And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. Suspense. Tonight, in answer to many requests, we bring back a charming fantasy about a small boy who discovered a new world and lived forever after in its enchantment. We call it the cave. So now, starring Richard Beals with Billy Chapin, here is tonight's suspense play, the cave. It's on days like this that I remember how it used to be before I found the cave. This day in particular, of course it's hard to see everything as it really was. Time has a habit of distorting the memories. Memories. Christmas. Christmas day. What a long time ago that was. I was 10 and an unpopular uncle had distinguished himself by giving me a flashlight. It was enormous. Four batteries and a most incredible gleam to its metal case. I couldn't wait to try it out. And because it was still early afternoon, I could think of only one place that was dark enough for the exciting test. The cave.  George Fennell and I had never ventured more than 200 yards or so inside. But on that Christmas afternoon, I knew that the cool darkness of the cave would have no fears for George and me. We met near the dunes, as arranged, to compare notes on our respective Christmas presents. It was quite warm and the snow was beginning to melt in patches. A few gulls were wheezing about nearby. It was as I have remembered it all my life. Key. Listen, I'd better work like a searchlight tonight. I guess it would all right. Maybe they'll let us stay up tonight if it doesn't get too cold and we could play the pirate. I could use my new gun. I thought we might go in the cave this afternoon. Hey, that's Key. Uh-oh. Maybe they'll get sore. I had to get all dressed up today. We won't get dirty. Besides, we could go a real long way inside with this. I wouldn't want to go in too far. They say the cave goes off in a lot of tunnels. We could get lost. Maybe if you haven't got a flashlight. Sure, that's right. And with my gun... Sure, we can explore. Come on. I'll race you to the cave. I won the race and we stood at the entrance of the big cave. The arch had a span of about 25 feet. But just inside it widened until the walls were 70 feet apart and the ceiling over 15. As we passed from sunlight to shadow, I turned for a moment and looked down to the sea. At the water's edge a gull stood motionless, looking up at us. Then solemnly, as though with disapproval, it too turned about and gazed out over the water. The opening of the cave receded and became small and we went deeper and deeper. Shine it up there, Dan. Way up. Okay. Gee, I'll bet that's high. Oh, a mile, I guess. You're silly. Maybe a hundred feet. Boy, that's keen. Sounds like a real gun. It's like the cave turns down there, see? Okay, but we better not go too far. No, but, well, I've got to get back for dinner. They'll be awful sore if I'm late. You won't be late. Come on, I want to see what's around there. Okay, hold the light on my gun. I've got to reload. Fish in a stream like this. Where'd it come from? Cave sometimes. Blindfish. You're silly. What are you stopping for, George? We've got to go back now. Why? Because it's late. Right. How do you know what's tunnel we took? How? Maybe we could get... Listen, George, maybe if we kept on going, we'll find treasure in here. Treasure? Stands to reason. Maybe like in the pirate book. Somebody came here and buried treasure. Henry Morgan or somebody. No. Sure, stands to reason.  They say no, but just suppose. If no one's looked, how would they know? I think we better get back. Maybe tomorrow we can look. The cave's getting awful narrow. We might even find old pirate spoons inside. You've got too much imagination. I've heard them saying so at home. I don't want to go any further. Well, I'm going to. Okay. Give me the flashlight. No. You want to go back? You go back. In the dark. I don't want to go back.  They'll be mad at sleep. Well, just for a little while. If we don't find anything, we'll go back. All right. But only a little while. I'm thirsty. You better not drink out of that water. It's probably poison. Oh, why? Here, hold the light. I'm going to have a drink. I told you.  It's poison. No. No, it's soft. It's like the ocean. What? There. Coming down the stream. That white thing. Yeah. Looks like a piece of paper. I'm going to get it. Pull out of my hair. Looks like a handkerchief. That's silly. It's too small. Who use a handkerchief like that? What? My mother does. Gee.  You can almost see through it. Let me get down here. Who cares? Maybe it's a message. Huh? Like from someone in distress. I'm going home. Like a damsel in distress in the pirate book. We've got to find out. Give me my flashlight. We'll follow the stream. We followed the stream. We walked by it as the cave twisted and curled. We didn't notice the passageway, which had been getting smaller all the time, suddenly widened out. And the stream which was becoming a river, and the river, the river. Where's the other side of the water? It keeps going. It's like a lake. Maybe a sea. There's a lot of waves. Dan? Huh? Turn the light around. It's a cave? There's no top to it either. It's just too hard to see. That's all. Let's go home. Let's go home right now. Oh, what are you afraid of? I'm not. But I'm hungry. And it's Christmas. And well, I've got things to play with. Come on, Dan. I want to get outside. See what you've done? You dropped it in the water. It's all your fault. I didn't want to come here anyway. How are you going to get back? It's dark. No, no, it isn't. It's not what I wanted you to see. I don't see anything. You will. We stood there, George and I, ten years old. And for a moment, no longer afraid because of the wonder of the thing. There was light from a sky. A sky I knew I had never seen before. Yet I knew I was still in the big cave because when I spoke, the echo of my voice returned. I can't find the flashlight. The water's too deep. That's funny. I'm not saying that. It's not going to be funny when you can't get home. Listen. It's just an old echo. Go on. There's no cave anymore. You're just trying to scare me. Well, come to if you want. Dan, please? I'll bet nobody's ever been in here ever. I'll bet we're the first. Except for pirates, maybe. I wish we could see more. If my mother hadn't taken our mattress away, we could find our way out. Gee, Dan, it's night. Sounds like it's over there. Don't go, Dan. Don't like this place. Go home if you want. Go any closer, Dan. Let's go home. I want to see what he's doing. No. No. Look. There's some other people. Nambi, you scurvy wretch. Look at him, Nambi. It's the place you were still there. It's true, Nambi. I'll show you what's there. You puttbelly toad.  Come on, bullies, lay on. We'll exercise our appetites for the fee. You are listening to the cave. Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, suspense. A new superhighway, a throughway, attracts the bad as well as the good, as you well know if you've driven along a superhighway recently. But it's not the speeders and reckless drivers the FBI goes after tomorrow night on CBS Radio. It's a smooth schemer and swindler who's in operation as soon as a new superhighway is announced. He's cooked up a lovely plan for getting farmers and other landowners along the proposed right-of-way to fall for his tricks. The resulting story is timely and essential. Hear it tomorrow night when the FBI in peace and war comes this way on most of these same stations. And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Richard Beals with Billy Chapin starring in tonight's production, The Cave. A tale well calculated to keep you in. Suspense. In that faint light from the stars of another world, the world of the big cave, George and I watched. We could only see shadows until someone lit a lantern. And then I knew I'd been right. Pirates they were, the most glorious and gaudiest pirates to sail under the Jolly Roger. The leader was a huge man with a fine, big beard and a voice like the trombone in the village band. How shall we cook him, bullies? Rial to Steve. No, Cap, no, no. Now he's too tough a morsel for that to him. I say it's roast him. He'll roast it'll be. There's nothing like roast manby I always say. Oh, no. But we've cut out his heart first and feed it to the dog. Now the lily livered aggravation say a prayer. He's going to kill him. Sounded like a boy. A boy? A boy? What happened was the lady Alicia. Bill, she'd be in the dungeon, gone fallen. Ah, that's true. He came from over there. All the lantern high, she said. Aye, Cap. They'll get us. Dan, we've got to learn. Don't be afraid. If you're not afraid, nothing can happen. Do you see anything, gone fallen? Oh, no. Save us all. It's a boy. It is two of them. Good for me. Boy. Two small boys. What shall we do with them, Cap? Hang them. Hang them, I'll say. They'll be off to the treasure. You! Merry Christmas, Namby. I should have turned you inside out. Hold your blister, bladdering joy, you. Aye, Captain, sir. Boy. Boy, what's your name? And that one? George. He's my friend, George. George Fennel. His father's a policeman. Where do you come from, boy? Greenfield. That's outside the cave. What cave? What do you do here? Whose spies be answered up now? Where be a ship? We didn't come in a ship. No ship? They're boys, Captain. What harm can they do? From its Christmas. I say feed them and send them on their way. What Christmas got to do with it? If they be spies, it's the plight. Look into this further. Meantime the goose and suckling pig should be ready. I say it's time for the feast. I'll sing over you. Be a hungry boy. Yes. And him. He's hungry, too. Then join us on a merry Christmas. For no man can say Captain Blackton lacks the Christian spirit. Am I right, Nambi? Oh, you're right, Captain. Right as I say. Ah, I'd have slit your gullet if you said me nay. Merry Christmas and break out the rumble. I remember that day that long ago. The great dining board set upon trestles, the fruits and wine, roast goose and pig, the pirates rough in their colorful patched clothing, the songs and drinking, stories, stories of home and sea. Such Christmases I dreamt of and I had dreamed it to come true. George sat next to me, eyes wide and unbelieving. After the plum pudding, we were called upon to sing a carol. As we sang, they became quiet and each sat lost with his own thoughts of sweetness and sadness. The little man Nambi, bird-like and asleep, gone-fallen, thin as a twig, a patch over one eye, the other kindly and wise, shill and the captain, tears coursing down their cheeks. These were my pirates, my own. I say, well done, a double rum for the boy. Captain, Captain, it's been a happy day with us. Let's share it with those less fortunate. Less fortunate who? We are all well met. That lady, Elysia. Nay, she be our prisoner and until rents will be paid, so she will remain. Oh, what matter if she graced our table for the evening? It's been a long time since her woman has been with us. Very well, then the prisoner here, fetch her from the dungeon. Then I thought of the fine lace handkerchief we had found in the stream. Would this prisoner, the lady Elysia, would she have sent the message of distress? And how? They brought her in and to me she looked as she should have looked the most beautiful lady in the world, gowned in silks with a pale but proud face. I fell in love with her and I was ten. As the night wore on, the pirates grew drowsy and one after another their heads drooped and soon all were asleep. Even George, sitting small in his great chair, nodded. I went to the lady Elysia's side. It was your handkerchief we found in the stream, wasn't it? Yes, I had not dared to hope. But they have you locked in the dungeon. Beyond my window is a running brook. I prayed that when I dropped the kerchief it would by some happy chance be discovered. Well, I found it all right. You are very brave to have come here. Well, how long have they kept you prisoner? Six months now. We were sailing to the Indies. Our ship was taken and I, I alone survived. Now they hold me for ransom. Oh, that's terrible. Gosh, I wish I could do something to save you. There is nothing more. I know I'm not very big but maybe I could fight them. They are too many for you. Dan, Dan, they're all asleep. Come on, we can get away now. Let's go home. Home? Sure. Our folks are going to be mad. George, we've got to save her. If you could but escape and deliver a message to my father. Sure, okay. Where does he live? London. Lord Bassonstoke. He would reward you well. Sure, but we've got to go now. I don't want to leave you. They'll be angry when they wake up. My hope will rest in you. I shall pray for your safety and return. Gee whiz, Dan, come on.  I'll be right along. Okay, but hurry up. I'll wait by the water. Will you be all right? Yes. Suppose I come back and you're not here. I shall try to leave a message. I'm Dan. I know. When I get older, I shall marry you. You're beautiful. I'll wait for you. Now you must go before they awake. I don't want to go. You will come back to me. Here. I love you. Gee whiz, I want to get home. They'll be mad. Mother said not to be late for dinner. We've got to save Lady Alicia. Don't forget. Okay, but hurry up. I ain't a doctor. I know which way to go. I don't want to fall on a stream and get all wet. I've got my good clothes on. Who won't? I'm sorry I dropped your flashlight in.  I don't mind. I'll bet it's awful late. I'm glad it's Christmas. Maybe they won't mind. We followed the tunnels one to the other. The stream flowed with us, urging us on. It was dark, but I knew the way. We felt along the damp walls of the cave, and at every step we moved further away from my world. Suddenly from a great distance, we saw a tiny circle of light, a dot which grew and grew until it was the size of a golden sovereign. The entrance, and it's still light out. I won't be late for dinner. And I was afraid. I was afraid because I knew that when I stepped out into that sunlight, I should never be able to find my way back again. Never. What's stopping for? Why? George, if we can run, we can make it home before the sun goes down. For peace's sakes, Dan. What's the matter with you? I'm not coming with you. I've got to go back. Go back? What do you want to do that for? I've got to. I don't want to leave her. The pirates. I want to go back. Pirates? Who? They have danced? Come on. It's only a game? Come on. You've forgotten. I knew you would. I'm not going with you. You better. I'll tell your mother. And you get it. Goodbye, George. Dare? I had turned away from George and the speck of light that was outside. His voice had followed me, plaintive and lonely. Then as I found the stream again, there was no sound but that of gentle water and my own steps. And the stream became a river and the river broadened. The walls of the cave fell away and I'd found my pirates again. It's on days like this that I remember how it used to be before I found the cave. This day in particular. Sometimes I wonder what happened to George and what it's like outside the cave. But I don't really mind. After all, the lady Lycia kept her promise and waited for me until I grew up. Now everything is as I'd always dreamed it in the books. Oh, Captain Blackton? He's still here. A little less ferocious perhaps than 20 years ago. Captain? Yes, Blackton. If you and the lady are ready, sir, the turkeys be cooked and the men wait in your pleasure. Very well, Blackton. Thank you. And a merry Christmas. Thank you, Captain. Thank you, sir. And a merry Christmas to you, sir. Suspense, in which Richard Beals with Billy Chapin starred in tonight's presentation of The Cave. Next week, we bring you one of the great mysteries of the sea, a ship found drifting in perfect condition with but no human aboard. We call it The Mystery of the Marie Celeste. That's next week on Suspense. Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, who also wrote tonight's script. The music was composed by Rene Garagang and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Featured in the cast were John Daener, Hans Conreed, Ben Wright, Lawrence Dobkin, Ellen Morgan, and Raymond Lawrence. Next Saturday, Christmas Eve, the whole nation is invited to the largest carol services ever held. CBS Radio is bringing you its great star, Bing Crosby, in a full hour of the beloved Christmas hymns and songs and airs from olden times. You and your family are cordially invited to gather around your own Christmas tree, as millions of other families gather around their trees and sing with this wonderful balladere. From points all over the country and the world, Bing will also bring you the Yuletide songs of special localities and foreign nations. Next Saturday, Christmas Eve, as America sings with Bing on most of the same CBS radio stations, you and your family join in. Stay tuned now for five minutes of CBS Radio News to be followed on most of these same stations by The Jack Carson Show. You'll hear America's favorite shows on the CBS Radio Network.


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This is the SF Productions podcast network People used to tape shows. Let me see. There's a tape already in here. Let me hook this up here. Let me see what we got. Come back with us to the 60s and 70s, the dwelling place of the lost generation. An era whose heroes, role models, and very lives were molded and formed by weekly installments of favorite television programs. Welcome to the place your parents didn't understand. Welcome to the vast wasteland. Welcome home. I'm your host, Mark Spindar, along with Wilbur Neal and Marty Wiley, and we're here to talk about 60s and 70s television. And tonight, it's variety shows! But before we get into variety shows, I just want to tell you we're on Tuesdays at 6, Wednesdays at 10, and Thursdays at 3 p.m. Here on ACTV, cable 21. And if you want to write to us, and boy, those letters just been rolling in, write to box 151526, Columbus, Ohio, 432-15. We'll start off with a viewer mail segment just any week now. Anyways, on to variety shows. Certainly one of the big things, one of the first things on television because they were just really cheap to do. You just basically got any out-of-work vaudevillian or Catskill type comic. Cat costumes in the barn. Yeah, that's about it. Pretty much no budget. Let's have a show! And of course, some of the younger Catskill comics went on to be the big 50s stars like Milton Burrell and people like them. But really, you have to get into the 60s for the golden era of the variety show. And so we just want to just go into that. What do we got here, Wilbur? Well, by golly, I didn't do the massive amounts of research that you did, sir, but the first, probably the first one that I really remember, well, there were two, actually. I've had to go with Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason and everybody's favorite Ed Sullivan. Right. Well, that's true, but I'm going kind of like in weekend order here. It's like, you got Jackie on Saturday, you got Ed on Sunday, and then Red Skeleton wasn't on until Tuesday. Oh, Eddy. Oh, Eddy. That was exactly it. Give me a kiss, Eddy. The exposure to the Muppets. Yes, he did. The good Muppets that blew up and were violent. They were the cute Muppets. Right. There was one I remember, the Glutton. The Glutton that would just eat everything, and he'd eat everything, and he'd eat everything. Then there's more food coming out. He'd eat, and he'd eat, and he'd eat, and he kept getting bigger and bigger.  It's like this little walnut, and he ate it, and it shrank him down. He got tiny, tiny, tiny. Then another Glutton came out, and he just started eating and eating, and a lot of little Glutton was there, and he just ate him up. He was eating, and it was the funniest thing. Well, that's just one of many, many Muppets. I watched his solo for the Muppets, for Tom Pozzigio. I mean, hey, the rolling stars of the Beatles, who were they? Oh, yeah, right. I thought they were the Muppets. That's right. They were Tom Pozzigio. That's good. And I watched for the Circus Axe, too. The Dog Axe, yeah. The Circus Axe, hey. And the Marquee Champs. Right, Tom Pozzigio. Was it Marquee? There was a certain group of champs because they get ice to page, too. Yeah. The Marquee TV stars get ice to page. You're gonna see the skating champ. All right. They're the Marquee Champs. Well, that's something that they might even say. And the Trit Dog, and the Plate Axe. The Plate Axe.  And everybody thought that was dangerous, you know? Saber dance, you know, the Saber dance, that's just the best music to do anything to. The music. Yeah, that's the Saber dance. No, it's also the place for your music. The Taylor Dancers were out there. Yeah, everybody was on Ed Sullivan, pretty much. I mean, well, I rather than us. If Ed Sullivan was on today, we'd be on it. No, who didn't say no? Jackie Gleason had to let the Tom Hansen Dancers or something like that. We did, it'd be good. No. Well, maybe, I know, I thought, I thought he also had June Taylor. Well, did he have June Taylor? Oh, yeah. Hey June got around. Hey June, you got around. Dancing on every show on TV. Let's see you. Did you see that Ed Sullivan was like, really had absolutely no talent other than the fact that he could really pick acts that America loved. Shoes, he had big shoes. He had some really big shoes. But isn't this strange that, like, I don't really remember the Beatles being on there or the Rolling Stones. Well, I don't. I know, I don't. Or Elvis even. Well, hey, I saw the night that the Beatles were on. I'm sure I saw it, but that's not what sticks in my head.  A big one.  We had a small TV. So he looked small. Everybody looked small. Everything was little. And nobody got anything. Jackie Gleason did have those June Taylor. Oh, yeah, I thought he did. Okay. Yeah. Well then the Tom Hance, they must have been on, Jack, um, um, the Red Skelton then. Yeah, I would assume. I like Red Skelton. I don't remember guests on this show. I don't really remember any. They were mostly regulars. Him and him. Him. Gertrude Heathcliff. Well. And Freddie the Freeloader. Who always reminded me of the town clown. And the mean little kid. And the mean little kid. And the characters he did. Well, those were called characters. And that was about him. Yeah. And other ones. And a host of others. And a host of others. But, uh, I liked it. It was, it was like being told a story. I was a little sad that they, uh, that someone did a, I think spy magazine did a poll last year where they, they said, here are various celebrities, which ones are alive and which ones are dead, as far as you know. And they did a poll and they said something like 60% of the American populace, but Red Skelton was dead. Oh no. Yeah. Yeah. But 60% is like something like 60% of the American people, but I mean, based statistically on this information. Yeah. Red do some more work. Maybe a little less painting, a little bit more TV exposure. I don't know. Well, good bye. And may God bless. Wow. That's a trip. Yeah. Did you mention Clem Cadittlehopper? No. He was always one of my favorites. He'd walk around and he'd do that little walk thing. And they had a little. I don't like that. Oh, Bill. Yeah. By golly. I remember him. Well, in the 60s, you also got into the, some of the, we, you got the, the movie stars, the big movie stars from the, from the 30s and 40s coming into a variety show in the 50s. And well, yeah.  You know, they're, they're competing with us. Upstarts. We're here. We don't want you around here. So TV. But by the 60s, they realized that the movie industry was starting to collapse at that point. And they, I mean, they, their business was slowing down and TV was picking up most of the, most of the slack. But, you know, they tried that 3D thing. Right. So, so you had, there was a show, Hollywood Palace. Hey. And this was, and Bing Crosby was the host. Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. You know, it was like, most of the, most of the shows back then, if it didn't have a name attached to the name of the show, it was basically the, it was rotating hosts. And that Hollywood Palace was one of those. Oops. That's a little every morning. Okay. So, let's see. What do we have here? Well, as you get into the mid 60s, you get more into shows. Let's see. Brothers Brothers. Well, that's, yeah, someone, yeah, going in the later 60s. That was one of the best ones. I remember that one. I used to watch that with my neighbor. It was that radical show. That radical show. They were talking radical stuff. Do you remember Steve Martin on there playing the banjo? I can remember that. Rob Reiner was a, was a writer for the show, wasn't he? Rob Reiner, Steve Martin. I don't know. I don't know about Rob Reiner. I believe that Rob Reiner was a, was a writer for the show. We can look this up here. And, and, um, Officer Judy, who's now Super Dave on the show. Super Dave. You know, I watched Super Dave for a long time. I kept thinking, where do I know him from? I know this guy from something. And it's Officer Judy. And then it like came out on the news mother's brother's show or something like that. But yeah. And I remember really, uh, Pat Paulson. Yeah, Pat Paulson was like my favorite on there. Yeah. And do you remember when Pat Paulson, and they did that itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka dot bikini song, and he came out wearing the bikini? Well, I can't say I remember that. I remember that for such a strange reason. I can see how they could bear the impression. The image would burn into your consciousness. Yeah. If I would have seen it, I'd probably remember back in three. There we go. What are we screaming from the set? Well, here's Mason Williams. Mason Williams. Yeah, that did classical gas. Yeah, that was like his big claim to fame there. Jennifer, well, no. John Hartford. John Hartford. Okay, wasn't Glenn Campbell on the show also? Yes, he was. At a point, they don't mention him here. I know he was on there. Oh, yeah. Because I can remember. It seems like I remember a row of men, and they were all playing a guitar or a banjo, and it seems like Steve Martin was one of them, and... John Hartford was one of them, definitely. And it seems like Glenn Campbell was one of them. He probably was, because he and John Hartford, they played a lot together. Well, John Hartford went on, didn't he go on to the Glenn Campbell show? Well, yeah, when the Glenn Campbell show came on, John Hartford was right there with him. Yeah. And here, look, Don Novello. Oh! Early appearance by Don Novello. Wow, that's right. Father Guito Sarducci. Wasn't he one of the writers? Um, he could have been. The regular, according to that. Yeah. It was a regular on the 1975 reissue of the show that didn't really work very well because it wasn't nearly, it wasn't topical at all, basically.  You know, and that's the way the networks always think. You know, it's like, well, you know, we always want it both ways. We want something, you know, it's really out there, but we want it to be exactly like everything else and homogenized. Yeah. Don't make people play. Poke fun at virtually all the hollowed institutions of American society. Motherhood, church, politics, government, et cetera. It was topical, it was funny, and occasionally it was in bad taste. I remember, well, but here's a sugary thing down here. It says the Smothers Brothers were replaced by He-Ha. Well, but yeah, the Smothers Brothers show kind of, you know, in a way begat the Glenn Campbell show and the Jim Stafford show. I mean, made a lot of careers. Oh, Jim Stafford had that neat puppet. Rodney. They all just kind of sprang off of each other there. Right. With the same kind of format, the same background, actually. Yeah, pretty much. The Sonny and Cher show, which had, which like, The Cher Show. Yeah, The Cher Show came off of it. And The Sonny Show. Think back of Cher doing a sexy Sadie the vamp and all that now. She's doing Moonstruck and Mermaids and all this cool stuff. It was like, when they split up there, they did the Sonny Show, Sonny had the funny stuff. Cher had all the singing and entertainment. Right. Sonny was just funny. Sonny was funny. And then you have Tony Orlando and Dawn. And then it was like, just Tony Orlando for a while. And then they stopped the show altogether. I liked Tony Orlando and Dawn. Well, I'll confess, I had a huge crush on Tony Orlando. It was off of the Tony Orlando and Dawn show. Just one of my favorite silly shows to think about. Pink Lady and Jeff. Now, for those who don't remember Pink Lady and Jeff, this show was on about 1980, I believe, 7980. It was right there in the late 70s. And this was one of the brilliant Fred Silverman concepts. The idea was, there was this Japanese female singing duo called Pink Lady, and they were a big hit in Japan. Nobody in the U.S. heard about it and said, great, I'll bring them over here to the U.S. and we'll pair them with this American comedian, Jeff Altman, who you now see on Letterman and stuff. And at that time he was a much more conventional comedian. Just basically, you know, I'm going to be at the Sands, you know, I'll be with Buddy Hacketters out then. And so you had this very conventional comedian and these two Japanese ladies who know English at all, had no concept of the English language. So they tried to do banter between Jeff and these two women with them giving all their lines phonetically. So it was like the absolute absence of comic timing because they had no idea what they were saying. So it was like, well, hey, you know. So I said, take my wife, please. Hello, Jeff. And then the other one, it was like totally like Tony Orlando and Don, because they were always, it was always like the nice one and then the one that was always cracking on him. So there's like little, hello, Jeff. That was the nice one. Then the other one, oh, there you go. Tomahawkins. It was one of the members of Don, and she's gone on just, she's in every sitcom now. She was the mean one on Tony Orlando and she was the one that was always cracking on him. But you know, Tony Orlando and Don, when they recorded Knock Three Times, were that their first or was it Gypsy Rose? No, it was Gypsy Rose of that Knock Three Times. When they did their first recordings, he did his part in California. They took it to Chicago or somewhere. Oh, we got some nice background singers here. Played them a tape. They didn't meet really until the song got popular and the idea from the show. But it worked out, you know, they just naturally, they were performers. It worked out. They were part of the family of performers here in the industry. By the industry, I mean the business. Unlike the Millie Vanilly thing, now where you have people that sing it totally away from them, then you have people perform it, who don't even sing it off. In fact, they don't even speak English really. But when they got together, it worked. And the same idea didn't work with Pink Lady. No, it was like an idea, but it didn't. It was funny. It was like an idea. It was like Fritz Goldberg had Saki one night and said, Japan, Japan! I can see this is the future. It's Japan! Well, the same manner brought us super train. Well, you really can't have a talk about variety shows without mentioning Dino. Everybody, love somebody. Sometimes. All the specials he did. He also had four different series. The Dean Martin comedy world in 74. Dean Martin presents in 68 to 73. Dean Martin's show from 65 to 74. And the Dean Martin summer show from 66 to 71. Which one did he come out one day? And the Gold Diggers show. Is that the one where he came out? Jumped on the piano in the piano? Yes. That was the Dean Martin show. These shows are all interchangeable. That's the amazing thing about it. All these shows, they call them different things. I just think because people said, we're bored with that show. The executive is sitting around. We'll rename it. Pretty much the exact same show. And that's all they did. Because, you know, Dean and sit there and drink and tell jokes. And Frank or Sammy had dropped by or, you know, whoever. And have Leonard Barr come out. Hi, I'm Leonard Barr. He could easily be Gilbert Godfrey's godfather or grandfather or something. You know, I can't separate the Dean Martin show too much from the roasts. Oh yeah. Those same people. They were at the same time period. It was like they would do maybe... The roasts were on Friday nights. That's right. But I just, I don't know for some reason the Dean Martin show and the celebrity roast show. I think what happened is they found, I think it's my opinion, is that they found out that Dean couldn't even, he was just, he came in so blotto that he even couldn't handle simple sketches. So it's like, well, let's see, he can probably read off a cue card and he'll be the master of ceremonies. We'll only have him on a couple of minutes and we'll put 10 or 11 other comedians around him so if he blows it we can always just, and it's all on tape so we can edit it anyway. It's like this is where Rodney Dangerfield really got his real big start on the Dean Martin shows. I remember him a lot and he still looked the same. I watched Gilbert Netmore. Of course she had her, she started out in some variety show before my time. Gary Moore. Gary Moore, okay. Yeah, Gary Moore. That's the cleaning woman, wasn't it? No. In various parts. I don't think there was, I don't think a cleaning woman showed up until herself. No, that was Gilbert Net, the charwoman. Really? I could almost, I almost think I saw her on other shows. I don't know. Before that and then it was like when she got her own show it was like, well, by golly, she isn't really a cleaning woman. I was surprised. I was truly surprised. Because I think that was how I first saw her on things. That's a charwoman there. She created a lot of characters. She really had a real, it was like, skit, song, skit, song, skit. It was a real structured kind of thing and from there you got the little Carol Lawrence. Vicki Lawrence. Excuse me. Vicki Lawrence. Queen of the Daytime Game Show. Yeah. I caught her last week on To Tell the Truth which they brought back. Yeah. And of course that put together Harvey Corman and Tim Conway who, Yeah. I think they're married, I don't know. They're still in commercials together. They're just joined at the gym for something. They're laughing at each other. Really, that was the last, as far as I'm concerned, the last great variety show. Carol, bring that up. I mean after that it was like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, Carol bring that up. I mean after that it was pretty much, you know, there were just the last few stragglers but see, see in my opinion I think the variety shows that are going to make a come back in the 90s. I'm convinced of this. Oh no! I know, see the thing is, all the scary, all the scary singing groups that don't have any records anymore like doing the same thing. Like doing the little tail of a rear end! People like the Silverz, the Silverz variety show. You see that! I mean the Jets could be their own variety show, there's so many of us. The new kids on the block. The block variety show. Well that's pretty much what that is. The kids down the street or whatever it is. The kids down the street on Saturday. The kids in the hall. No, not the kids in the hall. The kids next door. The guys next door. Whatever it is. Kids on the street. Kid clone guys. Kids from down the block around the corner. The neighborhood. The street back into yesterday. The thing is, I mean everyone's saying that the variety shows. Oh they're never going to bring back variety shows. But around 1980 they said, oh they're never going to do any more family sitcoms. They're dead. No one's going to do any more of those. We've done it. It's all done. And then the Cosby Show came and everyone said, that's okay then. And what's happening now is you're seeing shows like Cop Rock is a good example. This is a show that desperately wants to be a variety show. But nobody wants to be the one to stick out their neck and say, alright I'm going to do a variety show damn it. Nobody wants to do it. The closest thing we sort of have are the late night Letterman, Carson, Oh senior. See what they really need to find is somebody like Carol Burnett who She's doing Carol and company now. Oh yeah, it's true. See what they need to do is give it to her daughter. That's what they should do. Call her Carrie. The Carrie Burnett. Her name's not Burnett. It's Hamilton. Just give it to her daughter. It's a business anyway.  You're who's kid here you can be in the movie. You need that good gene. You need to find somebody who and this was the problem with shows like the Dolly Parton variety show they tried in the mid 80's. You don't want somebody who does one thing really well and a lot of stuff not nearly as well. You want somebody who can't do anything incredibly well. You don't want to show up the guest stars. You need the jack of all trades. Exactly. You want somebody who can do everything fairly well. Carry it soon. Act in the skin. Introduce people. Nobody wanted to go on and sing with Dolly Parton because she'd show them up every week. She writes her songs up in that range up here. You have to sing in my key. Oh no. You just plowed around down there somewhere. I'll sing up here. You just come in when you want. You think you can. So let's see. But anyways I think those are coming back. Who would you pick to get a variety show? I don't know. I think it's going to be one of the probably one of the pack of the current stand up comedians that will get it. Huh. One of the hundreds. Give it to Jerry Elliott. Jerry Elliott variety show. Watch him cuff up a big old old Christian. No you watch it. Cool. So I wanted to go over a couple more shows before we get out of here. One dimension that the ill-fated Mary Tyler Moore variety shows two different shows. They tried the Mary show which the only footnote to this was the fact that this was one of David Letterman's first appearances on TV. He was one of the regulars on the show. And then there was the Mary Tyler Moore hour which was kind of like half sitcom variety thing and they both died pretty much.  Dick Van Dyke is one of those people that doesn't really do anything outstanding. Well he can dance.  He's a likeable person to one thing. He's a real warm kind of likeable person. Unlike his brother Jerry who just becomes like a crabby guy. He just becomes like a crabby guy.  This is your brother. You need somebody who's got a personality that you can you know relate to sort of like I was gonna grow up and be Cher. No. Pee-wee Herman. Let's see, one more trend that they really got into as the variety shows kind of died was there were so many variety shows that they had to differentiate them in the schedule by making weird names for the shows. Okay. And some ones down here like the Ken Berry Wow Show. Ken Berry. Let me find another good one. The late early fall Burt Convy show. I don't remember I don't remember that one. I don't like Burt Convy. The Pat Pulson's The Pat Pulson's The Pat Pulson's half a comedy hour. Half a comedy hour. Hey, you know what? They do a half a comedy hour on TV. Yeah. They do a half hour comedy hour. That's a good idea.  When you're hot, you're hot. That was the theme for it. And of course that's one of the big things in the summer shows was well, we only got like six or seven shows so we can basically center the whole thing around this hit that this guy has before this song is gone off the charts, this show will be gone anyway. Yeah. Something a little close to bringing back the varieties are these talent kind of shows. There's one on Saturday afternoons Natalie Cole hosts the Star Search. Those kind of things are sort of variety shows. Sort of. A lot of people are trying to do it but nobody wants to see one thing I just wanted to mention was that they had Larry King this fall did a thing on NBC, a variety special. I didn't get to see it but it was very much like exactly like a regular variety show. When I didn't hear anything else about it I didn't know what the ratings did we don't know but I think as far as I'm concerned it's time for the variety shows to come back. Because again they're going to go back to them for exactly the same reason as they started with them because they're cheap and they need cheap now because they're competing with cable companies and it's like you can't keep doing these Dallas and you know dynasty shows. You have an hour show that doesn't cost you anything it makes big ratings like America's Money's Home videos. I kept doing this for because one of my, just real quickly one of my favorite variety type shows was always The Gong Show Chuck Berry Chuck Berry He'd get out there okay now we've got a thing to do here.


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Shankaran Pillai, he was at the bar drinking away and every day he was late to his work. The boss was furious, you're fired. This coming year, I hope every one of you will address this fundamental aspect. You can make a conscious decision as to how I will be. You are the only one who has the ability to do it upon this planet as a human being. Let's make it happen. So, Sadhguru, the year is coming to a close, what should I plan for my next year? I would like you to think, see there isn't a great advantage in what I'm going to say now, you'll live very long. That is, I would like you to consider twenty-four hours as one year. In great celebration, you go to sleep today, every day, because you treat every day as a year. It's a cycle of time. I'm sure probably, I don't know, Ants or earthworms or some other, maybe even the corona guy. So whatever this virus, probably it's counting twenty-four hours as a year. Many other life forms may be experiencing life like this. Like people say for a dog, dog's one year is ten years for a human being or ten years for a human being is one year for a dog, whatever calculations we have. So I would like you to count every day as one year. Big celebration. Why isn't a new day as important as a new year, that's all I'm trying to ask you. Why is a new day which starts in a most glorious way all over the world, spectacular sunrises happen? Well, very few people have seen, others are watching on their phone screens. It rises anytime you want on the phone screen, that's the advantage of that. So when such a spectacular event is happening every day in the morning, why is it not a new beginning? Every day is a new beginning. Sadhguru, you are spoiling, we are planning a celebration, you are spoiling it, Sadhguru? No, I'm saying even first of January is the same thing. It is also worthy of celebration, but I'm saying every day it begins in such a grand way it is worthy of celebration. Only problem is your mental cycles have gotten into this face that it needs a whole lot of support and preparation and a lot of things. This happened, Shankaran Pillai had attended a satchang like this and he took this seriously. And every day in the evening he was at the bar drinking away and every day he was late to his work and the boss was just about to fire him, he was done with him, he told him any number of times, but he always came an hour, hour and a half late and then he had a friend who also was his bar colleague. No when you do something so regularly he becomes your colleague, otherwise he may be just your buddy, okay. So but that guy was going to office bang on time. So Shankaran Pillai, how do you manage this? Both of us go home at the same time. Both of us drink about the same quantities, but you're always at the office on time. So the friend said, what I do is see, normally we are going home by twelve o'clock, I sleep immediately. At two o'clock in the morning I wake up and have another shot of whiskey. I sleep, at four o'clock I wake up and have another two shots of whiskey and then I wake up at eight o'clock and I'm nine o'clock in the office. Shankaran Pillai thought, let me also try it and he went and tried the same thing. And to his amazement, he woke up at eight thirty and he rushed to the office. He made it just before nine thirty. The boss was furious, he said, this is it, you're done, you're fired. He said, why every day I was coming an hour, hour and a half late, today I'm only twenty-seven minutes late. What do you mean twenty-seven minutes? Where were you on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday? So where were you all these three hundred and sixty-four or three days? And suddenly you're in a celebration mode, everybody should ask this question to themselves. Why is it that you are not celebrating these three hundred and sixty-four days? Only one day you're trying to celebrate. I'm not trying to say you never were happy, you never were joyful this year but I'm saying it's extremely important because the nature of life is it's rolling away, that's what a new year means. That is it's not stopping for you, whether you were locked up in the house or you locked up in the office or you were in the gutter, doesn't matter. Time is rolling away. Time is rolling away means life is rolling away. So when this is the nature of life, the time is a ceaseless meal going on, there is a different way to approach time. The most important thing is that a human being has to learn to be still. So if I don't do anything will it be useful? You need to really examine this whole year. Have you been busy or have you been preoccupied?  No, you're not busy, you've become inefficient. To generate one sensible thought, you are generating ten-thousand thoughts that is inefficiency. One thought that you need to act, that's all you need. Why do you need ten-thousand thoughts to arrive at that if at all if you ever arrive at that? So this inefficiency, do not call it busy. This is just preoccupation. This preoccupation has become a global phenomena now because people do not know how to… how to sit, how to breathe, how to hold themselves up. Because nowhere in the education system it is there, they told you if you eat protein vitamin this, this, this, you'll be fine, everything will be okay. You will survive of course. But if you want to realize the potential of what it means to be human, if you want to unfold your humanity, if you want to unfold your genius, you need a space where the outside doesn't really enter. You need a space within you where just this is there, the world is around you. Actually the world is only around you. It is not inside of you. But for most human beings it is inside. They close their eyes, it'll drive them crazy from inside. So this is because nothing has been done, no work has been done on such a phenomena of a machine. The most sophisticated technology on the planet is this one, nothing has been done. Even to find the levers or can't even say a keyboard anymore, touchscreen. What does what, somehow. So in trying to fix the world for our comfort, we are coming to a point where we are destroying the very source of our existence. It is far more dire than people think it is right now. We may be directly involved, we may not be directly involved. But we are one hundred percent responsible for everything that every human being does in this world and everything that's happening and not happening. Because this is what consciousness means. This is what becoming a human being means because every other creature is structured in a way that it is defined as to what it is. The only undefined life on this planet is the human being.  They would like a definition. This is why they attach themselves to a philosophy and ideology, a religion, a belief system because they're trying to put themselves into a definition. But the greatest beauty of being human is this life is not defined. It is not defined means it's free, that's what it means. But freedom is a scary thing. You would like to be among the four walls because freedom looks like scary. But that's what you always try for unknowingly. When it comes you're afraid. This is something to be addressed this coming year. I hope every one of you will address this fundamental aspect. Are you living to be free, to be liberated or are you living just to establish more and more bondage in your life? So at a time like this or at any time for that matter, an intelligent human being will make use of every situation for his or her growth. A fool will make every situation turn against themselves and cause pain to themselves and to everybody around them. This is all there is to life is your brains working for life or against life. So if you lived a year full of foolishness and suddenly tomorrow morning with resolution you will come awake, no, one has to strive. But at the same time a human being can make up their mind. If you're going this way, you can make up your mind, turn around and go this way. You have the ability to do this. I'm telling you, you are the only one who has the ability to do it upon this planet as a human being. All other creatures are ruled by pre-existing definitions within themselves. They can only do that which they are programmed for. This is the only one which is largely unprogrammed so you can make up your mind. You can make a conscious decision as to how I will be. This is not a small privilege. This is the highest privilege and freedom that has been interested upon life upon this planet. Let's make it happen.


That teachers are designers of learning the challenge that we're faced with today and why we need to move into design mode as teachers is that in the 20th century it was sufficient that we knew and that kids knew existing knowledge and we passed it along and That was sufficient and that was teachers job We did that very very well The shift that has happened in a learning society and a knowledge society is We need to be able to create knowledge But our young people need to be able to create knowledge as well Which means that we need to know the culture in which though that knowledge is created in and school Typically in the past has not been about that It's been about taking somebody else's stuff and not building on it critiquing it None of that that was the job of graduate school or the job of a really good kindergarten But nothing in between that has moved now into our school system And that's the space that we're now working in and it's the space that as teachers And that's why we've got to work together and our expertise needs to be shared as we bring that along So Teachers move into design mode There was a time And I'd like to think I you know, I I know I'm doing this in May coming close to June Where coverage was the way we designed right I'll cover that curriculum will start in September We'll go to the end of June and trust me in my first years of teaching page. I was so interested I got more stuff covered in May and June than in any other time of the year Right and it really felt like the longest yard and I used to think just because it came out of my mouth The kids learned it or just because I fast-tracked those last pieces great. It was covered There was something about it that Felt to me as though I needed to do that right or else I was negligent knew that they kept they got none of it, but that was it And I've been a classroom teacher for 25 years and I now teach the future teachers But at classroom teacher for a long time, so I actually know this one. I actually know this one, too It's called the Julie Andrews curriculum Here are a few of my favorite things and You know as the beginning part of my career. I did a whole lot of Julie Andrews curriculum, right? Oh, so-and-so's got this really need activity the kids will love it, right? Somehow they were all related. I'd make them relate to each other right particularly when I taught elementary school I Tell you I never spent so much time dying lima beans as I did in elementary school because we were doing frogs And of course we had to do math on frogs, too Did they learn anything about frogs? Well, maybe but you know chances are not and everything was there and it was unequal and But I had that very activity orientation didn't go away when I was high school in high school high school students Teachers aren't immune to this. We'll just pull it out of the filing cabinet instead of out of the box but You know we had the same thing or we'll flip to the next page in the textbook and stay you know yesterday You did odd number questions today. I'll give you a break. We'll do even number questions But we had let Pearson or McGraw Hill or one of the textbook publishers multi-million dollar Industries billion dollar industries dictate for us what our kids needed to know next This is not that that doesn't mean I wouldn't use one of those resources But I would choose what page what day not them They don't know my students as well as I know my students nor do they know where we're at so they don't get to rule I do That's how I went to university for so many years at that time at least fight for or more Not to have a textbook publisher tell me what to do And so in terms of the design then I know I need to really take a good long solid look on how people learn Do I know how people learn do I know the latest research on that? Do I have a really good clear understanding of how people learn? Not that I can't learn more, but I need to stay contemporary in that Disciplinary knowledge where what's at the edge of my discipline right at this point in time? What are people arguing about what's keeping things moving in there? What's the program of studies? Yep I need to put those in but I need to map them in and so I need to be able to cut them apart Rip them up out put them back together again pick the pieces that pertain, but it's the piece that comes into my design assessment absolutely Absolutely key to being put into there and then resources digital resources Text resources print resource all the resources that I can bring to that design When I'm designing for inquiry I have a whole bunch of things in hand and it's very circular and it moves in and out But I have all of them there so academic rigor authenticity assessment the reach beyond the classroom digital Technologies connecting with experts active exploration and elaborated forms of communication And I've thought about every single one of them and bringing them in on the Galileo website You'll see the rubric that we created that helps guide teachers in their design for that and just some things to think about


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Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pentagon Force Protection Agency's new officers ceremony. Today we will recognize the newest Pentagon police officers by swearing them in and presenting them with their credentials. We first would like to extend a special PFP welcome to all the families and friends who are here today and joining us on this significant occasion. Please stand for the arrival of the official party which will be followed by the National Anthem by Captain Anthony Dozier and the invocation delivered by Chaplain Lee. Today's procession will be led by Piper Michael McLean of the City of Alexandria Pipes and Drums. Piper McLean, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, thanks you for your time and talents. Piper McLean, take your post, sir.  Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, please bow your head and join me in prayer. Al Mali God, our Eternal Father, we've gathered here this morning to welcome our newest officers into the world of Pentagon Force Protection and our Piper family. We do not take lightly the tasks given to these officers who are committed to protecting and serving our soldiers, view these civilians and contractors in the Pentagon. Lord, grant them discernment so they can know what is wrong when it's hard to tell. Give them a deep understanding of situations and the people they are dealing with, that they wouldn't know the truth from a lie and be able to perform their duties with wisdom and integrity. Heavenly Father, please continue to watch over them and keep them safe. Surround them with the heads of protection day and night so that no harm would come to them physically or emotionally. We pray all this in your most holy name. Amen. Thank you, Chaplain Lee. Thank you, Captain Dozier. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. It is now my pleasure to introduce today's official party. First, the Deputy Director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, Mr. Lewis Ratchford, our Chief of Police, Woodrow Cusay, and Deputy Chief of Police, Ronald Wilkins. We also say a special welcome to one of our leadership team, Chief of Staff, Mr. Corey Walton. On May 3, 2002, in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks against the Pentagon and subsequent anthrax incidents, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz established the Pentagon Force Protection Agency. Since its creation, PFPA has expanded its law enforcement mission to provide force protection against the full spectrum of potential threats. Our duties include law enforcement, crisis prevention, counterintelligence, anti-terrorism, operational security, and surveillance. Under the direction of Mr. Bardry, our agency stands as one of the nation's premier federal law enforcement organizations with the motto, Protecting Those Who Protect Our Nation. We will now open this event with an address from our Deputy Director, Mr. Ratchford. Good morning. All right, we're good. All right. Welcome to everyone. On behalf of Director Christopher Vargery, I'd like to welcome everybody to the Pentagon and, more importantly, to the PFPA family. This is a special day for our officers, but it's not just a special day for our officers. It's a special day for not only PFPA but also the families, because we're all in this together. When you start looking at a tail of the tape, your officers are going to spend more time here at the Pentagon than they do sometime at home. So that makes all of us family. And thank you for sharing your officers with us to protect those who protect the nation. Please feel welcome to share, celebrate your officers. This is a special day for them. This is not one of those ceremonies you see on TV that's going to be aired live, and we're going to be editing, and now I could celebrate, celebrate the good times. There's going to be some rough patches, too, and they're going to need you then just as much. But celebrate today. Let the kids run, laugh, shout, cheer. They only get to do this once unless they leave the agency and they often come back. So keep that in mind. This is a huge milestone in their career. They just accomplished something that some may have done before as we have prior law enforcement within his class. Others is the first time in the first in their families. Others started and didn't think they were going to finish. Didn't know what they really signed up for, but they saw it through, stuck to the task and they're here right now to celebrate and breaks and protect those again that protect the nation. Today, officers, this is not the beginning. This is the beginning. I'm sorry, but it's not the end.  Some of you all may decide to do something else. One of the amazing things about the Pentagon Force Protection Agency is we're a federal law enforcement agency plus we got a whole lot of other things that we do here and we want you to stay with us. We hire to retire. That's what we like to do. And when you get to a point where you don't want to be a police officer anymore, come talk to us. We got other jobs here that you may want to do. I hope you stay with us as a police officer. But again, we're here to support you just as you support the mission. As said earlier, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency is a premier law enforcement organization. But as I just said, we're a lot more than that. You've heard we've got intelligence functions and our terrorism functions. We get involved in everything you could think of. And that's why we are a premier law enforcement organization. We assure the mission of the Department of Defense. It's hard to do your job when you're worried about everything else going on around you. We take care of that at the Pentagon Force Protection Agency. So from the secretary on down, they're operating in an environment where they don't have to worry about security. They don't have to worry about the threat. We're worrying about that. We're taking care of that and allowing them to do their mission through assurance. Again, protecting those who protect our nation. And you'll hear me echo on that constantly throughout this speech, simply because that's what we do. And somebody has to do it. Why not us? The Pentagon represents a pillar of democracy. So as you take your post, as you do your jobs, always remember that the world is watching. The world is watching this building as we are a pillar of democracy. When we're strong, the nation is strong. If we get weak, which we won't, it impacts the nation. That's the consequence of failure when we don't do our jobs. So remember that keep that on the forefront. The world is watching. I know you guys are ready. I know you're going to do your jobs. I know you're gonna represent the Department of Department of Defense Families, you're essential to your officers. They're gonna need you.  You may not understand what's going on, but they do celebrate with them, celebrate with them. There's gonna be days they come home and they don't want to talk about it. Be there for them. Be there for them. Only you know how to be there for them. And that could be in many different ways. But please, don't let them just sit there on their own. Be there for them. Be there with them. It's an extreme honor to be a member of the same. And as you guys grow out your careers here, you're going to grow to learn that it's an honor to serve. Some of you have served before. Again, some of you are serving for the first time, but I'm telling you, it's like a bug. It's contagious. It's an honor to serve. And I could think of no better place to serve than the Pentagon. When I looked at your class, as you were going through Fletty, I picked up on a lot of things. You guys are unique. But all our classes are unique in their own way. You guys have a lot of skills other than law enforcement that's going to serve you all well. For those of you may not own a crowd, this class is very diverse. As I said before, we got prior law enforcement officers on the team. We have military veterans and for all the veterans in the room, thank you for your service. Academic excellent award winners. Top shots. Look out for these guys. They're gonna do their job well. Mountain climbers. That's too much energy. That's a lot of hard work. Skydivers, you know, I'm a military prayer trooper. And it's one thing to jump out connected to a static line and have a level assurance that shoots can open. I could only imagine skydiving having I haven't got that brave yet. Musicians. That's the side of a person is going to help you communicate with others. It's a softer side. Engineers, thinkers, authors, divers. Again, something I'm not real crazy about when there's more water than I could drink, I get a little nervous. Bodyguards. And I'm not talking about at your clubs around the corner or something. I'm talking about for celebrities. That's that's huge. We got some coaches in the room, firefighters, mechanics, athletes, and most importantly, multiple languages and multiple cultures. Because when you look at the Pentagon, we're just not one of anything. We got a little bit of everything. So that diversity is going to help you guys don't shy away from it. Embrace it. Embrace the talents of your colleagues. Embrace the experiences of your colleagues. I guarantee you every day you're on duty, something non law enforcement is going to help you do your job better. Embrace it. Most importantly, it keeps you a human. And I ask you, when you're doing your job, when you have to really do your job, be empathetic. Be empathetic in your actions. Understand what someone may be going through.  But it gives you that human inflect reflex. So that you can do your job better, honorably, and at the end of the day be successful to the families. Again, be there for your officers. Be there for them, celebrate with them, encourage them. There's going to be rough days for you too. There's going to be days when things are going on, that you're not going to understand why Johnny hasn't called or why Susie didn't text. Be patient. Be patient. There is a reason why if they're here on the Pentagon Reservation. Sometimes you'll see that reason on CNN. Other times you'll know about it when they get home. But I ask, ask, ask for you all to be understanding. Support them and officers communicate with your families. Let them know what's going on. To a certain extent, you don't want to lose your security clearance. But no, seriously, communicate with your families. Communicate with your loved ones. They want to know, believe you may, I'm married. They want to know. And the more you tell them, the easier your job is going to be.  You're not in this by yourself. You got a team at home. And you got a team right here with PFPA. So without further ado, I think it's time we start putting some bags on, right? All right. Please, as the officers are coming up to get their credentials in their badges, please come up all the way in the front, take the pictures, have the kids come up, they can run around, they can yell, they can scream, you know, it's all right, we got doors here and we got a lot of officers. So nobody's going to get out this room. There it is. All right, but seriously, enjoy this day. Hopefully it's the last time they'll go through this. So celebrate it, take pictures. All right. Thank you so much for letting us enjoy your family. Thank you. Thank you, Deputy Ratchford. Appreciate it. As an agency, we recognize the importance of challenging our officers to be their best. During their training, all PFPA recruits are evaluated on professional parents and bearing responsibility and accountability, leadership, initiative, communication skills, technical and tactical weapons proficiency, and the training is both challenging and competitive. The Directors Award is presented to the graduate who demonstrates high performance in leadership and law enforcement skills during this challenging training evolution. And at this time, I'd like to invite Deputy Chief Wilkins, and I ask Officer Christopher Neff to please join him. The Directors Leadership Award is presented to Officer Neff, who during agency specific basic training exhibited impressive leadership, skill, and teamwork. His performance was outstanding and indicative of the characteristics we seek in all Pentagon police officers. Neff was nominated by his peers, and then selected by the training division as the top graduate. Signed Christopher Bargery Director Pentagon Force Protection Agency. Thank you, Chief Wilkins. Officer Neff, the floor is now yours. First, I must convey my deepest gratitude to the many people within Pentagon Force Protection Agency that have helped make today's graduation as profound as it is. I especially want to thank our leadership and senior staff, namely Mr. Bargery, Mr. Ratchford, Ms. Verdejo, Dr. Day, Chief Kusey, and Mr. Walton for showing their utmost support for our classmates since day one. I would also like to thank the PFPA instructors, specifically Mr. Marsh, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Epps, Mr. Slonaker, Officer Mason, and Officer Michael Thomas. Not you, the other one. That wasn't confusing for two months. Without whom I think we would still be on the outside looking in. Additionally, I would be remiss not to acknowledge our family and friends in the audience today. Thank you for your unconditional love, unwavering support, continued encouragement, constant understanding, and unlimited patience. We appreciate you. The other people would like to acknowledge my mother and father. I know my mother is sitting there going, where was all this effort in high school? My parents raised five kids of which I'm the youngest. Yes, the baby. When I started on boarding with PFPA, I realized that was among the oldest of the recruits. I was 40 when I started. And of course, this gave me a bit of trepidation. However, one of the instructors, a federal fellow, Battle of Nazaria veteran told me something before Fletsy that resonated with me. Stick with each other. The things you need to know are in the books, but the way you will graduate are sitting next to you. I took that to heart. I thought maybe with this very eclectic group of individuals from across the country, I could be something of an older brother. I created notes, led study sessions, gave shooting tips, practice combatives to the point that I still think I have handprints on my forearm, nights, weekends, holidays, it didn't matter to me. If my brothers and sisters needed anything, then that's where I needed to be. My best moments in training aren't the awards, the acolytes or all this. But when someone who had a moment of doubt runs up to me, arms in the air, exclaiming, I passed. So 24 or two, I thank you for all the hard work we put in as a unit together. As a famous quote, you've probably heard somewhere before, often attributed to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, true author is unknown, but it shows, of every 100 men, 10 shouldn't be there. 80 are nothing but targets, and nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them. For they make the battle. But the one. One of them is a warrior, and he will bring the others back. I really strive to become that warrior that would keep the unit cohesive and win the day. However, Director Barjary, Deputy Director Ratchford, Chief Crusade, I'm afraid to report that I have failed to become that singular warrior. But I can happily say that you will have at your disposal 14 of the finest warriors and police officers in the country. Thank you. Thank you, Officer Neth. Congratulations once again. The officer's creed will now be recited by Officer Danielle Hernandez. I am a Pentagon police officer. I hold allegiance to my country, devotion to duty and personal integrity above all. I will wear my badge of authority with dignity and restraint. I will promote by example, high standards of conduct, appearance, courtesy, and performance. I will perform my duties in a firm, courteous and impartial manner, irrespective of a person's color, race, religion, national origin and gender. I have sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. And it is my duty to protect and serve the employees of the Department of Defense and all within my area responsibility. And by these concepts, I will be strong. A true servant and guardian of the law. Thank you. Thank you, Officer Hernandez. Okay, now we got all that out of the way. Now we're going to have some fun. Okay, this is where the families we are going to recognize these 14 men and women. Okay, again, loud, boisterous, let the kids run around just like what the deputy chief said earlier or the deputy director said earlier. Sorry, I didn't mean to demote you, sir. As a reminder, when you guys come up, you will get a grip. You can once he has a photo with the chief, then you families come up and take photos with your officer and with the chief up here. Okay, one group photo, everybody can take photos, use your cell phones, please have at it. Okay. So now we will present credentials to our new officers, graduates, please take your places. And Chief Cusay, will you please join me and do the honors. Officer Christopher Neff. Officer Neff hails from Carmel, New York. He holds a bachelor's of arts degree and international criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He brings to the agency four years of experience from the United States Marine Corps. And prior to joining PFPA, he worked eight years as a security officer for the US Military Academy. Officer Neff earned the Fletsey Directors Leadership Award, Academic and Expert Shooting Awards. And he is the Directors Leadership Award recipient. Officer Xavier Errington. Officer Errington hails from Fresno, California and holds an Associate's Degree in General Studies from the College of the Florida Keys in Florida. Prior to joining PFPA, he served four years in the United States Marine Corps and rose to the rank of Corporal. Additionally, he has served five years in the United States Coast Guard, where he is currently the rank of petty officer third class. Officer Eric Bowers. Officer Bowers hails from Walter Borough South Carolina, where he holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice obtained from the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining the PFPA, he worked 10 years as a senior technician for the United States Infrastructure Corporation. Officer Bowers earned the Fletsey Sharpshooter Award. Officer Roche Brown. Officer Brown hails from Maypin, Jamaica. Officer Brown holds both a Bachelor of Arts and Associate's of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice from St. Leo University in Florida. He brings prior law enforcement experience to the agency having served Jamaica as a detective for over 11 years. Additionally, he serves over six years of military service in the United States Naval Reserves where he continues to serve today. Officer Princeton Burke. Officer Burke hails from Central Islip, New York. He holds two Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Sociology and Latin America and Caribbean Studies from Bingham University in New York. Prior to joining PFPA, he served three years as a police officer for the New York City Police Department. Officer Burke earned the Fletsey Sharpshooter Award. Officer Colin Butterfield. Officer Butterfield hails from Batavia, Illinois and holds a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice from Iowa State University. Prior to joining PFPA, he completed an internship with the ATF and the Des Moines Field Office. Additionally, he served almost two years as a correctional officer with the juvenile corrections at the Iowa Central Corrections Facility. Officer Joanne Delgado. Officer Delgado hails from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she holds a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Criminal Justice and a minor in Communications from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. Prior to joining PFPA, I'd like to further mention about Officer Delgado. She worked 11 years as an electrical engineer in International Logistics in the Caribbean Islands. Officer George Diaz. Officer Diaz hails from Baltimore, Maryland, where he holds a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Psychology, Social Sciences from Stevenson University, Owensville, Maryland. Prior to joining PFPA, he worked two years as an analyst for the United States Army Counterintelligence Command. Officer Diaz brings to the agency six years of law enforcement experience from the Baltimore Police Department, and he earned the Flessy Academic and Sharpshooter awards. Officer Arnitra Hardy. Officer Hardy hails from Washington DC. Prior to joining PFPA, she worked two years as a Transportation Security Officer with the Transportation Security Agency at Ronald Reagan, Washington Airport. Officer Eli Hong. Officer Hong hails from Garden Grove, California and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas, Grantham. He brings to the agency seven years of military service, having served in the United States Marine Corps and now currently serves with the Virginia National Guard, where he is currently ranked as an Sergeant. Officer Hong earned the Flessy Expert Shooting Award. Officer Jonathan Pauta. Jonathan hails from Elm Hurst, New York, where he holds an Associate Degree in Business Administration from the Queensborough Community College. He also brings to the agency five years of military service, having served with the 105th Security Forces Squadron, New York Air Guard, where he continues to serve today. Officer Dylan Smeal. Officer Smeal hails from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he holds an Associate Degree in Criminal Psychology from Walter State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee. Prior to joining PFPA, he worked four years as a Deputy First Class with the Loudoun County Sheriff's Department. Officer Smeal earned the Flessy Expert Shooting Award. Officer Michael Thomas Jr. Officer Thomas hails from Peru, New York and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice from the American Military University. He also brings to the agency eight years of military service in the United States Coast Guard. And prior to joining PFPA, he served seven years as a police officer with the Department of Veteran Affairs, ending his time there as a Sergeant. Officer Thomas earned the Flessy Academic Shooting Awards from his Flessy Maritime class. Officer Alexis Wilkins. Officer Wilkins hails from Newark, New Jersey and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She brings to the agency five years of D.C. National Guard experience where she earned the rank of Sergeant. Prior to joining PFPA, she served with the Arlington County Police Department as a police officer. Officer Wilkins earned the Flessy Expert Shooting Award. Once again, congratulations to all and thank you Chief Cassay. Recruiting and preparing these men and women for the mission of protecting those who protect our nation is not a task to be taken lightly. I now invite our recruiters and trainers to stand and be recognized. Thank you for your commitment. They are the direct result of your dedication and efforts. Although this agency was officially established in 2002, it is built upon a very long and firm foundation of Department of Defense traditions. For this reason, we choose to recognize those who have helped support and defend that foundation. In the audience, we have family members and guests with us today who have served in both the military and in law enforcement. I now invite all audience members who are military or law enforcement veterans are currently serving to stand and be recognized. New officers, take your positions for the chief's address and the oath of office. Thank you, Lieutenant. Officers, I'm proud to have you joining our ranks today. Pentagon Force Protection Agency senior leadership, Pentagon Police Command staff and supervisors are committed to making sure that you are the best trained, equipped and prepared police agency in the entire Department of Defense. Among tens of thousands of your peers, you will stand out. As Deputy Director Ratchford pointed out, your backgrounds, your skills, your experience, your cultures, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is indeed our strength. Our strength is a fusion of all those talents and abilities and all become Pentagon Police officers. That's what you represent. That is our strength. Our greatest strength, our most valued asset is you, our officers.  Raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. Do you solemnly swear? To support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and then I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I'm about to enter. So help me God. Officers, congratulations. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce our newest Pentagon Police officers. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's ceremony. We will have a receiving line in the back of the room. Please stop by and congratulate our new officers. You're already standing so I can skip that. We are now going to have the departure of the official party followed by our new Pentagon Police officers. Chief Kusei, take charge of your troops. Family members, we are leaving these in place.  Please keep your badges in your pockets. Other than that, knock yourselves out.