta version of well a slightly different one than they probably reviewed Beta version it seems to have broke the enclosure display So that is a feature that's going to be when this comes out of beta that it's going to be able to do this and you'll Have full enclosure now really like this. This is the builder to buy it argument you occasionally get this is a big advantage When you buy one of these IA system knows exactly where all the drives are because they designed and engineered this Therefore if you have a problem, they're all listed in order very clearly and you can get You know these little Diagnostics that come up when you get a true IA systems and I just want to bring it up. So thought it was really cool But unfortunately it decided in the beta to have a problem. I'm not sure where that problem lies I've notified them. They know that it's not doing it But please note that's because we're running a beta version of software because I'm really trying to test out the latest version Now let's look at the hardware itself and dive a little bit closer into this Actually, I pulled the power cord up and out the other cords We'll start at the front that five drives that we have here. We have five That are the three and a half now even though we have two and a half inch SSDs in there They're easily removed. They're easy to lock and keep fingers out of them And I'll bring that up because if you're using this in a home and you have kids or someone I mean, who doesn't want to press that button? I mean that spring action is pretty cool And yeah, if this is where kids I know kids shouldn't be in reach of a nest but people saying that probably don't have kids kids are very clever at finding Things with buttons on them and pressing them and these little buttons have the ability to be locked So you spin the little Knob in them and they will go into a lock mode. You can't easily open them up the same thing with down here We have a couple mini versions These are a little snug would come right out and these don't have the lock Unfortunately, but the same little spring action when they pop up These are little two and a half inch bays down at the bottom and like I said everything in here is all SSDs So we'll get this pop back in now spinning around to this side right here This is a nice feature. This is a full height SFP plus card in there So this is a Chelsea. Oh, I think I said it right and it's dual SFP plus on here and full height For the adding card. So there's our two 10 gig ports on the back at the IPMI to USBs and That full height So if you want to switch out for a different card that you thought maybe was more compatible Or you will swap put your own card and not order it for my X systems for an add-in one easy enough Take side cover off to full height which is you know opens you up to more cards than does the half height one There's plenty of room in here to fit that now kind of obscured behind here We'll try to see it though is the way the back plane is connected to these drives so the back plane is Has a kind of like a sass expander is what it reminds you of but it's all SATA and that SATA is Connected and expanded off the motherboard off a connector and then goes out to a series of SATAs that go into the back plane And the integration for the case now the operating system itself is loaded on a SATA DOM That's just kind of hard to see but it's back there Behind the card now flip around to the other way This is how the cable management came to us one IX system ship me this device for a review and It's clean enough. It's for all the little extra cables that they have they tucked them up nice I didn't have to do anything nothing feels in the way and for a compact case design I think they did a very adequate job on the cable management now the fans are of course a important part one They're accessible replaceable, but they chose some really quiet fans We have the larger fan in the back right here and it seems to have no problem pulling enough air through There is a CPU fan on here as well to keep the CPU cool and everything seems really well made So it shouldn't have any problems and you know provided you don't have a super dusty environment should have a really really long life Dust kills more PCs than age We were talking about this the other day how most of time if a computer doesn't get dusty It's traded in or removed out of service for obsolescence But yeah, if you have a really dirty environment, yeah, keep that keep them clean They last a really long time usually age out before they die out But there's only those fans in there That's really it you have one in the back and then one CPU fans That's part of what contributes to keeping it so quiet. So let's get this plugged in I'm gonna put the lid back on which makes it of course even quieter than it was You could probably hear a little bit in the microphone But we'll put the lid back on run down the software real quick and talk about some of the other details We're gonna start right here with the lights out management I really like this feature being on these devices because well now I don't have to have a monitor sitting next to them And of course it makes it that much easier when you're doing an update remotely and you're nervously waiting for that screen and login page But you want to see what's on the display and the console output and of course the system is modern so comes with the HTML5 version being able to log in I really just just makes my life easier. I can see what IP address I see what's on the screen. I see what it's up to has the power controls capture if I need to reboot it Virtual keyboard and another thing that's really nice and we'll close this is the virtual media options And if you need to remotely reload this you can set up a virtual media path in here as well So get the you know new ISO that you need attach it Virtually to this and it does require some local storage if you're trying to do that It does have the ability to mount I believe from your computer as well But that's not if you're remote that may not be as effective, but this concept being in there is a nice feature Besides remote control we have a handful of alert options fan alerts syslog alerts Which is great so you can have hardware alerts going to wherever you need them to go So you can keep an eye on the hardware of what's going on We have server health sensor readings and event logs so we can check the temperature and see how it's doing So it's been running for a little while at the on from the time I turned it on I actually ran a few tests did a few things. It's been about an hour of on time I wanted it to ramp up to see where it sat temperature wise and you know still not overheating not too hot It still seems pretty reasonable Now on to the true nas itself. So this is running very specifically true nas 12 beta 2.1. So this is a you know as new as we have available to us I didn't switch to the nightlies as of September 5th 2020 and as I mentioned it's you know still in a beta the true nas core is but it's coming along quite well and this system Outfitted with 64 gigs of RAM to SFP plus's for 10 gig connectivity and to RJ 45 standard You know network interface for 10 gig connectivity. I want to do some further testing that will be after I do this video I just want to get the hardware video and kind of talk about the device itself But so far with that kind of connectivity Plenty of options on there now. I have over in the background here just something. I'm gonna run just to load this up I've got an ice cuz he connection on here I'm just loading up this to see some CPU usage on here and Pushed this to its limit now while I'm doing that I'll just jump over here and see what kind of I ops we're getting and refresh this page Well, it ramps up refresh And I've run this test a couple times once again to help put some load on this and build a bit of heat But we're seeing, you know about 18,000 IOPS from this base configuration that I have and just one VM running one Little script here, which will actually cancel so you with the script. It's just the FIO script Then I'm running on here just to generate some noise essentially This is not going to be any type of benchmark that we're gonna chest performance I'll do that a later date where I'll do some benchmarking on this device with these SSDs to see what kind of performance It's on there, but you know overall it's been really reliable and solid But that's kind of the nature of ZFS and true nas it's warning me that doing this is pushing some high usage on there But you can still get some pretty good performance even out of this lower and essentially Intel atom processor But other than that, I'm not gonna spend too much time dwelling on this I've got some other videos on true nas and true nas core and reviews and I have more videos coming and getting started with it But I've been really happy with the performance and of course just randomly unplugging the system ZFS as always has proved resilient against well oops is and Fault tolerant, which is really important Now one thing I will note is having these upgraded with the 64 gigs of RAM There's always a common misconception that you have to have a lot of memory It's beneficial to have a lot of memory the other one as I pointed out in my other videos Unlike the free nas mini with only eight gigs of RAM Still performs really really well as the things that we wanted to do with it such as the steam library and the plexon things I was running when you bump up to more memory that gives opportunity to cash things So we only have this one thing running on this so we've only got a little sliver most of this is free But we have this little sliver being used, but this starts getting exponentially used the more Things that can be put in memory. Well memories faster than the SSDs So it's beneficial but not required to have all that memory But it is a nice feature that they have the four slots in there So you can put this much memory in there because for a lot of IO intensive especially, you know Video editing you're repeating you're pulling the same assets all the time You're constantly queuing up the same things having that memory available to cash all those is really nice So that's it for as far as I'll talk about the software on this like I said more reviews coming of it I'll do a separate video on benchmarks, but overall even me pushing it with some ice-guzzy here Still nice and quiet even with the CPU getting loaded up even with it warming it up a little bit I haven't had any issues for the couple a couple weeks. I've been testing this box now Like I said targeted to small businesses targeted to a lot of people who say, you know I just want not to tinker with a bunch of hardware. I want a turnkey system that just works This is great for that. It's from my X systems. They spec'd out the hardware So you know what you're getting you know that it will just work out of the box And I think that's a great target for this. I mean, I know there's always someone going but you know I'm gonna mash out Adding it up and building myself. Absolutely. Those are people who want to tinker and want to spend their time doing that And it's great that that is still the same software You can run churnass on stuff you churnass core on stuff you built Or you can get it directly from IX systems as a turnkey device because you go Maybe you just want to get right to video editing and you want a great storage device for that Or whatever you want to store on here and other services. So my overall thoughts in this I really like the device. I like this whole lineup from IX systems Computing on the edge is kind of some of their target for this because we do need to have you know stuff That's not always in the cloud. It is very convenient to have these locals Especially as someone who edits videos that are currently being recorded and streamed to another churnass core system that I'm testing in the back Yeah, it's great to have all this locally. It's not as easy to stream it all online and then pull it back down to edit it I think these devices kind of fit that bill really good I'll leave links to all the things I discussed like to serve the home article and the announcements from IX systems But um, thanks And thank you for making it to the end of the video If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to LawrenceSystems.com fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com Where we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time