We are an institute, the World Resource Institute, that seeks to intermediate between this amazing data and the decision maker, if you like. And I just want to give you a few examples of that. The United States made a decision that is as important as the technological advances. And that is, we are going to have open access data. And virtually everything I'll show you today is actually free. And that is an amazing thing. And now other countries, of course, are sharing this. Better data, better decisions. But first, let's just ask ourselves, why are we concerned? Well, the human footprint is growing very dramatically. This is in real terms. And just in the next 20 years, we will almost certainly see another doubling of the human economic footprint. Now, this is very good news because it's resulted in the biggest reduction in poverty and the history of the world. Never have we had two decades like we've just had where poverty has halved. And that is terribly good news. And it's an important theme this year of the Sustainable Development Goals. And of course, we've also seen that as people become less poor, they enter the middle class where used to be one billion in the middle class. It's two billion. It'll be up to five billion between 2030 and 2040. Again, very good news. When you enter the middle class, you use more energy. You buy more stuff. And especially you like to purchase these. And this puts a big pressure on the global environment. And it costs quite a bit in terms of human and economics. In addition to that, because we have more people, because they are wealthier, we are going to need to increase food consumption by about 70% between 2005 and 2050. This will require a rate of growth of food production greater than we've managed in the past, at a time when risks are growing. So what I would like to do is just give three examples here of how we use this kind of data in forests, in water, and in greenhouse gas emissions. And I'll say just a small word about the third, mainly on the first and second. So in the old days, people really had a hard time knowing what was going on.  As a result of that, every single minute of every single day, we've been losing 50 soccer fields. We've lost an area that is three times the size of Germany. And that's in large part because we didn't know, believe it or not. And so recently, we put together a partnership together with 60 institutions led by the World Resources Institute, but drawing upon scientific expertise from all around the world, private sector expertise like Google and Esri and Digital Globe. And it uses precisely the kind of thing that Kathy was talking about. Amazing advances in satellite technology, incredible advances in cloud computing, and amazing advances in digitalization, in communications, visualization, so that everyone on the planet can now know what is happening down to a 100 meter or 200 meter level, updated every three weeks. And three years from now, it'll be even more rapid, but it's not only satellites that give us data, it's citizens around the world where anybody with a GPS-linked smartphone can take a picture, write a story, and it gets uploaded. So it's the top down, the bottom up transformative database. So you can see we can measure it monthly, but this shows yearly data as deforestation takes place through the last decade. And you see that there's quite a bit of red as trees are cut down. And much of that is fine because it comes from plantations, and that is entirely appropriate. But in many places it comes from forests that nobody wants to actually cut down. So consider, for example, palm oil. It's by far the biggest cause of deforestation in Southeast Asia. Today we met with many of the major palm oil commodity traders and producers and consumers. They're all committed to do the right thing, almost all of them now. But until recently they haven't had a way of actually knowing. Now what we can do for Indonesia or anywhere else in the world, we can narrow down and we know where the oil palm concessions are. And we can then ask the question, what's actually happening to the forest areas? And we can put on national parks here and we can start seeing that actually deforestation is happening outside where it's allowed in illegal areas. And then we can ask the question, well let's go and look at some of these areas where clearly this shouldn't be taking place. And we can look at it in very great detail. And we can then actually, because we now have the data, at least for Indonesia, of which companies actually have which concessions. So what do you do with that information? Well what Unilever is doing is saying we're committed to deforestation free purchasing of palm oil. So any company that's misbehaving like that, that is built into the software that we use to purchase oil palm. So a transformative development. So too, a major problem as you know in Indonesia and Southeast Asia is fires caused deliberately to clear land and causing huge environmental and human costs. Last year schools in Singapore had to be closed down because of what was happening in Sumatra. So what we can do now, we can actually see these fires as they develop and we can analyze them. And then we can ask a commercial satellite producer, Digital Globe, and we can look at it in much, much more detail. We can go down to one half of a meter and we can look at precisely what's happening here. And we can ask, how did it happen and who's responsible for it? And this is very important for two reasons. One, it enables the response to be much quicker. So here, for example, just in the last year, we've seen a reduction in response time by over 80% because the Indonesian government developed this with us and they are now using this. And so this prevents fires from spreading. In addition to that, we can use it to actually help countries prosecute the bad guys. Singapore doesn't want to have to close its schools. So it passed a law this last year that enabled prosecutions to take place and this data can be used very much, by the way, with the blessing of Indonesia because it wants to do the right thing. But in addition to that, journalists, communities can all use this data. This is an example. We've now had many, many stories that have come out where journalists wouldn't have known where deforestation was taking place. They now do. They're able to write stories and go to the right place. We live in a transformative time. The good news is it's not only deforestation that this can measure. We're starting to be able to get the ability to measure reforestation. Harder to do and it takes more time. But what we're seeing is that there is now a revolution that is incipient, getting underway to ask the question, why do we allow 2 billion hectares of the world which we've mapped that are degraded? Why do we allow that wonderful natural capital to go to waste twice the size of China? Wouldn't it be smart to actually invest in that, restore it to good agriculture, restore it to forests? And so we've had this wonderful commitment made at the Secretary General's summit in September. 350 million hectares would be restored by 2030. And so what we're seeing is countries now are coming forward and saying, we now get it. Here's Latin American countries. Just last month, eight Latin American countries at the Lima COP came forward and said, counters in for 20 million hectares. Here's the important point. Private investors came to the table and said, look, we're willing to put in up to $365 million and over time, and here's the point I want to make, over time we'll be using remote sensing to enable us to see this happening, hold each other accountable, and before long we'll be able to use it for carbon markets because the development that is now very much on the horizon is not only to see almost every tree from satellites, but in addition to that to know how much carbon is in each tree. So you can imagine a situation in which those countries that want to compensate other countries for protecting their forests or for restoring their forests will be able to do this very, very easily. Let me move on quickly to water risk. About four years ago, a few companies, Goldman Sachs, GE, Shell, came to us and they said, we're concerned about water risk, but what is it? Water risk is very location specific. How do we get a handle on it? We look at the 15,000 major aquifers in the world and using modeling techniques and remote sensing, we are able to show just where the risk is greatest. We have 12 different indicators, both quantity and quality of water. It's called aqueduct. And as a result of this, and because private companies now recognize that water is a very serious commercial risk, as shown by the risk assessment that remember the World Economic Forum does every year, water, the number one risk. So dozens and dozens of companies are now using this technique to measure water risk. And just a couple of months ago, the Bloomberg Terminals said, we're getting such a lot of interest from our clients on water risk. We want to actually put this data on the terminals and it's not because we're environmentalists, it's because this is about good business decisions. So all of a sudden 300,000 investors are getting access to water risk data. And what we can do with this is not only for a company, but for a country as well, we can ask the question, well it's interesting, in South Asia, the average hectare of rice currently feeds about 26 people. By the year 2050, it'll probably have to feed about 40 people at a time when water risk is growing. This helps you think through the irrigation strategy, helps you think through food security and so on, to empower decisions. So too, for example, look at energy. This is a map for China of water risk, looking at all of their aquifers. You can ask the question, well, where is the coal going to be mined? And how much water do we need for coal power plants? So the Chinese government's now using this model in order to help them think through energy security issues, as they certainly should. We've done this work overlaying on shale worldwide, and you see that about 40% of all the shale that we know exists, shale gas in the world, is actually in pretty high stressed areas. And therefore, don't count on it to provide the energy security that we'd all hoped for. And so we can go down at a great deal of here, here's the data, a great deal of detail, and see exactly what is going on. For the future, in a couple of months, we are going to launch these same maps, but using projections. Taking the IPCC scenarios, we're able then to take this quite sophisticated analysis, again, from remote sensing and from ground data, and we're able to project what would happen, not today, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, and so on. And that in turn is going to be pretty transformative in the way we look at food security, energy security, and our way of life. Cities around the world are also now taking this data very, very seriously. Just a final word on greenhouse gas emissions. I think everybody knows that climate change is a very, very serious issue. Until 10 years ago, we really didn't know terribly well how to measure greenhouse gases. Over the last 10 or 15 years, we've developed a quite a sophisticated way to measure at the country, company, and now city level, and you can go to databases that we and others run, and you can look at the national level and so on, and you can look at the company level too, and this is very good. There's now sort of very comprehensive agreed approaches, and that is now used in negotiations, and it's very important. A recent development in Lima just last month, we all agreed on a common protocol for cities to measure their greenhouse gases, and this is important because almost 300 major cities have now signed up to the Compact of Mayors, which says we are going to, on an annual basis, be transparent about the greenhouse gases we emit, we're gonna have targets, and we're gonna hold ourselves accountable to achieve them. So this is very good news, but this is all measured from Earth at the moment, and an interesting development is when will we be able to have data from remote sensing that will enable us to know in some detail. Now there is, as Kathy said, there is a carbon observatory that's now circling the Earth that can for the first time ever measure columns of carbon dioxide, and so this potentially will be a real game changer. As I said before, very soon we'll be able to do it with forests, and that will enable us really to know at a great deal of detail exactly what's happening to greenhouse gases. So this is a very major issue for us. In terms of what's next more broadly, let me just make a couple of final points here. Kathy made the point that satellites don't solve problems for us. They don't actually even give us information. They give us data which has to be turned into information which has to be then made available in a way that decision makers can do something about it. And the trick is to bring to decision makers the right mix of data. This merges data from satellites together with data, a huge amount of data from on the ground, and then overlaying it so that decision makers can make the right decision. Second sort of closing point I wanted to make is that we tend to think this is just for very sophisticated people and groups and economies. This is a city in India, and these are the auto rickshaws. They all now have GPSs, and as a result of that, they are able to be instructed to go where they're more likely to get a ride. Consequently, we can now track the fact that they can use satellite information, gets them more money, it gets people to work quicker, it reduces congestion, and is generally a beneficial thing. And there are thousands of such examples, of course. Just let me close though at the other end of the sophistication scale where I think you probably know in New York City, for example, 10,000 internet hotspots are about to be established in New York City. Combined with developers like Stephen Ross, who is currently putting together the most, or the largest real estate private development in the history of the United States, Hudson's Yards, which will be the most monitored piece of real estate in the world. Everything from vibration to carbon emissions to energy to traffic, which combined also with a lot of satellite data, will enable it to have an environmental footprint much, much less. Let me conclude, we believe that better data, better decisions, a better future. Thank you very much. Thank you.


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My first ever comment from YouTuber Reading Classics who mentions the idea that many people are masters of suffering. And I like the idea of training and education. The idea that everything we do is our training and our education. And we can look at it that way. It's putting in the hours. It's going to class. It's going to the gym. Everything we do is like that. And whether we apply it towards useful skills, general conditioning, or towards things that are less helpful and even self-destructive, all these things we can choose to study and train in. And that can be useful to think of, no matter what I'm doing, it is some kind of training and some kind of education. So if I think of actually exercising, actually going through a fitness routine, that is training where it is dedicated, structured, designed towards a particular positive result. General strength, fitness, weight loss, muscle growth, skills, athletics. All of these things can be developed through an exercise program. But if we, instead of exercising, play video games, then we are also working out. I used to enjoy joking about working out my thumbs, the old video game thumb, working on my hand-eye coordination, and working on the skill of sitting in a comfortable chair and not moving my lower body at all. The skill of being sedentary. Okay, sometimes it's a stretch to see it as a skill, but in a sense we, because it's very easy, I guess the things that are real training, real education, are difficult to do. And so that really makes them feel like we're training for something new and difficult. But the easy things, which are also training, are very easy. It's like an exercise program where you show up at the gym and they hand you a beer and a bag of popcorn and point you to the TV lounge and say, go entertain yourself for the next several hours. There's your exercise program. That's a very easy program, really easy to get on board with that. Now of course the results may be different than the results of a difficult athletic program. Just like we can use that analogy of athletic training exercise, there's also the analogy of education. Everything we do is our education. So we can pursue a master's degree in an academic subject and conduct in-depth study, reading for hours every day, writing precise and intricately developed research papers, memorizing and writing exams, practical procedures, learning them, all of these things we can put in this effort and then we, at the end of it, can declare ourselves educated in some way, declare that we have this degree in some skill. Well, it's also possible to put in the hours of watching TV. Think of all the shows that there are to watch. Think of your curriculum as being, each class is like a different TV show and you have to get through the TV shows. Each show is like a lecture, final exam at the end of each season. Your final exam is to watch the final episode or however you want to break it down and you put in the hours, you put in the hard work sitting on that couch, watching those flashing lights and listening to the recorded sound and at the end of hundreds and hundreds of hours, you can declare yourself, at some point to be a master of watching television. A lot easier to do, pretty easy university to get into. Of course, the results at the other end may not be quite the same as the difficult academic or practical program that you might have taken. So we have this option at any time. We have the gym of laziness and the university of the couch and we can get our exercise programs, we can get our degrees in these things just far more easily than we can in real difficult training. I've focused on the ideas of laziness, like video games and TV, but it's also the same in our thoughts. If we think negative thoughts regularly for hours, if we think thoughts about how we're no good and the world is against us and there's no point, I'm not worthy, those kind of negative thought cycles, they really can go for hundreds, thousands of hours and it really can be like its own advanced training program in being miserable. So whatever we're doing, we're training for something. Whatever we're doing, we're learning something all the time.


Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2019 here in Budapest, Hungary, and I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio this afternoon by Alan Abdullah, who is the CEO of Bahasu in Indonesia. Welcome to the studio. Thank you. Now let's talk a little bit about, so you've just come out straight out of a panel session. Have you here at Telecom World? Yes, I just did actually. Tell us a little bit about Telecom World. I was really nervous actually. It's actually my first panel and it was international and I was sitting with people with much more experience. And I am especially in the topic because my background is actually in education technology and the topic today was AI. But yeah, it was a great session. I think a lot of the audience was involved. So it was looking at AI and gender mainstream, gender bias, I should say. Yeah, so when I first got the topic, I didn't even know that there was gender inequality in artificial intelligence technology. And I needed to make sure and I asked actually the people that was watching us, I put it up on the floor and I'm like, who before this panel knew about this? And there was like only two hands out of 30 people. Right, amazing. And what were some of the key takeaways from that session? I mean, my personal one was that it has to start from awareness. I mean, when people in the ITU who's joining the forum wasn't even aware about it, I think awareness should be the foundation first. And then obviously regulation and everything else comes to play. So it's basically the session was saying or talking about the fact that there is gender bias in AI that essentially that it's choosing men over women. Where is the bias? It was more to the AI technology focusing our targeting more to men and more favorable than women. I see. Okay. All right. Well, absolutely. I don't think it's just just in AI, of course. So, you know, a lot of other things to tell us a little bit about Bahasa and what does Bahasa do? So Bahasa is actually an education technology. So we start with language. We partner up with the University of Indonesia, which is the leading in the university. We create a platform where it's interactive. It's fun. And then basically and the people or our users will get a certificate from the University of Indonesia when they complete the course, which of course they can use to apply for jobs and everything else. Okay. And how's it been going? How far have you spread this net? So currently we have around 500,000 users. So half a million. The pie is much bigger. But I'm proud to say that we are also helping the areas in the rural areas together with Bhakti come to our pavilion and know more about Bhakti. Basically, when I first had a meeting with them, they explained to me that they put in over a thousand schools free internet. And then I asked them, I'm like, what do you do afterwards? They're like, oh, no, we just put internet. And I'm like, you know, that code is just going to be ended up on doing people doing social media and such, right? So from that, we became we became the content partner. So we actually develop a platform where it has what do you call it offline mode like Spotify. So these students in the rural areas, like I'm talking about really rural, like people go into school and like little, you know, wooden boats and stuff like so they can go there and then they can download it from the government's free internet. And then they can like learn when they're home. So we're right now currently in over 500 schools in the rural areas. Which innovation do you think is going to be key to connecting the unconnected? That's that's that's a tough question. I think every, every startup have different key factors. Education for one is obviously our platform. Bahasa is self-learning and people in India is not yet used to self-learning. Like, you know, when we're talking about first world countries or more modern countries, the people they have online classes since like college. We don't have that in India. So to kind of push them towards self-learning to actually take their time from what's playing games or whatever and actually go to an education technology platform and spend their time there. Instead of playing games and everything was it's yeah, it's we're still trying to do that. What about language barriers? What about the content that is that is online? How much does it help to have local content in local language? Yeah, that's the thing, right? I'm lucky enough that I grew up in an international school. So that kind of pushed me also to helping the whole Indonesia know English because I think it's unfair that I have access to so much more information than the others just because of language. You know, I understand that it's difficult because in Indonesia, you don't have to know English. It's different where when, for example, in India, they talk with each other in their language. But when it comes to the Supreme Court and everything else, it's an English. So by default, they have to learn English that doesn't that that's not there in Indonesia. So but I think it's important. It's globalization. It's, you know, everyone should have the same opportunity for information and everything else. And for startups, how important is government support or investment in keeping that continuity and keeping the energy going? Of course. I mean, government support is huge in startups like the regulation and everything else is it's it's it's something new. So government support in terms of like telling us startups was going on and then bringing us to forums like this and everything. I think it's it's it's very key. And in terms of investment, yes, it's it's it's a it's a battle of the fittest. 95% of startups in my stage. That's that's the failure rate 95%. So right now they're calling my startup in the valley of death. And this is worldwide, not just Indonesia. So when it comes to investment, it's really important because that's that's what drives you like to to innovate.  And what about following G is 5G going to open up lots of opportunities for you, do you think? I think it would help more internet access obviously would help because the bottom of the pyramid is actually the biggest population in Indonesia. So I think access for internet all over Indonesia would be helpful to both the users and us startups in terms of 5G. For me, I don't think and for Bahasa, I'm speaking for Bahasa as well. I don't think it would make that big of a difference because right now not even all of our areas get 3G's. You know what I mean? So some of them are still on, you know, 2G 3G's. So even 4G they don't they don't have access yet. So for the government to focus on making it 5G, I think only a certain amount of people will enjoy it. And of course it's important for enterprises and businesses, but for the mass, I don't think it should be the main focus. What's been your impression here of ITU Telecom World? It's fun. I mean, I thought coming to a, you know, like a conference or exhibition would be very tense and everything. And then going around you see people sitting in beanbags and people just actually having fun networking and everything. I think ITU is a very great platform. It's not just for business to business. It's not just for government to government. But actually people and startups like me get so much opportunity from this ITU. Great. Well, thank you very much for joining us in the studio. We're not sitting on beanbags here, but maybe next time. I'll make some recommendations. Okay. Well, thank you very much for joining us. We wish you all the very best for the future and hopefully we'll catch up with you again at another ITU Telecom event. Thank you. Thanks a lot.


Your coca-cola bottler presents, Claudia, based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken. Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola. Relax, and while you're listening, refresh yourself. Have a Coke! And now, Claudia. Oh, come on. I have another cup of coffee, Roger. Yeah, come on, Roger. I have one. I didn't realize you were left-handed, Roger. Left-handed? I am not left-handed. You must be, even if you don't know it.  Oh, that. It's not a choice, and it is awkward. Your right arm's out of commission, is that it? Just slightly. That's why you were tossing around and not sleeping, as you said. Go to the head of the class, David. Well, what is the matter with your arm, Roger? Touch of the rightist. And that's all we're going to say about it. Not another word. Your rightist, eh? Since when? I must have gotten into a draft or something. I haven't seen a doctor yet, Roger. I haven't had a chance. Just came over me. Well, maybe it's not an rightist. What else could it be? Maybe you slept on your arm wrong, or something. Claudia, incompetent as I may be in many ways. I don't usually go around sleeping on my arm wrong. Well, I guess you don't, or you'd have known it before. Well, look, Roger, I don't pretend to be a doctor, but maybe Claudia's right in it. Isn't your rightist? Hmm, suggest something pleasant there? Well, what I mean is it may be immobilizing you on that way, and keeping your hand in your pocket is just the wrong thing for it. Yes, it might be. If it isn't your rightist, maybe you ought to even use it. It's more comfortable this way. Well, I know it's more comfortable. Look, David, just one more word before we close this subject forever. I am not a weakling. Neither am I an ancient. Nevertheless, my constitution is such that I am constantly plagued with ills of various natures. Having ascertained that I am not a happy country act, that's a person who always thinks he's sick and isn't done. I know what a hypo-hypo-hypo thing to do. You seem to. I have made a business of not feeling well more comfortably than any other man I have ever known. Oh, look, it's a beautiful day, Roger. And that's all we're going to say about it. It's a very lovely day, and the sun is warm. Well, good for the sun. Now, I tell you what, I have to go up to the barn and I'll give Fritz a hand with a few things up there, and you can come along and watch. I do not want to go with you. I'm going to stay right here and pamper myself to my heart's content. You run along, David. Oh, it's such a beautiful day, too. It seems a shame to waste it in the living room, Roger. Each to his own. Well, I think that taking a walk can make you feel like a new man, Roger. But would that be any improvement? David, you take him. He's hopeless. Now, look, seriously, Roger. All right. Anything to prevent a lecture. I shall take a walk. I don't believe it. A small walk. I'm not coming up to the barn with you to break my back in labor, but I shall take a walk. Have a nice trip? I know I won't feel any better for it. I know that this is probably the worst thing for minor writers. I know I shall forget and regret this, but I will take a small... Oh, there, friend. Tucker here. Oh, Mr. Tucker. Hello. Mr. Yamblin, Mr. Killian. No place special. Then you are Yamblin for sure. Is that an ax you're holding in your hand, Mr. Tucker? An ax, it be, friend. I'm chopping up some firewood, I am. Your chopping wood? You don't think I'm going to hire a man at a dollar an hour to chop it for me, do you? Well, it seems to me you're... As for hired help, it's more work than doing it yourself. Got to see how they earn their pay. No, I chop it myself, I do. But isn't it a little late for you to be... Well, this ain't the first I chopped this season. Ain't that?  Side-jaw's itching to work up a good sweat. Nothing like it to make a man feel less in his age. Not that his age has anything to do with the way he feels. No. Much. What's that you're saying? Stop whispering there.  Some folks is so cussed, mean that whispers those in the man will think he went and lost his hearing. But I didn't say anything. You haven't given me the chance to say anything. Anything special you wanted to say? No, but... Well then, what are you beefing about? But I... Some folks always complaining. I hold a conversation with them, all they do is complain. I give up. Yeah, I had a couple hours between feeding the pigs and milking the cows and reparting in for lunch, so I set my hand to chopping wood. Hey, what's the matter? Why the funny look onto your face? There ain't nothing humiliating about a man chopping his own wood to your way of thinking, is there? On the contrary, Mr. Tucker, I was only standing here my jaw dropping in admiration of your vitality. Sure is a highfalutin' sentence. I take it you're meanin' to the man of my age don't usually go around choppin' his own wood, hey? Is it wise? Is it healthy? Well, sure is wise. Saves me a pretty penny. That's for it bein' healthy. There ain't nothin' like a bit of exercise to set your blood to flowin' through your veins. And just so that it doesn't overflow. Nope, I wouldn't say that any man ever heard himself by bendin' the muscle. Matter of fact, he most men get carried off to their graves without their having used up even a half of their stamina and their muscle. I've always thought by the time a man gets carried off to his grave, he'd used himself up completely. Oh, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a fallacious idea, that is. Most people even die with a pool set of teeth into their heads, pools. They ain't had sense to wear out their uppers and lowers. Well, that's a new way of looking at it. Well, lots of folks get their cells buried when they can hear and see just about as good as it cold. Now, I'm asking you, Mr. Killian. There's an architect, that is. Ain't that a waste of perfectly good apparatus? I hadn't thought of it like this before. Yeah, you won't catch Jared Tucker makin' that mistake. No, sir, you won't. When I get carried off to be planted beneath the petunias, won't be buried nothin' worth more than about five cents. That's an ambition worth working for, I must say. Already used up my teeth. Yeah, I'll warm right down to the nub before I let the medico pull him out. Now I'm gettin' shows he can't see, so go down to my left eye. Right one's just as sharp as a fox, though. And as for me here, there ain't no rooster crowin' in the mornin' far up his bridge part. It don't wake me up. Then according to your plan, Mr. Tucker, you have a great many years and parts left to work your way through. Oh, I'm only 86. Some folks like to make up stories, say, I got one foot closer to 95, but that's just a lot of hogwash. I ain't a day older than 86. I ain't a day younger either. And I dare say you'll still be chopping wood at 90. Darn tootin' a will. I wish that I had your conceit and some of your muscles. Well, you'll never have any muscle if you just stand around talkin' about it, except the muscles in your jaws. I'm afraid convictions must come first. Well, then, man, convict yourself. Convict yourself. Here's Max. Your axe? Well, what do I want with your axe? There's a wood pile. Start choppin'. You mean eyes would chop the wood? It was just sayin' you would like to follow my example. Matter of fact, them what does like Tucker does does right. Couple with you, Mr. Killian. You've been an architech too long. Time you stopped tellin' folks what to do and started doin' them yourself. Now, you grab the axe like so. But I don't want to grab the axe. Your wantin' ain't got nothin' to do with it. Grab it, I say. I wouldn't even be able to lift it up. The grandpappy died when it was 96. So? He died choppin' wood. That's a pleasant thought for a man who's about to hold his first axe. He don't have any ambition to live until you're 96, do ya? Yes, but not to die now, choppin' wood. Grab the axe. Grab the axe. Enough of this here, pal of it. But, Mr. Tucker, let me explain to you. I can hardly take my right arm out of my pocket. I have a very severe case of neuritis. Neuritis is boulder-dash. That's what it is. It may be boulder-dash to you, but it ain't in the neck to me. Exercise, son, exercise, it's a cure of all ills.  Right out of your system, it's the same principle. I am not convinced.  Walkin' round pampering yourself like this, you ain't no better in a warm corpse. These compliments, Mr. Tucker, are quite turning my head. Think nothin' of it, son. I'm a free man with words. Don't cost me a thing.  It's for your own good. If you've got any sense, you'll do just as I say. Don't you think I'm a good specimen of a man, Freddy Six, eh? Well, I've never seen a fitter. As a matter of fact, your energy is one of the things that speaks louder than your words. I'm half-dempted. Oh, but no, it's ridiculous. I could no more lift this axe. You don't grab hold of it. It's gonna drop on your toe and chop it clean off. All right, give it here. I'll try and... Oh, good lord, it weighs a ton. You're holding it fine. Now, swing it up over your shoulder. Swing this thing up. Correct. Heave-ho. Oh! And down it comes on this earlobe. Ah! Ah! Ha-ha. That wasn't too bad. Now, lift it up. Ah! And down it comes. Ah! Lift it up. Ah! Down it comes. I'll be gall-danged if you ain't a wood-shopper to heart. Hey, David, come over here a second. I wonder what could have happened to Roger. I don't know. He left the house for a short walk over an hour ago.  No, no, no. That's absurd. Well, he wasn't feeling well before he left, remember? Don't let a little new ride us in his right arm. He'll be back. I'm not going to worry about it. Much. You know, you've been staring out of that open window for ten minutes. It's just that it isn't like Roger that takes such a long walk. If there's anything he hates, it's exercise. He's sweet. He reminds me of a cauliflower. Sort of white and... Killian, here. Open the door. The door's open. I'm back. Come on in. Where on earth have you been, man? I've been working on the railroad just down the roadway. To look at you and hear you, I'd say you found a tavern down the roadway. Not a bit of it. Oh, it's a glorious morning. I feel like a new man. And I must say you certainly look like a new man.  Your hair is all tuzzled. You look bursting with energy. I was. Oh, let me sit down. Right here. Well, what on earth have you been doing? Oh, nothing much. Listen, how's your arm, Roger? Well, it's pretty sore on my shoulder, but a good help, they saw it. Now, look, Roger, there's more to this than meets the eye, so come on, come on, confess. Come on, tell me, what have you been up to? I have been chopping wood. You have been what? I showed that Mr. Tucker a few things about chopping wood. I think I better sit down, too, David. Yes, I'm sold on it. Mr. Tucker has me sold on it. So do you are on what? Chopping wood. But you are. I thought you had new writers. You could hardly lift your cup of coffee this morning. You're right. I had no writers. I could hardly lift my coffee cup, so I lifted an axe instead. Well, how's your arm now? I notice it's still in your pocket. It's excruciatingly painful. I can hardly move it, but it's wonderful. No, no, it's wonderful, is it? Well, just tell me here and now exactly what is so wonderful about it. Don't you see, David, instead of the writers, I have a Charlie horse. Charlie horse? Yes. There's nothing healthier than a Charlie horse.  You ought to try it. I ought, you don't say. Well, I'll be. I will be gall-dinged. When the man of the house reports the busy details of his day, doesn't it sometimes occur to you that yours could match it? As you go about your many chores, why not stop once in a while the pause that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola? Delicious sparkling Coke helps you work refreshed, no matter what you're doing. Hold on there a moment, Mr. King. Why, certainly, Mr. Tucker, what's on your mind? That's Mr. Killian. Did he find his way home all right? Not only his way home, but his way to bed. It felt all right, though, wasn't it? Marvelously, marvelously exhausted and aching. He'll feel worse tomorrow, but the next day, busting with health. He ain't much of a wood-shopper. He's a city man right down to his shoe-tops. He ain't a bad sort, though. No, he ain't. Well, Claudia and David are very fond of him, you know. Well, their judgment's just about as good as mine, usually. As a matter of fact, Mr. Tucker, on Monday, as plans are being made for the Norton Thanksgiving dinner, we'll see just how good their judgment is. About the dinner? And about Roger Killian, too. I'll be around, but for the present, I've got to get back to my wood. No, no, thanks. I don't need any medicine. I'm feeling fine right now, and all I want to say in addition to this is that every day, Monday through Friday, Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola. So listen again Monday at the same time. And now this is Joe King saying, Orivoire, and remember, whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be, when you think of refreshment, think of Coca-Cola. For Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes, and ice-cold Coca-Cola is everywhere. The parts of Claudia and David on this program were played by Catherine Bard and Paul Crabtree, and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney. And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola.