Okay, I will, because for you, a lot of this comes very naturally to you because probably from people from our generation we have, especially those people who have been on the internet throughout their life because for you, if you were part of discussion forums and those were in things in early 2000 or late 90s, that's where we got all our information from.  And the blogs were the best place to get. So I remember visiting middle stage and knowing everything about literature because Chandra Haas used to write that blog, Amit Verma used to write the same blog then he shifted to his uncut. And those were like the islands of you just wanted to go there and get maroon and get out of it and feel very good about it. Newsletter even then did not happen the way it is happening now. And because for us, it's like an easy transition. We have, it's like a blogging in a different form because giving links and remember like backlinks used to be so big if you would, and then you would give a shout out to other bloggers and you would have a list of people who you should read and so on so forth. But a lot of people like, if you remember a lot of people who were likely 10 years younger than me, for the first time when they came to the net, they only had Google sheets to work on. They only had Google presentations or email. They haven't ever accessed native clients. Now the same thing is happening with the newsletter. So we may also have to like, I would ask you questions because these guys who start a substack or who are going to start scroll stack for them, it's not newsletter actually it just like, Oh, there is an audience. There's a lot of influencers out there. There's a lot of audience which I can influence with my writing and I just need to write. So the question number one, which, which, and this is coming from a perspective of a very common layman person who wants to start who's interesting, who's interested in the newsletter and then he wants to think, Oh, what is the first thing which I should do? How should I scout because you had, you were reading Politico and then these guys shifted to Exios and then. So someone like you is always aware what you want to write and it just a matter of like sitting quietly for 20 minutes and then exactly know what you have to do. Now imagine if someone who wants to go to scroll stock, scroll stack or any other and wants to think of a topic and audience. What is the first step which you would suggest in terms of picking the audience and then thinking of a newsletter? What is the, what is your, what was your thinking process when you were doing political fix or daily fix or you subcontinental breakfast for that matter? Right. Yeah. So as to what you're saying earlier, it, it, yeah, for those who didn't grow up with the blogging world, it really, I didn't expand on this enough, but to me, the real space of book podcasting to some extent, although podcasts are harder to build and harder to grow in a certain way, but newsletters as well are a return to that form where it's a little more intimate. You're speaking a little more directly to your reader than you are on by writing posts that go up on Facebook or on a site or Twitter, which, which while a lot of people that we know on blogging basically moved to Twitter, it then became this really wild public space where you're not having engaging interesting conversations necessarily. But for those who are not familiar with that space, who like you said, came to the internet without seeing these, these wonderful little bubbles of interesting information where we built community and we spoke back to each other that that really felt intimate. I think that that is the word that I would suggest. Yeah, it can, it can be hard to look at the internet now and say, I can build a newsletter that that people will want to pay attention to. I think to the way it worked for me, of course, is a little different than it might be for someone who's not necessarily in the new space. But I think the, the ingredients are the same. Do you think there is a tremendous need or interest in the thing that you would like to see for me? It was like if, if the political fix already existed, somebody else was already doing it in a way that was useful, I would not have built it. Maybe I would have liked to write that sort of thing anyways, but part of the reason for wanting to build it was because I didn't see it out there in the space and I was interested in that sort of thing. And then, of course, this might be a bit hubristic or I'd be narcissistic, but I was like, there are probably other people out there like me who also are interested in the same sort of thing. So, so the first question is, would I read this, right? Is that, is there a compelling reason for me to put this product out? And, you know, the medium you can find based on that, I could have decided to turn it into a podcast. I could have turned it into a website itself. For various other things, as I said, we tried the Daily Fix as an article rather than a newsletter. So you find your medium, but specifically with, with newsletters, is it, would, is this something you would read? And can you think of a small community? It doesn't have to be large. That would be interested. And then the third, I think I would always say for that person who's thinking about starting a newsletter, she should think about what the objective is, is it that, you know, you just want to, you, you want a space for your writing? I absolutely think the newsletter space is sufficiently interesting right now and not so, you know, jump the shark, like I said, that, that you wouldn't be able to find a small community. It's almost operating like early to mid-blogging space at the moment, though it's, you know, jokes are already starting to surface that everyone has a newsletter now. But I think, I think it's still possible that if you think that you would read it, and that if you would read it, there's a small other community and, and you're clear on what you want out of it, that either you want, it's just a space for your writing, or you actually want to promote something about your career, your products, if it's something to do with your business or, you know, journalism. If you're clear in what it is that you expect out of it, I would put a few of these things as the first questions that you should answer before attempting to get into the space. Great. So when you started political fixancy, you also have the luxury of knowing your audience a little better than others because someone who is just starting out, I, I, I started with, because when I started this earlier, I would send you letters for the brand because I ran a marketing digital marketing agency. But when I started mine, the first 10 people were my friends and first 50 people were the friends of friends whom I had asked knowing that they, they can, and it was a street knife fight kind of a thing. Hey, do you want to read my newsletter? I'll send you the link or I'll include in the list. That was what I, I did, but coming because you were also at the same time, it was, it may also be difficult for you because you were accessing a huge number of audience. So though it seems usually easy that, hey, Rohan already has an audience, so his newsletter will already become one of the most read newsletters, but I'm sure that you would have diced the information, looked at the audience. How did you do it? Were there, were there surveys or you get some kind of data dumped to look at the kind of subscribers or readers you have, did scroll stacks, tech help you in any sort of way? So that would be interesting to know. You don't have to like diverse exact numbers or something, but how did you get to know the hang, how did you get the hang of the audience which you were wanting to reach out to other than the assumption you had? Yeah, good question. No scroll stack was being and is developed completely separately to scroll itself. And so I wasn't working with that at all. To me, like for example, one of it, one thing that I decided was that I would take a big subject that is popular for a certain amount of time. So the elections last year as a test balloon, right? This is something that people are going to pay attention to and there's an opportunity to grab people's attention. So otherwise your difficulty often is like you said, you either have to force people to read something, you have to really push hard to get them initially and then maybe that ball will start rolling. But I thought instead of taking fully that chance, why not take something big and do a pop up newsletter, essentially three months? I know I'm doing this, but if it's unsustainable and my assumptions are not panning out, then, you know, we abandon it or we change form accordingly. So one of it was the idea that it's attached to something specific that gives people a reason to even check it out in the first place. I had a Google form out there pretty early, initially just sent it to friends saying like, what it is that you would like to do or to see in terms of election coverage, what do you want us to do at scroll? And initially it was not even newsletter specific. It was like, what kind of reporting is well? What kinds of things are you missing from your media diet? And this was to friends initially. Then I put it on Twitter and asked other people to spread it around sent it to a bunch of students, I know, because I do some recruiting for scroll and said, OK, what are you guys, you know, journalists and students, like you find few places based on that idea of like, who's going to read this? I know an audience. I don't know. I'm saying I got the survey out to 200 people, not a huge number of people. But even that is is as you see people starting to say the same sorts of things, you get a sense of what they want. At the same time, what I found very interesting is that, of course, people might say something and then what they actually do with the newsletter is very different. So I was I had a very link heavy newsletter early on, and I moved more and more to full consumption inside the inbox without having to click through the link. Even if I had a link in early on, I would say, oh, read this great piece written by so and so writer from this place. And I wouldn't say anything more about it towards the end of my process. I started to realize people want that sense of completion within the inbox. And so any time I include a link now, I try and describe what's within it. So you might still want to click through. But if you've only read the newsletter and haven't clicked through, you still have a sense of what's going on. And that's something I got to know from actually paying attention to how people read because in service, they would say we want lots of links. We love them, but actually the way people were responding to and then, but when I when I moved to a very analysis heavy thing, people are saying we're missing the links. So what ultimately happened now with political fixes, that's why I do a Monday one, which is analysis and a Friday one leading into the weekend where people can collect a few more interesting links and click through to them over the weekend. But yeah, so the process is very is is a lot of trial and error. Ultimately, it's taking some assumptions, maybe giving yourself a high percentage shot, right? Like if I had not started around the elections, I would have had a harder time. But elections are a great time or take any big event in that sense or something that you think will work and say, even just the start of the year saying, like I'm going to start something new, like it might be a way to get people to pay attention and more likely to get that little click, even an answering a survey that could lead you to better informed decisions about how to make something. I think I also actually emailing people and asking them. I don't do too much and I don't know if other people might tell me what they think. I don't I don't tend to email people when they unsubscribe, because sometimes I find that a bit either creepy or a little, you know, and my newsletters. I think for super intimate newsletters, it makes sense doing that, but people who do subscribe and send in letters or responses, I say thank you for kind words. But then I always ask them, what else do you think we could do? What is it that you like about the newsletter, etc. So having that direct line of communication is what reminds me of blogging and also that is is crucial to keeping that sense of like this is an always an experiment, we're always playing around with what we're doing and seeing whether people like it or not. You're absolutely right. It's we had a huge audience on scroll. My audience on the newsletter is actually tiny compared to the scroll audience. And yet, in some ways, I like it in a very different way because scroll does not speak from the first person. My newsletter is from the first person. It is a more direct connection to me rather than to the news organization in a way. And and that again, it reminds me of those those great days when you're building community in a relatively smaller space. Yeah. So I mean, Financial Times has great legacy of like sending newsletters like rec and all and people read that and they have a huge following. And the very particular voice. So when you when you started this and when you did the so one of the funny things which I remember about doing these pilots, someone wrote on the Twitter that pilots never fail, but they never scale. So so I my question is coming from that point of your pilot work. It was around elections. It worked for you. So two things. One, how did it is are there any numbers which you can share? Is it in thousands and lakhs of subscribers which you reach out to and how did the growth? How did it happen over the period of time? Was there a lot of period and then there were spurts of growth because elections. But then the current government has never given you a chance not to be interested in politics ever. So has it been a exponential growth? And we expect another four years of exponential growth and then something like that. But ideas and do you categorize your audience? Like, do you have some personas in your mind that oh, one audience is like this, one audience group is like this and the other one is like this? Right. So a bunch of things there. I would say, yeah, that's an interesting point about pilots and scaling. Of course, maybe my experience is not comparable to many others because I have this huge advantage of a giant funnel at scroll. So for about six months, we didn't advertise the newsletter on scroll.in at all. It was basically just pushing it out on Twitter and the articles that were going up. And, you know, I was in the thousand space at that point. And we're still in the in the large thousands, honestly, on the newsletter with, you know, something like 35 to 40 percent of people opening every week, which is pretty high for a for a new space where about 17 is 17 percent of an open rate is average. Part of it is the question of a match between how big you want to be and how big you can be. Right. I might want to be to me, this is a 20, 30,000 newsletter, maybe a 50,000 at most. If I spend a lot of money really to acquire an audience because it's it's a bit geeky. It's a bit policy heavy. There's there's a bit of insidery stuff, which is something that I wanted to do. And for me, it was easier to make that decision to not have it be a hundred thousand or one like two like three like newsletter, which, of course, is not something that has happened in India yet, let's say, but also not even able to do that because we already have scroll and an article is always going to get read much more than a newsletter. So the aim for me was to have this be a more dedicated community that paid attention to what we were doing instead of trying to surf in a sea of wave or anything like that. And to eventually, if possible, monetize it or use that community to get them to subscribe to scroll or things like that. So for me, the objective was also pretty clear that I'm not trying to get to a massive audience because we have the massive audience. I'm trying to build a more dedicated community that is that's find value in my voice. Growth is pretty steady in part because we now advertise on on scroll. So really, it is about the funnel because if you're not able to get people to even figure out what this is, you know, it is going to be hard for you to spread. You'll spread in the twos and the threes and the tens and 20s initially. And that goes up to the hundreds, two hundreds when you're able to either advertise a little bit or find some form of circulation. One big thing I suggest to everyone is what we used to do back in the day with blog roles, which is basically if there are fellow folks who are doing interesting things, you do crossovers, right? You you cross post for them and you post on your own or you you guest post things like that, but you're basically giving their audience a chance to reach you and your audience a chance to reach them. That sort of thing for the political fix, constant iteration in looking at this scroll quite honestly, didn't have a clear newsletter aim because we're a really small news organization. And again, the first the first idea is always the site of building that and making sure it's it's sustainable. To me, this was more of a pet project that I wanted to see and and pull off entirely and pilot myself. I do think we could acquire a lot more users. If you know, people do that through, you know, paid acquisitions. People do that through Morning Brew style referral programs, giving people incentives to sign up and things. To me, it's mostly been organic plus recirculation on scroll.in. I would expect it to continue growing. We do see bumps at December. Very few people were reading lots of people on holiday, etc. And so it made me start to think of actually, let me take that into into mind and give January, let a bunch of early issues in January be recapped. So what happened in December? Look forward to the ways of getting people interested in it again. And then again, you start seeing that that graph climb quite a bit. You're right. This government, we've, you know, since the election fix, we've had what happened in Kashmir. We have had this NRCC, we've had riots in Delhi. And then we've had COVID and the lockdown and the migrant crisis. So in terms of interest, I have been, I don't know, lucky is not the right word for all of these awful things. But, you know, there hasn't been no lack of interest. And so that growth is also steady. I have focused a little more on who I want to pay attention to because I don't want to do lay political commentary. A big part of, for me, the political fix is indexing politics and policy. So a lot of what I'm trying to do is take something that is very political or newsy and give people a sense of the underlying depth in terms of policy by pulling in research, pulling in academics, talking about what is underlying that subject. And so I know it's going to be geeky and not go over a certain point.  To me, that's almost a more valuable audience than having one lack of people who occasionally click this open to see what's going on. They, you know, like I said, the Times of India has six or seven people on a daily newsletter that does a great job. And I'm never going to be able to compete with that. So I also find my niche and try and stick and develop that community really well. Great. So when you decided that this is my objective and this is the audience I want to get to, and I'll have a steady growth. Are there a couple of examples of a particular newsletter which really stood out for you or was that the moment that something clicked in your head and said, oh, wow, this is what I want to continue more or particular topic which is that, oh, I just discovered this because I came across this feedback. So a couple of examples which were like the aha moment for you. Right. Because writing a newsletter is a very dreary thing. You keep doing it like week after week or twice a week at times. It's just not as enjoyable as people think it is. But then there are those moments of very silent achievements which you count for yourself. Oh, I got this. Now I should do this. Couple of examples which really stood out for you. So I'll take you back a little bit on this. Early on with both the election fix and the political fix, I had a colleague, Nitya, who made these amazing illustrations. I can't show you the, my favorite one is Modi as a Superman and bullets of criticism of him bouncing off. But I bring this up to point out that one of the things was that was entirely extraneous to me, but might be important for people paying attention is that the imagery really matters, either picking great photos, finding ways to get people like no matter how good your writing is, you know, if it's the first time you're getting people to pay attention. Like, of course, you can go back to the political newsletter and like it's completely dry, it's gray. It's meant to be read on the phone and super easy and short. That works for political because that's what they are. But I would say for anyone who's looking to venture into the space, your newsletter has to look good. I had the privilege of having a great illustrator, a colleague who was able to make these fun illustrations and things like that. But even now, she no longer works with us. And I just spend a little bit of time on a free Photoshop alternative, honestly, to churn out not really illustrations, but produced photographs that go with the political fix, that try and tell a story a little bit. And I could say, aside from, you know, aha moments or things, I know people have responded to me saying that they saw it or they paid attention because of the photo or the illustration. So it's invaluable, making sure that you find a way for people to hook into your product. And this is, I mean, after six years of helping helm a digital outfit, I mean, I can tell you this is standard for digital products in general, right? My very macabre illustration of this is that it's a, you're a lifeguard and there's a sea of people out there who are all drowning. So which one are you going to pick? And the one who's able to get your attention first is that, right? Like that's what you're trying to do on Facebook or Twitter if that's where you're sharing or on Google News. And so having a good headline and a really nice image matters ultimately, at least early on, as you're trying to get people to pay attention. I find, what I found early on, I interviewed a couple of people not knowing whether folks would pay attention. And immediately, I mean, part of the thing, like I said, is that the political fix is coming from my voice. It has first person in it, although we don't like to use the I much in scrolls copy or even in the political fix, but you know it's coming from me, it's a little more conversational and chatty. And I got more comfortable with that over the course of the newsletter compared to my sort of reporters or editors voice. And you can do that easiest when you're talking to someone. And so we interviewed someone. In fact, I did my first interview at in August of Constantine Xavier who's a think tank scholar after the audience wrote in, somebody wrote in saying, this is someone I think you should be talking to. And I really enjoyed that sort of thing. So when I just had my first couple of Q&As which were based off books that were coming out, I started asking people who they would like to hear from. And I started getting a lot of response. And it really surprised me early on when I asked for responses on like, what do you think about this subject? What do you make of this thing that's happening in the world? Very few people were actually responding. But when I asked maybe a more simpler thing like, who else would you like to hear from? I got a lot of responses. And I think, again, centering people at the core of your stories or what you're talking about, like fellow, whether it's colleagues, you're the subjects of what you're writing about, always making sure the stories about humans that tends to work a lot. And I would have to think about, like I said, for better or worse, it's been an extremely newsy year. And so each one of those things has given us a pretty good bump. A part of it is also that the Indian media space is shrinking to some extent and people able to say certain things like, we're able to write, I think, intelligently about the protests that happened last year or about the riots. And that really gave us a lot of interest. But in between, in January, like I said, when I saw this dip in December, I decided, okay, let me talk to the rest of my team and get each person in my team to send in a prediction for what they think, not 2020, but the decade of 2020 going forward will be for the new space and politics in India. And just getting these voices, actually a lot of people loved that piece, which was not my voice at all. So take what your mileage may vary on that that they really enjoyed other voices there. But I got a lot of great feedback from having a bunch of different people. And so you don't need your own team to do this, right? You can ask friends and things like that and get other voices into your space. Mixing up formats, I find works really well. Of course, one is testing out formats to see which ones people like week on week, but then also mixing up occasionally having a list of occasionally pulling an outside voice, occasionally doing a more graphical thing. I think is really what keeps people paying attention. And those are the ones that I found have got the best response. So now do you have a style guide, a Vegas style guide of sorts in your head? Or do you have a lens like I was listening to Rafat, who is founder of Skift, a travel platform. And he in fact built his first entire company on a blogging platform. And so he suggests and a couple of other people also suggest that, oh, like people from DigiDay they suggest, oh, I have a lens. So Rafat's lens is marketing strategy and technology. So anything which is happening in the field of travel, he will filter it through these three lenses for the larger audience. Do you have, and obviously there are style guides. Like I, when I think of a newsletter, I'm constantly thinking of like very basic thing that one part of it should inform, one part of it should educate, one part of it should connect my readers with other readers like they should identify. And the last is help them grow their businesses because I'm writing a business newsletter. And my lens is largely industry, businesses, industry and economy. Any issue anywhere in the world impacting these three small businesses in these three realm, I have to write about it. So do you also have a Vegas? It does not have to be like very formal. I mean, like Economist has a very formal style guide. This is how you will use. These are the headings which you will use. Bloomberg has a lead. This is how you have to like write the first paragraph. Do you have some rules, rule book or have you come up with something? Or do you just naturally just write something? So scroll has a style guide for the website. And so a lot of the stuff like, and some of it is key in what I said early on, which is that we try to assume that nobody has previous knowledge, right? I can't just introduce even something as common as CBI or AIADMK, we used to fight with our editor all the time having to actually say all India, Anna, Dravid and Munitra Karagam for every, like it's a lot of space. But the idea is to not assume that your reader knows what you're talking about. So even if you put that whole thing, you also put a comma and say, you know, one of the big political parties in Tamil Nadu in the south of India, et cetera. Some of my readership is quite international. I have a lot of academics who use my newsletter to pay attention to me in the States. And so I keep that dictum of always making sure that it's accessible. So while the full scroll style guide doesn't always apply to the political fix because I speak more within an authorial voice rather than a brand voice, the simple suggestion that was given to me back in journalism school in America and I find this, this is the way I write, which is, is it an interesting story? Imagine telling your mom this at the breakfast table. Now, the reason why the breakfast table is that there's lots of other things competing for your interest in the morning. And so this has to be interesting enough. But why your mom? Because you're not going to throw in swear words. You're not going to be profane. You're going to keep it interesting enough. You're not going to assume she knows the youth lingo and it makes me sound old to say the word youth lingo. But the idea is that for me, writing is best unless you have a very specific style and a writerly style is best when it sounds like you're telling someone an interesting story.  Have I kept them hooked? Of course, some things you change to make sure it's interesting on the page. But that's the base style, right? In terms of formatting, like I said, I've kept trying to alter that. I learned to not put in links that are, like in the early days of blogging, you would have this thing where you'd, it would almost be like a Simpsons episode where you'd put in a link that's really a joke, but you have to click it to get that joke. And over time, I was like, I can't do that because people are not clicking. And so it's almost wasted space, although we have unlimited space. So I learned to keep everything within the inbox and then keep a very specific space, which is my linking out space where I tell people, like if you enjoy the links, you come to that section, but everything else you should be able to read within the inbox. In terms of a lens, the political fix is quite clear. We keep you informed. So anything, it's not meant to be comprehensive. You're not going to be on top of everything that's happening in India from week to week. For that, you do daily newsletters, right? Like you go to something like the Time Stop 10 or there's a couple of new ones. I'm forgetting the names now. Alex Michoudry has just started a new one. That's pretty good. There's the- Splainer. Splainer, that's right, yeah. And there's a few other ones that do that really well. Or you could just, or you could read Scroll Not In, right? The website is pretty comprehensive, but what I'm trying to do here is to give you analysis of what we think is the most interesting or important topic. I'm not always picking like for about three months, the most interesting thing was COVID. So I wasn't doing COVID every week, but maybe finding an interesting aspect. And some of this, because scroll is so small, some of this is not just the DNA of the political fix. It's also the DNA of Scroll Not In, which is that I'm interested in federal subjects. I'm interested in things that question the relationship between the citizen and the government. I'm interesting in how politics interact with policy. So not, I don't find useful the regular chatter on evening back and forth between a spokesperson of this side and that side, but more importantly, okay, the migrant crisis is huge. What data can I pull out to give you a deeper understanding? So for me, the lens is partly I have to inform you. Like I can't pick the random thing that is interesting me this week. It has to to some extent be the thing that's topical or interesting and it has to be accessible. So even if I'm writing about the complex issue of GST compensation, which I think is fascinating, you probably don't, you know, I have to make sure it's accessible. I find a frame and analogy, something interesting that introduces you to that subject. And the final thing is I try and get some depth. So to me, like find, use basically use news as a way to get your attention and then divert that. Like it's almost a sleight of hand. Divert you to reading about more boring geeky, but more important, you know, policy stuff. Great. And I mean, just like just final three questions. You can take as much time as you want or as less as. In fact, there are like four things. One, we want to know a bit about the tech part of what you use. Do you use off the shelf tech solution or how did you start or you had your team building it for you? Like how do you access those analytics? Where do you get those numbers from? Is there a, so you don't have to disclose. Exactly, but some part of it. Then is there a plan in your plan that you access social media in a particular way to spread the growth or increase the growth of your audience and then we also want to know we also want to know one book which you want to, which won't, I mean, this is a very difficult thing for a journalist to say or just read this one book and this will help you. But think of like someone who is starting out and wants to like brush up on writing or brush up on understanding something. Like one book, I will not name that book now. Maybe if I name that, maybe you want to say about the same book. And lastly, when I started reading when I started following you on Twitter in the early days, earlier days when probably you came to India whenever you used to tweet a lot about music. I remember happening in Delhi, classical music if I'm wrong, if I'm not right. There was Delhi events and there was Rohan's Twitter feed which would tell, hey, this classical music performance is taking place there. So yeah, so that last bit, do you also like put that bit of personality into a newsletter or not once in a while? So these are like, yeah. I'm gonna go back to the resources one here only because I would say for those who are like are super interested in this stuff, all of these places. I'll flag Dan Oshinsky for example here. Dan ran the newsletters for the New Yorker for a little while. He's working somewhere else at the moment. I can't remember where, but he runs a monthly Google document with a bunch of resources and interesting things about newsletters and he will respond to your email extremely promptly no matter how big like his work is. He does actually consultancy for newsletters as well. So like he, I think it's his business as well, but he's extremely prompt in replying to things and he's got great collections of newsletters and it's called not a newsletter because he puts it out on a Google Doc. It's about newsletters, but it's a collaborative Google Doc that comes every month and I would highly recommend that for all questions about tech, about analytics, about funnels and how to convert and so on. But specific to scroll honestly, because our core thinking at the end of the day is on the site, we're focusing on that and really the newsletter is something that scroll stack was being built and it's built outside. It's not part of scrolling in that sense and it's being built outside and it has lots of fascinating things that would be relevant here, but Ritesh will talk about those next week. But for me, we started off on MailChimp using simple analytics. I of course have the Google Analytics of scroll.in and I know where my readership is and I can look over that cross section a little bit. We also have subscribers and contributors on scroll.in and many of those are newsletter readers. The political fix is not our only newsletter for a while, we ran a newsletter for our magazine section, for also for our sports section and we had a very popular one called Books and Ideas run by Arunava Sinha who is the best Bengali translator and really it's incredible to me how much work he gets done because he works at scroll and also teaches at Ashoka and also trunklets books.  I was interested in it simply for people who are paying attention or interested in this, Substack is free, right? Until you're trying to monetize it relative to MailChimp where beyond a certain point an audience you need to pay for, Substack at the moment and who knows if this is scalable whether they'll keep this forever but Substack if you're not charging people for it is completely free no matter how big your list is which is a useful thing. I honestly don't know what the specifics are for scroll stacks and you'll have to ask Ritesh about that. Yes, yes, yes. But yeah, so that's the simple tech reason. I pay attention to the simplest analytics. I'm not very complex on this front. I look at the open rate which I think is important. To be fair MailChimp had better ones than Substack did MailChimp would give me a sense of people whether people are repeat openers where they're coming from and so on Substack is much more simple in just telling me how many people are opening week to week and I would have to look more specifically to see if it's the same people opening week to week. So it's not as complex in its analytics but I think it does the job for anyone who's starting out. And beyond that I honestly rely a lot more on direct feedback and I try and keep, it's not on every newsletter and I haven't done it well for the last few months but usually I try to keep a Google form open with three or four questions in an open space in the newsletter at all times so that anyone who wants to give me feedback at any given moment is able to click through and just tell me what they think and it has genuinely informed how I have changed formats, tried different things on the site. I think that covers like all of these things here I have read through all of them and they really are full of great stuff. I mean understanding a funnel, trying to figure out how to keep loyalty. For anyone who's interested in the news game, one of the big struggles for journalism organizations over the last decade has been to get readers to pay directly for news and what has become conventional wisdom now is that simply the best way of getting people to subscribe by paying money to a news organization is if they're accessing you through email because email is a little more intimate, it's a little more relevant to you than maybe finding someone on Facebook, Twitter or going directly to the site. So lists have become extremely important for news organizations as ways of just databases for which to convert subscribers and so newsletters are crucial that way and growing them is extremely important. As regards the book, was the question a book that you think is specific for writing specific to newsletters? I don't think I have something. Not for the newsletter, yeah, for writing. Yeah, for any book which comes for the audience like you're talking about or who wants to do newsletters and have some idea because it will include a bit of writing, a bit of planning with our understanding how this, basically it's journalism in a different form and people like me, like I'm not a journalist. So when I picked up William Zincer's on writing style that helped me a lot because he kind of took up, so I was always very conscious about my grammar that I'm always wrong, my pronunciation is not right. But then he said, no, that's not, you have to worry about less, you don't have to worry about everything, just focus on these four things. So that kind of helped me. Yeah, sure. So I'll just take you back to these suggestions which are the newsletters that I really love strategy. I think there's a really good job of it and money stuff just to get a sense of, and Vox Sentences is a great newsletter that's link-based basically, it's explaining the news. The book I'll pull out, I haven't read this in a long time but I remember it being extremely influential for me which is Stephen King's on writing. Stephen King is the horror writer, right? He's not someone who I think of as being classically a high art in that sense. And I believe he wrote this book which is part memoir, part guide to writing. Soon after he had his famous accident in the main way, it was a life-threatening accident. I read it a long time ago, maybe a decade ago but it stuck with me because it was both extremely interesting as a memoir but also really a good guide. It made you want to start writing immediately after you're done with it. He doesn't mystify the process, he doesn't make it seem like this magical thing that just emerges from your brain. He talks about it as more like methodical. You have to get to it every day. These are some clever ways of putting your words onto paper and cleaning them up afterwards. It's not necessarily good for digital or good for newsletters or good, but it's good writing tips and a very readable book. So Stephen King's on writing, I would suggest that. Perhaps it's only a book they haven't made a movie about. I'm sure they'll documentarize it. Was there something at the very end? Yes, one question. I asked that, you had already covered that in the answers. A bit about music, why not a newsletter, a sub-stack or a scroll stack because that would be sacrilege when I say sub-stack to you guys. Why not a music newsletter from you, someone who can like, I started reading but then I've been listening to classical music and Delhi events is a very messy place to go and find out what's happening. Sadly, it's really, I have a random book suggestion there for you if you're interested. It's called Ragan Josh by Shila Dhaar, this beautiful book about music in Delhi in which I believe Bade Ghulam Ali Khan refuses to go to the AIR studio because he's afraid if he sings to a recording studio, it'll take his voice out and he'll never get it back. Beautiful book. My answer is if you could kindly ask the news cycle to quieten down a bit, I'd be happy to do that sort of thing but it's been a bit relentless since the elections. We have not had a little moment of quiet on that front. There was a time in my life that I thought I would be a pop culture writer and not someone into hard politics or news and I really enjoy even maybe bridging that space between what is popular on Twitter but also finding classical, getting people interested in those kinds of things. So it fascinates me but honestly, it's purely a function of time at the moment. I mean, also over the last year, I saw the first episode of this thing called Bandish Bandits on Amazon which is about classical music and the first episode was really bad in my opinion but I still sat through the concert at the end of it and I was just like, it's been so long since I've heard live music and it's something I really miss but yeah, there's not been much time. Honestly, that's the only way but I like Twitter and Instagram which I have as private as these spaces where I can be online without always having to be on top of the news although I don't do it as much out like from my side on Twitter. I have a lot of people that I follow who are into random things like birding and dinosaurs and music that are interesting to me but they're not necessarily part of my work or my day to day. The other side of it is that when your day job I guess is writing and thinking of these things, it's hard to have a side gig that's also writing. I much prefer now like so while I would love to do something on the side about music or something else, I think I would attempt to take the tabla up again at some point or something to that effect rather than another thing that involves writing. Oh yes, maybe I don't know. Like releasing a list or two about, because I follow coffee very closely and then there are roasters who release their music and their playlists once in a while and then their take is totally different than what I usually listen to. And then I really feel that there should be some like Music Room was a book which kind of told stories like Kulam Ali Won Singh and unless he ate kebabs because he said that that's what my voice comes from and so on so forth. I wish that part is also kind of, I mean people like you and I who have other interests should also do something about it. Just have a word with the powers that be to quieten down the news cycle and be happy to. Great, so that's pretty much Samsa part today's session and it was a great session. I really love talking with you. There are some great tips I will share in a summary and I will also share the summary with you and the audience. Zainab, I think we are done with the today's session. Thanks again for joining. Yes, and you might want to just put a plug again for next week's session, which is again. Yes, oh I'm sorry about it. So next week we have Ritesh who is one of the founders of Scrollstack, which people at times call Substack for India, but it has solved the solution such as earning money by using, by writing and doing creative stuff. You can write it pretty much anything and then ask money from the audience. Next week we'll discuss the tech part of it in terms of how we can create content, how we can earn money. That's next year we'll put it out on social media and more details will go out as we do that. Thanks everyone for joining. Thanks Rohan. It was great talking to you.


hey guys welcome again to snow break containment zone and the update just came out we have a patch i think installed for a short maintenance so we have here compensation rewards don't forget to redeem these so compensation for a first time pass rewards in main story they actually um upped the rewards for the main story which is actually good news for everyone this is very very nice news for everyone and also there is a maintenance compensation so for those who are still needing of recruitment shits or tickets you have this you can actually pull this in the i think in the beginner banner for those who haven't finished the beginner banner but also you can pull this in jute's command okay so the beginner beginner banner was here if you still need those 10 then you could definitely get your five star selector ticket at this point so again either the beginner or this one so guys before we proceed further i'd like to you know ask for your support and if you could support the channel by subscribing and putting a like to this video please do because this helps my channel a lot and we move on to the subject at hand so today we're going to be talking about team build team building team composition all teams okay so let's go through um the teams here that i've set up already so okay so these are the teams that i some of them i used um fully some of them i used partially but these are my recommended teams but before we go to the recommended teams okay so why do you need to do a team building you need to assess effectiveness effectiveness in terms of dps effectiveness in terms of how they play together how they play off each other skills especially the supports synergy again combos there are some skills that you can pull objects together then do damage to those so that is courtesy of akasha um akasha kaguya and i think it's freesha who can pull things together i think it's also her um her five star five star five star akasha and five star freesha will actually pull then do damage in a circular motion so you can actually experiment with a couple of combos and also you can experiment with with your team and all because again no no three um i believe that no three are going to be your only team you're gonna have any you're gonna have um subs that you want to prepare and sub in for some special circumstance like healing or if you want a a shotgun wielder to bust up some tank or tanky units then you might want to sub in those if you're not built in a shotgun user so again not not your core is not you're gonna be all be all team so some of them may not be applicable so going back to the teams that i'm suggesting this team i actually use this uh when i was starting out day one this is my core team day one so we have life here as my primary i love to use sub machine guns i'm sorry so it's really a preference and this is effective uh you have here akasha which is doing her knife thing so clearing out in front then you also have here um feni which clears surrounding or deals damage to surround the unit so this is my core the one that i am alting for this one is either alternate for that lineup is chen shing because of healing because of the additional mechanics she does in terms of the pod um deployment and the consistent damage and also the one that i used for this one is yaw so yaw was either my healer sniper or chen shing was my healer additional damage without getting hit so this is my first team guys you can actually use this this took me to up until i get i got my first um orange tier so this is a very effective team second team is one that i used um just to test out this is if you want to have a main as a shotgun user it's gonna be feni so all of them by the way the first lineup in this one are four star lineup so you have feni up close you have um you have akasha again for dealing multiple damage with her daggers uh enemies in front then you have yaw here for sniping up at the back because both of these are mid and short range um short range heroes so definitely you'll need a sniper to snipe at the back plus she does a lot of healing this one my backup for this one is going to be uh life and freesha so this is so live four star and backup is actually freesha so you will need backups for either the mid mid going long if you need more adjustments to your lineup so again no three are going to be your all be a team you will have swap in at least at least one or two other characters okay going to the third team this one for those who love pistols actually i rave about pistols because pistols have two options they have a come in a magazine of six or twelve so obviously if they come in twelve they have less damage if they come in six they have higher damage but you have to be accurate but most probably you'll be using pistols in in the close up to mid range but i like using pistols especially with akasha she's fun really especially in close quarters this lineup is actually very effective so what i did i placed um life here and akasha here for support so this lineup i rarely used but this is a fun lineup the backups for this lineup is going to be fenny and yao so if you need more flexibility fenny and yao fenny and yao four star will do the trick but my last lineup that i'll be sharing with you is the current lineup that i'm using this one i could explain further more detail because this one this lineup for me is the most table that i've had in a long time in play testing so life of course is going to be your main life is i'd like to prioritize her frost wolves so leveled her neurotics for that one but i also like her ultimate which i rarely use but definitely the frost wolves ability is going to let her shine for her five star variant that is why i chose her as the primary for this girl akasha it's moon halo is my top usage for her as support so she she does most of the support for me i often use this skill because what i do is as as enemies approach so if they're still very very far i would use the support skill of akasha kaguya then go with the frost wolves of this girl so frost wolves when they come near so that is usually my game plan for for this lineup um very very fun to use as they go near as enemies go near and if and if i want them to scatter i would use the support skill of yaw so the obsidian this one i would use the support skill of yaw but yaw is my primary damage dealer especially for bosses especially for big ones that are easy to target and also easy to you know um she packs a punch really um no understating her abilities but again these are you know these are my primary team make primary core so usually when when life it has low health i go next with with akasha kaguya then last would be yaw the five star this is a five star version team my subs here if i oops let's go back my subs here if i need more healing would be chen shing so chen shing i use her really more for healing for this team not so much for other abilities and i also use freesha so freesha is supplementary um if i want to if i i mentioned a while ago the combo that that uh that is in place so you have freesha freesha five star then you have chen shing five star then you have kaguya five star so the combo that i mentioned that pulling them in lowering lowering the resistance and dealing damage to the center those three i can use in that combo so again it really depends on on what you want to do on what the stage calls for this team is fun try it out i can't recommend other teams main teams yet because for me at this point uh at five star they are really really really efficient uh you cannot find a better team unless probably if i get fenny cornet the five star fenny i probably use her in this team as well um at this point the four star fenny um i i don't want to use her with this team because this team has sufficient dps already so um at this point uh this is it for me up until when i could change this team probably in the near you know in the next few days next few weeks but for now um this is it so guys if you have suggest suggested teams comment down in the comment section below um i hope this this you know this guide help uh team building again is about effectiveness synergy combos and if they're applicable in the stage that you are using them so again please be flexible enough to interchange your teams whether you are using mostly four star or using five star so and also don't forget to mix and match four star and five star because at this point i assume that you guys have two orange tiers already one from the selector and one from the beginner banner so thank you again guys stay safe take care this is the warden and i'm out here


My name is Jeff Regan. I get ten a day and expenses from a detective bureau run by a guy named lion Anthony J. Lyman They call me the lion's eye With Jack Webb as Jeff Regan investigators stand by for hard-boiled action mystery and thrilling adventure in tonight's story of the man in the door Well, this is the way it started The lion called about four o'clock that afternoon said he wanted to see me down at the office I argued a while finally told him I'd be there Melody was sitting in front of her typewriter when I came in putting a new coat of paint on her nails She handed me a blank contract with no dates filled in jerk the thumb toward the lion's dent. I went in Regan, I'm glad you got here. What do you know about architects? They draw things I know that much, but what about bits and all that stuff? Well, I figure out what a building is gonna cost don't they go on if whoever's paying for the building likes what they write down And they're hired a couple of architects maybe three or four make bid I suppose so low man gets the job Why our clients and architect named Debbie Hayes office in the Park Central building He thinks maybe the bank is handling his bit might try to put something over on them banks don't do things like that He thinks maybe a guy who works at the bank might be taking Doe to shove his bit under the counter Well, why didn't you say that in the first place because I'm saying it now Haines wanted to look into it Who do I see Haines first when he talked to him on the phone? Don't we'd have to have a contact and retain it before we did anything that figures So hop over there and find out what's what and make him sign that contract and get a check Anything else make sure it's certified and call me if you run into any trouble Dudley Hayes Architect Park Central building had an office on the ninth floor When I went in a girl with hair that figured to be blonde right down to the roots pulled off her glasses and put out her cigarette And she kind of he's out of her chair behind that death moved toward me like a panther looking for a meal My Call Nothing I can do about that Mr. Lion said he was sending us one of his best man He always said that I Think he met it this time. He's an awful liar lady Dorothy no fit The name of the tree both What's yours Jeff Regan Well, we know each other. That's nice. I came to see Haines. He wants me to look into something for him. I know Expecting him. I know Well, I Hope you had to look into a lot of things for Haines No This is his office, isn't it? But he spends most of his time in 902 into the hole makes his blueprint up there. I'll take you You are Oh Well, we started down the hall We got about 10 feet from the frosted glass door at the end we both stopped We were looking at the outline of a big man behind the door both of us expected him to open it and walk out Oh, he came out. All right, but he walked right through it He's been shot. Oh, you know him my boss. Hey, it was your boss lady. He's dead Lieutenant Salvatore Wendetti central homicide details showed up about eight minutes after I called He had his whole goon squad with him and a couple of guys in double-breasted suits from the district attorneys of it They roped off the entrance to the building got hold of the elevator operators and the man who runs the cigar stand and asked some questions Then Wendetti looked at what was left to Haines and started yelling into a phone My fingerprint boy get through yeah, okay, sis. Where's the guy live at the Biltmore hotel? Where's his wife? We didn't have one. What do we tell we didn't have any family, so no one's gonna cry Well, that makes it easier Reagan was he our client? No, nobody's a client until he signed a contract Sally, but you were bringing him a contract to sign him Then you could do something for him. What I didn't talk to him sis Mr. Haynes have made an estimate on a little office building in Beverly Hills He thought that a man named Adler at the bank might be taking money from someone to hold his bed He wants an investor get a look into it. Why do you think that I don't know you work for him? Well, I don't know everything neither do I hot isn't it? Who's Adler? Oh, that's the name who else who else architects who else was making a bit. I don't know that now. Where are we at Kelly? Yeah, I named Adler at the Bank pick them up and have them down in my office in half an hour What do you want to do about reporters Sally tell them to go jump in the lake? Yeah? Oh, he stole my name wrong. How long you two know each other our ice. What do you mean by that? That's nice didn't hear any shots. No, we didn't tell me more about the bed What's better to set up for the bank handles the money who says yes who says no the bank but but what the contractor? Usually tells them who to take. Ah, who's in who's that in this case a contract in Long Beach? His name is George Cantrell. Hmm. I'll say this to you Regan when you get mixed up in anything You're starting to get mixed up with a good-looking people. I'm not mixed up in anything. What do you say sis? She's smart girl Regan. Hello, honey won't be half again. Her son guy got himself killed on it not on her Regan, I'll tell her why says hello says come out the dinner sometime. Oh Sis How much that contract worth on the building in Beverly Hills about 40,000 dollars profit. No overall break it out Mr. Haynes would have said about $12,000 if he's got I know some guys have killed for a dime Sam win daddy I'm still at the Park Central building get off the long beach and partial contract the name George Cantrell and Find out what architects were making good on some stuff. He was gonna put up Beverly Hills Yeah, get the name. Okay, that about doesn't let's go. Am I snowing what have to take you down Just can you do that?  Oh, what are you? He's a fire standard with a bulletin lawyer Well, I do go with him. I don't want to spend the night in jail. I just worked from his day. Uh-huh. No phone calls. This is a murder case Well, get me a lawyer something jazz. You know a lawyer. No Wait, yes, I do his name Dave Henderson. He lives at 1648 glam on place. We can probably tell him I'm in trouble Yeah, Jack Sally. She didn't make a phone call. I like it too. Well, look, he may not be able to do anything for you tonight It's almost sex, but you're famous as possible. Yeah Tell him I'm scared Well, I stayed there and phone the lion told him what had happened We got mad and yelled something about me being a jinx on all our clients and then he hung up so I went through the classified telephone directory under attorneys and Henderson it was a Ben a George a Joe a William, but no Dave Henderson So I drove out to the address that she'd given me was a blue apartment house four blocks west of Vermont over by the Coliseum Somebody was cooking hamburger somewhere Somebody was all worked up over a ballgame on the radio.  I'm with the ball game. I'm looking for a man named Dave Henderson a lawyer So what somebody told me he lives in this apartment house. Who told you that a lady? Ha does he live here? Looking at the mailbox. No name you cop private type Does he live here Jory lives here? Where and of the whole 106? Thanks.  Is he with his kind of friends? What does that mean? You're young I got a driver's license. Let me tell you something don't go knocking on no doors and hear of all games Remember that yeah, I'll remember and you can tell them testy booger to talk about one 8 to 5 coming into the first half of the night, then this has been some ball come on in It's unlocked your name Dave Henderson. Yeah, who wants to know My name is Regan. I'm a private investigator with the International Detective Bureau. I'm sure I don't need one Look, I'm not looking for work. I'm looking for you What you said was the Regan. That's right Regan Regan Regan learned that just an hour ago cute. I'm at a friend of yours today Dave Henderson never had a pet He said she was a friend of yours, but I didn't say with the friend of hers. Hey, who are we talking about anyway, Dorothy Nolan? How is Dorothy not so good That's your word detective. I am sound like a doctor Look, you sound like a guy with a chip on his shoulder Sound like a lot of things. You're trying to be tough. No wonder you aren't in the telephone directory. I'll just skip that She said you were a lawyer. I say I drink too much. I haven't seen you drinking have you She wants you to get in touch with her a man.  She doesn't want to spend the night in jail. Who does? That's why she doesn't see them together He wants me to get her up something like that. Who sent me the case down there detective named Wendetti. Yeah, and where do you come in? Well, they didn't give her that one phone call man your sense What if I said no Now that's your business You know why she asked you to see me? Because I'm a guy she knows And every guy knows a little bit about the There's a little something for her. Have you met him like that lately? Sometimes Checking what? She's pretty good with the works I was just right for the job Yeah, just right Everything's just right She can make you do a lot of things you don't want to do Wait till you see on a painting salute at something Well, they aren't wearing them in the county jail Okay, I'll find phone Wendetti and find out what her bond is. But this is a murder case. There's no bond on this you know that Well, it depends how you handle it. I'll think of something. Yeah, I'll bet you will You don't like each other much, do we?  Nope I am Manweek Have a good time Did I say Haynes was shot? No You didn't say a thing See you somewhere people Well, I stopped by Mousseau Franks and had the special and then I went on home I tried to make a couple of calls But when daddy was out and the death sergeant thought I was a reporter and he wouldn't tell me a thing about Dorothy Nolan while I was sitting there the phone began jumping around on the hook Reagan? Yeah This is me, where you been? I called your place 20 times and I've called her once Well, I've been busy seeing a lawyer What do you need a lawyer for? You aren't married Somebody else needs one Who? Dorothy Nolan, that blonde who worked up in Haynes office when daddy's holding her Good, I want you to get on and see her What for? We can still make something on this thing if we play it smart When I talked to Haynes on the phone this afternoon I told him I wanted a certified check So what? So that means there's a check for a hundred bucks lying around his office somewhere And it's made out to international Look, he's dead remember? Everybody dies, don't worry about it We weren't even hired We had a verbal contract We had nothing That check's no good to anybody but us We didn't do anything for him Well, buy him some flowers Now hop down to the pokey and see that daemon find out where that check is We can't do that I talked to Harry Procedo and he'll give us a lien to get in I was still there but I wasn't listening to the lion I was looking at a skinny little man with one leg I don't ask me how he made it inside my door, he was just there Propped up on a pair of crutches swaying back and forth Watching you with a couple of sick gray eyes It was a full of water, you'd think they were gonna float right out of his head All at once he went down like a busted sugar sack He'd been shot twice through the neck with a small caliber gun 25, 32, I don't know I found a dozen razor blades in one pocket And two dozen sector shoelaces to go with him There wasn't anything that told me his name But there was a picture inside a shirt pocket One of those things that you have taken in a penny arcade You know in front of bony pasteboard props Well, a man with one leg was looking out from between a pair of painted angels wings The guy standing next to him who was smiling up at the halo Was the same man that I'd seen that afternoon An architect named Haines A man who needed the private detective A man who walked out a glass door and then dropped dead And the one printed word above that picture stuck like a wart on an egg That said happy land Tonight's adventure with Jeff Regan Investigation Here is a special and important message to every businessman listening To every businessman regardless of the size or the type of his business Gentlemen, do you realize that the schools of this community Help you every day that you're in business?  In there You really want to get your picture taken?  I run the picture placed in the hot dog place tonight Freep out in the morning Oh, I wish I had better brains in the merry That slob and get myself stuck in a cheap dump like this All right You remember taking this picture? How would I know I take a lot of pictures? Well, come on, look at it All right, all right Yeah, I took it That's what sold you When? How do you think I am? Can't remember what night it is Every time a pair of drunks comes in And wants your pictures taken together We'll try to remember, will you?  I thought you said you met him once Well, we weren't introduced, I guess, madam Who is he? Dusty Rhodes Works with circuit What circuit? Cesson mains, stem Business section What kind of business? Dusty handle the razor blade and shoelace traffic He hates pencils What did he do when he wasn't working? What does anybody do when out and got loaded? Go on And you don't know him very well for a friend I'm not gonna know, I'm not getting Dusty in trouble talking to you like this Nobody can get him in trouble anymore, lady What do you mean?  Seashore hotel Oh, Jesus, I'm sick Other than Seashore, kid, there's too many types of people Good and bad, just out of the pokey No bits of night for trancers, 150 a week for solid citizens And sign and register, it's a law I'm not looking for a room Then you're wasting my time, brother, my beer's getting warm Look, I'm a private investigator, my name's Regan I liked you before you said them two words, brother, but you have soured me Private investigator means private eye and it all means cop And you are not welcome, not blow I'm trying to find out something about a man named Dusty Rhodes We do not ask questions and we do not give answers, not blow I was totally lived here You'll find me conglis, brother Now blow Did you know him? During the last five years, I have acquired 85 pounds and a very bad heart All right, have you and the ally right now Oh, yeah, sure you will Here Abraham Lincoln was a very fine man and he took a very fine picture I seem to have found my tongue, brother Well, it be But he was wrong for a starter, huh? Disallowable and punishable by fine and imprisonment End of the hall, turn the bench, let's go to the right Thanks Well, I don't know what I expected to find there Outside of more razor blades and more shoelaces With a little room full of dirty white curtains and a wire bed that sagged in the middle I was standing there watching a neon sign advertised beer A block down the street when I thought I heard somebody behind me Whoever it was had been drinking bad whiskey when he was still pretty good It landed a quarter of an inch above my right ear and I piled up in a lamp A chair and a picture full of water Five berries get you a look brother, but it doesn't get you a room Besides, it's already taking on the beds over there and I come on Yeah, you didn't go to sleep brother. You was not to sleep I apologize Why the games? Who came in after me?  My name's Sam Preacher Brother, I'm very sure Maybe he was waiting for me I don't generally ask him, but the question is this Why? Oh, I don't know Unless That's a matter of something, isn't it? Just a picture You can get lots of pictures You didn't see anybody That makes the third time brother the answer is still negative Okay, okay Then let's blow buddy, huh? Luke, this is Regan Yeah, I did You got him there? Hey Yeah, I'll bet They've said it All right, give it to me Give you a long name Give me one long name Die of A misspent life Hehehe When daddy know this Well, you aren't finished yet, Luke Baby A guy with one leg dropped dead in my place a couple hours ago It's after 11 I'm sorry, Luke They connected Yeah Murder Yeah I left the homicide office They told me she'd been released about 10 o'clock They said a lawyer named Henderson had put up the bail and handled the whole thing They gave me an address on her when I went out there It was a bungalow court on Normandy and it took her a long time to answer the door Yeah, tell me how tall I am Oh, I'd love to but it's not right now They told me you'd been out since 10 o'clock Maybe I should have come sooner Dave, you're giving me the willies I'm about to take a shower I was kind of hoping we could have a drink I did better than I thought, would you? I got a hold of a lawyer for you tonight Yeah? Well, doesn't that break me an invitation to have a drink? I said later, I'm really tired I said no Well, if you're that thirsty, all right That's better And every day my boss gets killed and I need a private detective I need a drink, I was slugged tonight Slugged? Yeah, right here, see What looks nasty, why didn't you want to do that to you?   What's the idea? He gave it Why don't you tell him to go away, baby? Anybody can tell we're busy Let it go, Reagan You want to break yourself?  Come here, honey Oh, no!  She spun around and fell into a coffee table And then lay very quiet on the rug Her eyes were open and she didn't say anything She just lay there looking up at him I couldn't tell where she'd been hit He seemed to forget all about me Because he walked over to her, knelt down beside her Put the gun right up against her head This is awful close range, baby But I can't afford to miss Neither could I Well, when Daddy and I stuck our heads together And it all came out when we looked into a couple of things You see, Dave Henderson was Dudley Haynes And he was wanted for attempted murder And embezzling one thing or another back in Ohio So he figured it'd be a good idea to bump himself off Dorothy helped him with the idea They both went down on Main Street And they picked up an old bum Dressed him up in a new suit and shot him I was supposed to walk in with Dorothy And she'd identify the body And as far as anybody knew, Dudley Haynes didn't be dead Dave didn't figure that she'd be taken down She didn't figure that she'd get scared And neither of them figured the man with one leg Was a pal of the man that they'd shot Well, it seems that they looked through a lot of files And they figured that a lot of murders go unsolved Maybe they do, I don't know Not anyway They sat down on that little bench up there in San Quentin last week The one with that bucket of acid in the room All he held his breath as long as he could But everybody has to breathe you He's buried up there with a lot of other guys That figured they could get away with murder Dorothy? She wasn't hurt too bad I had her in a wheelchair for the trial She got 15 years as an accomplice Some kind of a deal State's evidence and all that I don't think I'll wait for her She wasn't that good Jack Webb is featured as Jeff Regan With Wilms Herbert as Anthony J. Lyon It's CBS at 9.30 next week For more hard-boiled action and mystery With Jeff Regan Investigator Written by E. Jack Newman And produced by Sterling Tracy Dorothy Nolan was played by Betty Lou Gerson And David Ellis was Dave Henderson Lorraine Tuttle, William Conrad, and Lou Krugman supported Perfectly natural and wholesome For some men who ought to leave great wealth behind There's a druggist in a small town in Pennsylvania who'll do that The wealth he'll leave behind Will make many lives easier and happier And finer down through the years For he was the principal donor of an outdoor meeting Place for religious services in a Boy Scout camp In the Poconoz Working with his neighbors and community activities He saw the need of this improvement Help to install it That's the kind of wealth that you can dequee To generations coming on as you enjoy the freedom Of working with your neighbors for the betterment of your community Freedom that can be anybody's pleasure is everybody's job Music for this program is arranged by Dick Arant Next week at 9.30 Jeff Regan Investigator Brings you another thrill-packed half-hour With this story of the House by the Sea Bob Stephenson speaking This is CBS The Columbia Broadcasting System