Welcome back. Time for our first conversation. I guess it's comfortably seated and poised to give us this expert's opinion on an analysis of this. But let's quickly give you a background to our first conversation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday, promised to ensure credible conduct of this month's elections. Of course, I'm sure you're looking at next month's elections as well. The EFCC chairman, Abdul Rashid Bawa, gave that assurance at an Interfaith Peace Summit organized by the Nigerian Television Authority's Abrahamic Mission in collaboration with the Al-Habbiya or Al-Habbiya organization in Abuja. Now, in the same vein, the Inspector General of Police Usman Baba had last year at a one-day stakeholders' summit on addressing the influence of money in the 2023 elections said the police had devised strategies to arrest and prosecute politicians moving on election day with tons of cash for vote-buying. He said we'll ensure that at least this menace is brought to the bare minimum his words. Now, we can say indeed that vote-buying poses an existential threat to free, fair, credible elections in Nigeria. How can this be curbed? Joining a conversation this morning on curbing vote-buying in Nigeria's forthcoming general elections is Dr. Moshala Deji, a political scientist, joining us live from Marina Bay in Singapore. Dr. Deji, good morning to you. Thank you very much for your time. Good morning. Thank you for having me. When you hear the Inspector General of Police sounding so passionate and talking about vote-buying on election day, you hear the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission through its chairman talking about curbing vote-buying and all sorts at such attempts to scuttle elections. Do you feel confident that this can be achieved talking about curbing vote-buying in Nigerian elections? Well, I don't feel confident that curbing vote-buying can achieve if and to go by the word of the head of the security agencies because time and again we've had them as young Nigerians, we are young Nigerians who've come up with strategies, different strategies, counter-strategies to call vote-buying, but again and again the issue of vote-buying has come up repeatedly in the Nigerian political sector. So I see it as knowing what to do, knowing that function, but really to do it or just try to make promises so that Nigerians would say that they've not done anything. So not until I see real practical examples of vote-buying being caught of a situation whereby anybody that is found with humongous cash is being dealt with by the security agencies.  That's when I'll begin to believe that a national is being taken. For now I think it's just lip service because everyone is benefiting from the system. It teaches political parties who it's like an illegal or ratified practice in our electoral system. So I believe that the instrumental and the chairman of PFCC are just saying lip service. Precisely during the primaries, vote-buying was prevalent even at the primary level to the tune of dollars. So if they are now coming now to say okay we are going to call vote-buying. The question is what has changed? For me I still believe in the system being put in place in terms of the Naira policy. I still believe in that more than the action of the security agencies because let me forget, the end of security agencies I just won't pass it. And like every other organization in Nigeria, we have people that are ready to compromise. So even if the end of security agencies are not willing to compromise, what about their voice? That will be pushed into different states, different words, different local government areas. And we have thousands of phoning units across the country. So we can't really say that this will be defective because even if it ends, we are not willing to compromise. What about their subordinate? So for me, I think vote-buying will be a difficult practice to call, except if we use like a system strategy, like this issue of the designing of Naira and the web, it's difficult for politicians within a short period of time to imagine the amount of money. Dr. Deji, let's get to that. Now that you have mentioned the Naira redesign, you have also stated that you don't believe that we can achieve, I mean it's possible for us to get into an elections without vote-buying. But you're also saying that you don't believe in the Naira redesign policy, which is actually predominantly meant to, you know, cobb vote-buying in the foot-coming elections. Well, I believe in the Naira redesign policy more than the words of the head of security. And do you think that that can help us achieve, you know, or cobb vote-buying or tame it, however you put it? Well, it can help us vote vote-buying because it's the new policy. Before, by 2027, Naira politicians, they are funding out that implies a means, another means to kind of like engage in electoral practice. But for now, because the Naira redesign is a new policy of government and a new Naira not yet to circulate widely, you know, you need billions of Naira for vote-buying. So I believe that now the Naira is traceable, it is trackable, so it might cobb vote-buying to some extent if government is willing to really stand its ground. But if by another election cycle, definitely the politicians would have found their way around it. But for now, I think it is effective. I just think that the Naira, that Nigerians are not available for Nigeria to spend now, we won't be seeing that Naira on the election day. That is my fear. I just hope that the CBN is being feared to hope political parties are Nigerians. If the Naira is not available, then who is not available for everybody? For a situation whereby on the election day, as we are seeing in party now, they have made Nigerians not available for Naira to spend. But we see rich kids spraying the new Naira not yet. What is the ceremony? I pray that we shouldn't see that on the election day because it should be a clear place of sabotage against the system and the Nigerian people. But if the government stands its ground and the system maintains the pace at which it is going, it will do a very large extent called vote buying. And that will, in turn, on the long run, have effect on performance in office. Because we can hypothesize that if you spend less, maybe you will still less. We may not be able to call stealing totally. But if you spend less, maybe you will still less. And at the end of the day, in terms of performance, if you know that money cannot win you that political power that you are looking for, you will increase your performance to appease people. So now that the chances of vote buying is getting slim, we can see that politicians have devised a new strategy, which is to use columnar campaign to hire influencers to dig deep into the background of their opponents in order to create a bad impression of the opponent in front of the electorate. That is the new strategy that I think the politicians are using now to sway the mind of the voters. Since you can use what the voters need most, apparently which is Naira, and they are now using the columnar campaign to malign the image of their opponent so that they can see that they want to vote for as bad. Dr, you talked about swaying the mind of the voters and that caught my attention. We have spoken to several politicians, several people who have been in politics have left those who occupy an office currently not occupying.  It's not the voters whose minds are being swayed.  They will tell you, you're not serious. What have you come with? Give us something, find us something. So, I mean, should we be looking at the attitude of values of the voting public as well in this conversation on vote buying and the demands made by the people who are going out to vote from or the candidates and those who come to campaign to them? I absolutely agree with you that we need to look at the perspective of voters, because in fairness to the politicians, there are some citizens that when you are going to political office, they even expect you to steal. Strong citizens don't know performance by how well you can steal. Strong citizens cannot even distinguish the function of a particular office from the other. Some time ago, we saw this senator, Senator Bukatua, a conversation that leads between him and the member of his constituent, asking the senator to please help him because he wants to get married. So, you begin to ask yourself, how does he, a constituent, get him married as to do with legislative duties? How can, how many weddings would Senator Bukatua be able to sponsor? So, it can only be through a corrupt process. So, the citizens themselves, at some point, as this aspect of expectancy, they're expecting you to kind of like bring something to give them something. And that is only influenced by one, poverty through disorientation theory and education. So, I like the fact that you have mentioned poverty in the course of this conversation. Remember, Vivid Leader, those statistics that was revealed in 2022, 63% of persons living within Nigeria, approximately 133 million persons are poor, multi-dimensional poverty. And so, how can we separate, you know, vote buying from, you know, poverty? It feels like it's a, it's, it's a twin business. Poverty and, and not, not to be very honest, people are really hungry. I mean, this, this is not to make, you know, an excuse, but how can you separate that when someone is hungry, very hungry? I mean, there haven't been opportunity to come into whether or not it's just going to be for a day, whether the bag of rice would last for just two hours or less than, or two days. So, how, how do we take out poverty from vote buying? Well, sincerely, it's very difficult to separate poverty from vote buying. Because if people start the essentials, if one talks to people that actually are doing it on the basis of what they need to survive, like food, definitely in this team, someone that wants to offer them the food or what they can use to buy the food, they will show them the meaning of that person. So, but something, it is quite difficult for me to separate vote buying from, vote buying from the, of the politicians. So, to say, but what I think we can do is to have a system that works. If we have a system that works, that it will be difficult for you to kind of like bridge that system. For example, if the politicians know that if somebody votes, you cannot know how the person has voted, then you will be kind of reluctant to buy the vote of the person because you can't really verify. For example, in advanced tribes, you can sit down in the comfort of your room, log on on your phone or computer and cast your vote. So, if I'm sitting in the comfort of my room, how do you know who I voted for? So, you will be reluctant to kind of like induce me to vote. But if we have this a case system whereby on the session, everybody has to kill, and we have policemen that are willing to compromise other politicians that are willing to compromise whereby we need to show who we have voted for. Definitely, that will encourage good buy. So, I think technology has a major role to play. The lesser people we have on the Cuban election day, definitely has an influence on the aspect of vote buying. Because if we cut them simultaneously within the comfort of their sitting room, as it's been done in advanced tribes, they will be very willing to show their will by giving. But you know that vote buying does not just happen. I mean, vote buying doesn't really happen on the day of the elections. So, there's pre-vote buying and then, you know, there's vote buying proper on the day of the election. So, I think that we have always thought about vote buying just limited on the day of the elections where you're being given cash, whatever it is for exchange of your vote. But it goes beyond that. I mean, even during the period of politicking, these are, you know, things that can entice the people. What's the essence of all of that? I mean, what you usually do not do, I mean, we see our campaigns like charity events. That's what our campaigns are about. So, you have people going to campaign in different villages.  So, how do we describe all of that? Do we, over time, limit vote buying to just the day of the elections? Because I think vote buying goes beyond the day of elections. So, there's pre-vote buying and it's, you know, vote buying on the day of elections. Yes. There's pre-vote buying and there's vote buying on the day of the election. But the most important phase in the vote buying process is decision points. The decision point when you are about to cast your ballot, who is looking at your account. That is what will come vote buying. For example, every woman likes to be free. If there's no job or if they don't believe that God is in heaven looking at them, what people will do will be different. People will have to just ask the way they're so pleased. So, if on election day you have the freedom, nobody's transmitting you, nobody's trying to verify your actions, I believe that most people would rather vote differently. But people answer tight because you need the money and people are there to verify your action before giving me the money.  But if you can get the money or the material item and they are not there where you are going to cast your vote, there's high probability that at that point, that decision point, you will want to force your mind. You won't put a vote against your budget because you know it has no consequences. Nobody's looking at you. Nobody can verify. And at the end of the day, it's just only has to be all around ratification. Yes, for your party where you might have done something else. So, I believe that to be of good time, we need orientation, we need more oriented things like this to not impact our own mind because politicians are sorry to say it like the devil. They have no freedom. If they give you something, it's like an investment. They will come back for it in million four. So Nigerians need to realize that. And if there's technology, technology doesn't need all of them in this 21st century. So, I believe that if Nigeria can increase its technological advancement politically, can have more oriented business, then vote buying would begin to reduce. And if we have a working system, I want to see policemen colliding with politicians but vote buying being prosecuted at the election. I want to see politicians with humongous amount of money being prosecuted. And if I am to propose his legislation, I would propose that there should be a law that on election day, if you have formed with more than 5,000 Nigerians, it should be prosecuted. Because it is believed that the polling unit will naturally be close to your house. Even if you are traveling, maybe from get us to maybe your show states now to cast your vote, it is believed that you won't travel on that election day. You would have traveled before the election day. So, if you have traveled before the election day and your house is close to the polling unit, even if that's the worst case scenario, you want to take maybe a bike or something, you can spend more than 5,000 Nigerians or 1,000 Nigerians. So, what are you doing with 100,000 or 1 million in your pocket? So, if we have a law that on election day, the money that must be found on you must not be more than maybe 3,000 or 4,000 Nigerians. That would be a long way to come for the fine. That would be a long way to come for the fine. Interesting. We don't have laws to change that. So, not that if I am free on the election day to be moving about 5 million Nigerians. What am I doing with 5 million Nigerians? Dr. Deji, what you have talked about is very ideal. But you know, you said the law enforcement agencies, Kazanik has his hands full, the political will or the will, and even the personnel to be able to do that. The EFCs talked about deployment of a personnel around the country. One wonders if they have enough personnel to go to every polling unit. So, they can't possibly be everywhere. But you've talked about technology. You've talked about also orienting the people, make sure they understand the dangers of vote buying, and that your politician gives you 5,000 or 2,000 or whatever it is. I don't know how much he gives these days.  But we hear people say, collect the money and vote your conscience. Collect the money and vote your conscience. Does that work for you? It works for me, but it's really difficult for you to collect the money and vote your conscience because Nigerian politicians, they are pretty smart. They know that Nigerians that they are dealing with are smart people. They can collect the money and vote for another party. That is why more party agents would say after casting your vote, before you come and collect the money, try to flush us. Let's see all the papers so that we can know whether you have voted for us or not. So, in that case, it is very difficult for you to kind of like vote your conscience. And sincerely, we have a kind of like society that encourages such in the sense that if somebody collects money, let's say this or that, vote now. The person will go into the community to eliminate it. That's the extent of poverty we find ourselves in. You eliminate it and have collected money, go and collect yours too, and you begin to feel inferior if you don't join them. So, the rate of poverty itself is very, it makes it difficult for people to kind of like have a clear conscience of your home. Because if their homes in Nigeria, that's rice, it's valuable commodity.  But there are people in our country that 5,000 Naira to them means a lot of money, especially in Nigeria. We have to go now. But just before we go, in less than a minute, I'd like you to show your thoughts. You have mentioned technology. And we know that in the 2023 elections, we'll be deploying the beavers for these elections. Do you think that the beavers would help stop reading plus vote buying? Well, the beavers wouldn't stop vote buying. But the beavers can help to cope reading in terms of the manipulation that occurs at a collision point. A system, wherever we have people saying they are carrying a result from word to word. Look at government and the only one in the figures, the beavers will have to solve that. But my fears, just the beavers, is the tribunal judgment in Oshusti that despite the beavers, there is a negation of electoral practice that gives me serious concern. And I think I need to look at the system again, the reaction of Nigerians that the election is critical because, like any other election in the history of Nigeria, this election means so much to every upgrade in Nigeria based on this situation to find ourselves in the country to a very terrible situation like us. All right. Doc, a quick one, a final one from me. Some people have said accused some political parties of vote buying. Before the election, go out and canvass the votes. Or the canvass votes rather, they give out things, scholarships, they give out empowerment tools, sewing machines, tricycle rickshaws, what we call keke, and bags of rice, clothes to the women. And others say, you know what, this is not vote buying. I'm just simply doing empowerment. Do you agree with those who call that vote buying and should people reject those kinds of things close to the election? Well, I think there should be a timeline for empowerment in the sense that maybe a year before the election, you can't do any kind of like empowerment.  Nigerians must understand that vote buying goes beyond financial transaction. No. If I offer you rice, if I offer you beans, if I offer you sewing machine, it is still vote buying. It's not when I give you cash. And we need to now be looking at the intention behind the action. The intention behind the action is important. If any politician comes up now and look at the strategic person in the family and keep the person like a motorcycle, definitely we can safely assert that the politicians are not only trying to buy the loyalty of the person, they're trying to sway the influence of people around such a person because every person has family, friends and colleagues. So if you are benefited from a politician, if you are protected, a motorcycle or something, definitely you will go into the streets, starting in the places of that politician.  Another thing that is trending now is post-election vote buying.  After the election, we will give you this Toyota Corolla. That is a form of vote buying in itself. Another form of vote buying that I've been able to identify is that that goes on in the civil service whereby the hotel civil servant to go and win their constituents if they still want to retain their job. That to me is vote buying. Before you put the civil servant under pressure, when does winning your particular street ward or local government becomes a qualification for you to work in the government paracetam? So we have this trend for more. Vote buying that can only be checked if we are a sincere system that can really check this is an oriented citizen that can look beyond the immediate chain. Doc, interesting. Interesting. Very interesting indeed. Doc, we've overshot the time. We learnt a lot from what you've said today. Highly enlightening. I want to thank you very much for your time. Dr. Mochila Deji is a political scientist and he's been a guest all the way live from Singapore. Doc, thank you. Thank you very much for having me on stage. Well, that's the size of our conversation. At this point in time, we take a quick break. When we return, we'll be talking spots. 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Folks, we're looking at operant conditioning, right? So we've already talked about operant behavior. You can go look up all our videos on operant behavior, it's totally fine. In fact, you know, it's more than totally fine. It's required of you to go read those videos, read them, read them well. There's only one thing to read. Anyway, I digress because operant, because the environment shaped me to digress, that's why, that's really funny. And you'll find out why by the end of this video. All right, so anyway, operant conditioning, folks. We already know about operant behavior. That's the voluntary stuff. You emit behaviors, right? Yeah, you emit behaviors, you don't elicit them, right? So we have voluntary responding and the environment operates on that response. Of course, the environment is everything around you. We've talked about all that too. So the point to remember about operant conditioning is that we're talking about selection of the behavior. There are two or three, a whole bunch of other basic processes that get involved here, but the things you need to focus on is reinforcers. Reinforcers increase the probability of a response in the future, and that's something we need to remember. We can only, consequences of behavior only affect the future of the behavior. They don't affect the past. We can understand what might happen to a behavior by watching the consequences and then seeing the probability, or sorry, and then seeing those behaviors happen in the future. Anyway, we can talk about all that fun stuff later, but right now you need to know reinforcers, strengthen responses, punishers decrease responses, extinction does some other stuff and we'll get into that in a little bit, kind of does a little both. So what we really got to focus on then is that the consequence, the change behavior are those three things, but we're gonna focus on punishment and reinforcement. How does it all work? Well, it's a long story. In fact, it's so long that we decided to create an entire YouTube channel around it. So we're just gonna get into it a little bit today. First off, it's automatic. The organism does not have to decide to do this stuff. It just happens. They don't even have to be aware of it. Humans included, by the way, yes, you. You don't have to be aware of your behavior being reinforced for it to be reinforced. It just happens. That's just the way it is, okay? Same thing goes for punishment, right? So some other things we gotta think about here is that the consequences affect any behavior, right? Again, it's not one we choose, it's just anything. It doesn't even have to be logical, man.  You should see the position that Brad's in right now that will blow you away. He doesn't have to be logical for him to stand that way. It's just that it works, it functions. It gives us a hell of a beautiful shot and no one else is gonna be getting these kind of shots for various reasons because our reinforcement history is pretty freaking weird. Anyway, let's see what else. Immediately, absolutely important. The more immediate the consequences for the behavior, the bigger the effect, all right? Lots of reasons for that. We'll get into all that stuff in the future, maybe. Anyway, and then let's see what else. Gosh, I think that's probably about it. I think there was one more. Is it any behavior? Future behavior? Media, yeah, I think I've gone through them all, all right? So those are your basics of offering conditioning. And it's, again, it's about selection of consequences that has nothing to do with the organism deciding to do anything. So in reality, there's a lot of things that look like the organism is making a decision, but really it's just about what's happened to them in the past. And in the past, they've been reinforced for doing certain things and those things generalize. Oh, I forgot, one that responds classes, right? So the generalization prompted into my head. So response classes are what's selected for not an individual response. So how to write, not a specific particular pattern of writing, okay? So turning on the light switch like this or like this, it's the same function. So we focus on functions in the world, the function of behavior, and that's what we're talking about here. So let's put that big package together. Let's say offering conditioning, the modification of your voluntary behavior through the consequences, the interactions of your behavior with the environment. That's really what we're getting at. And I think we're just gonna come back later and talk about reinforcers and punishers. And for that, I'm outta here.


to enjoy life. Life with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Cy Howard and starring that celebrated actor Mr. J Carol Nash with Alan Reed as the quality. Luigi Vasco left Italy to start his new life in America. He promised his mother that he would write and tell her about his adventures. So now let's read Luigi's letter as he writes to Mama Vasco in Italy. Chicago is a big, wonderful city. But it's one thing not so good about a bigger city. Nobody is annoyed each other. In our little town in Italy, I'm a walk down the street and a smile. And everybody is a smile back. Over here if I'm a walk in a street and a smile, everybody thinks I'm a crazy. In a smaller town like ours, maybe it's not to have advantage of a big city like a Chicago, but it is so nice. You say hello to everybody, even a goat.  Over here, I'm a once to take off my hat, stand on the street and a smile. And what's to happen? In a half hour, I'm a collector 45 cents. For the trouble over here in Mamma Mia, is the people always in a big rush. Rush, rush, rush. They even have got a one hour special for rushing. That's the call the rush hour. It's for people who's forgot to rush during the day time so they get a one or more chance to catch up at night. Everywhere signs is a tell a people to hurry up to save the time. Get your hair cut in 15 minutes. Get your car washed in 12 minutes. Eat the busy bee lunch in 10 minutes. And yesterday I'm a cease cemetery advertisement that's to say, make a down payment and now why wait? You know Mamma Mia, I think it would be a wonderful thing if all of a sudden, everybody here is a stop rushing around for one minute and I say hello to the fellow standing next to him. Well, there's not time now for dreaming of Mamma Mia because it's time for me to go to my night school of class. So I'm a finisher my letter later. Class, let's have some quiet. Fine. I'll call the roll now. Mr. Basko? Here. Mr. Harwood? Here. Mr. Olson? Here. Mr. Schultz? Well, Mr. Schultz, you're here. Why don't you say here? I just want to break the monotony. All right, Mr. Schultz, enough of that, please. Now, class, before we begin our lesson, I think you might be interested in knowing that North Hall Stead Street, the very street where our school is located, will be 50 years old this week. Not the whole of Stead Street. That's where I'm going to my store. And that's where the Pasquale's got his spaghetti palace. Yes, and Mr. Schultz has his delicatessen there. Now, class, a little arithmetic. If the street was begun 50 years ago, who can tell me the exact year? I know. I know. I know. I know. Very good. Very good. Well, Mr. Schultz, the rest of the class knows the answer. Why don't you? Because it is my great enchantment in life to make other people look smarter. Good morning. I'll erase my hand first. Please, let me answer. There he goes, the quiz kid with Renglers. All right, Mr. Olson. Now, Hall Stead Street was begun 50 years ago. It's 1949 now, so what year would that be? 1899. Marked down for 1900. Mr. Schultz, please pay attention and learn something. Now, the 1890s were important years in our nation's progress. The automobile was invented in 1893. That's very good, Mr. Olson. Now, besides the automobile, does anyone know another invention of the 1890s? Yeah. Milani's 1890 French dress. Mr. Basco? Mr. Basco? Huh? You seem to be engrossed in something. Well, Miss Pauling, you tell us before the North Hall Stead Street is going to be 50 years old this week. Yes, that's right. Well, Miss Pauling, this city is so big. Must be there is another dozen of people on North Hall Stead Street who doesn't know each other. Imagine, people living right next to each other and they're strangers. Luigi, that's very true. What are you getting at, Mr. Basco? Well, I was thinking, why we don't have a big black party and everybody is a common eat and dance and a sing and everybody gets to know each other and be friends. Young Benjamin, let me do that. That was just a wonderful idea. Luigi, you deserve credit. Ah, Luigi, my friend, you got a brain. It's so smart, it should be in a bottle. I love black parties with the collet light strung across the street, people dancing all night.  How do you shoot that? That sounds expensive. Hotcakes and water are expensive. Now look, Luigi, don't worry about the expense. Smile. Put my own delicatessen, I will donate food and Pasquale, that sheep's gate, he'll donate too. I'll string up the lights and take care of the decoration.  Now I think the best way to handle this is to form a committee. Oh, you're spoiling. You hit the hammer right on the thumb. You're going to have a black party committee meeting right after class and everything's going to be arranged. Oh, sure, sir. I think you're wonderful. Oh, stop, Luigi. This is all your idea and if any credit must be handed out. Yes, sir. I want you to hand it to me. Oh, Pasquale, something wonderful has happened. I'm so happy I feel like it's singing. What's happened?  No, Pasquale, it's better than that. Monday night, Hollister Studios are going to have a birthday party. Stop! Street? Is it going to have a birthday? That's right. I suppose it comes at midnight, the fire hydrants are going to shake their hands with the lampposts. And maybe the mayors are going to go around kissing a manhole covers. Hello, Pasquale. Let me explain to you. Ms. Bollinger was a teller today how our street was started 50 years ago. So I say, why don't we have a black party and celebrate it? Oh, then it's a real thing. That's what I'm going to tell you. All it's going to tell is all the people. We're going to get the music. All the witches are going to put up the lights and the Schultz is ahead of the committee. Oh, that smart, delicate tassel, man. It's already take over, eh? Luigi, if you get a such idea, why you go to everybody else when you should come to me? Fellows will bring you from the older country. After all, I'm the most irrespective man here. Don't you know I'm ahead of the block? That's the right, Pasquale. I should have come to you. You're the real blockhead. That's a funny thing. When I'ma say it, it's to come out of different. Pasquale, I hope you're not mad because we figure you're going to give a lot of food for the party. Food for the party? I'm not going to... Shoo, shoo, Luigi. Not only am I going to give a food, but I'm going to see it's going to be music and people should have danced. Oh, Pasquale, are you going to hire orchestra? No, an organist. Organist, Pasquale, what for is an organist? Play, here comes the bride. Is it for my daughter Rosa? Huh? What is she going to marry? My son. Goodbye, Papa. Fool, you know Mara Rosa, you get a nut there.   I'm going to Pasquale, the people is already invited and I'm more ready to promise. Promise, promise, promise. Only promise I'm interested in is when you sing it to Rosa, oh, promise to me. Oh, Pasquale, I... Luigi, Luigi, everything is all arranged. Shoo, shoo, we got a no party. Pasquale is a no-giver food unless I'm Mara Rosa. Him? Hello, Shoo, what's the brought to you here? The stock. And what brought you here? I want your... Mr. Dalek, that's the man. Why are you flying off the handlebars?  Now, please, please, I shall see you making me blush. Luigi, you stay out of this. I don't concern you.     I'm going to start a fight.   Give my Rosa a ring, get her married, have a 10 or 15, a bambini. You raise your own block. Listen, Pascuali, stop playing ring around the Rosa. Are you giving in food for the party or no? Absolutely not. Mr. Dalek, that's the man. I'm leaving that a pleasure to you. You can give all the food you want.  Well, if that's the case, I'm giving nothing, not one stitch of salami. Oh, Schutzer, Schutzer, what are you saying? Just because a Pascuali is acting like that, you've got to act it the same way? That's right.  No use to talk anymore. Schutzer, Schutzer, please, sit down and go. I was going to give 500 vino schnittles. But after seeing the way Pascuali acts, I don't give a schnitz. He's the twice the jackass I am. You've got to get up early in the morning to do that. Hey, Luigi, come on. We can down at Dave's radio store. We'll watch the television in the window. They got a Western with some new Italian star. Half along a Cassini. Hey, Luigi, you want a jelly bean? Is your favorite flavor? Licorice. Oh, listen, Luigi. Forget there's a block of party eyes there about the people talking each other and being friends. You see anybody worried about you? In America, you worry about yourself. Just to make it a buck, keep your nose in your own plate. Hey, Luigi. Hey, Luigi. Using my handkerchief. I've got to get the good word to you that Luigi and his friends will be back on Tuesday night again over most of these same CBS stations. Remember, life with Luigi on CBS Tuesday nights. From now on. The second act of Luigi Pasco's adventures in Chicago, we turn to page two of his letter to his mother in Italy. Honest, so, ma'am, I'm here. I was up all the night to worry, now, because the shoes and a Pasquale is a no-giver food for the block of party. I'm going to have the heart to disappoint all the people who's going to come to the party. So, first, I think maybe I should use all of my money to buy the food. But it's not going to be enough. Three hamburgers. But more than anything, I'm like a shoelace in a Pasquale. I should have been friends again, and this party should have been a success. If only I'm going to have the money to buy food. I'm going to have so much money, troubles, and nobody to tell me to. Then I'm going to think. The bank. Sure.  So I'm going to go right now to the bank and tell her. Mr. Pasquale, I'm Mr. Hudson, manager of this bank. The teller informs me you're interested in obtaining a loan. Is that right? That's it, I do. You see, I've got a problem. Well, how much do you want? How much do you got? Mr. Pasquale, our bank has assets of over three million dollars. Oh, I'm going to want that much. Just how much are you thinking of borrowing? Well, now let me see. I wish you'd have at least two, three hundred pounds of a baloney and a salami. What? Three hundred pounds of a spaghetti. That's not the count of the meatballs. Also, fifty pies. Huckleberry, apple, and a strawberry. Yes, yes, Mr. Pasquale. Also, I think two hundred pickles will be enough. Mr. Hudson, how many slices do you get from a pickler? Well, I don't know. I think my wife gets four. Oh, she's a slicer big. I'm going to get eight slices. Yeah, two hundred pickles is more than enough. Now, how much do you think it's going to cost for bread to feed so many people? Well, what kind of bread are you getting? White, rye, or Pumpernickel? Any kind you got. We've got them all. Well, all right. I'll take them all. Well, that's a good... Mr. Pasquale, what's this loan for? It's for a party. You're borrowing money to make a party? This party's not for me.  All the street is going to be fifty years old. Shultz and Pasquale, you know them? Yes, they're depositors. Well, they was going to bring a food for a party, but they changed your mind. I'm going to want to disappoint the people, so I'm going to pay. Please, Mr. Hudson. Well, Mr. Basker, this is very irregular. Even if I wanted to grant you this loan, what collateral do you have? Huh? Security. What security can you give us to ensure the loan? Well, I'm just going to make the people happy. They should all get to know each other. Making people happy? What kind of security is that? Hudson, the biggest kind of security I know. Mr. Basker, our bank has been on Halstead Street for many years, and... Under what, Mr. Hudson? Well... My gosh, I think your black party is an excellent idea. I'll see to it that it goes on. Oh, Mr. Hudson, are you going to give me the money? You go ahead with your party plans and all the food will be there.  Please, maybe you come to the party, too? Well, I have an engagement Tuesday night, but I'll try to make it. Oh, Mr. Hudson, you're a fine man. And you make a wonderful automobile. Someday I'm going to buy one. The party isn't going to be. I love you. You like a papa to me. From ocean to ocean.  Luigi, you're a wonderful dancer, isn't he, Esther? Yeah, Luigi, how is it you should dance so good, I do, as Dan? Well, I'm going to take a deeper down underneath the feet. All the dancers are the same. How do I tell you, I see you dancing the Irish real. You dance even better than O'Reilly. The Irish real? To me, that's a Russian gazette. Give it up, bro. Hello, everybody. How are you? Oh, what a wonderful party. Mr. Basker, the food's delicious. Mr. Shilton, Mr. Pascuali really fixed things up nicely, didn't they? Yes, they fixed the things. Ms. Spaulding, I would like to ask you a question, please. Yes, what is it Mrs. Harroweth? My husband, he's a good boy in school. He behaves himself. Well... Believe me, Esther, it's her pleasure to stay after school with Ms. Spaulding. Why? Oh, I'm a Spaulding.  Well, I did see Mr. Pascuali. He's been standing there behind that lamppost. I can't understand it. Well, excuse me. I'm going to go over there and talk to him. Hey, hey, Pascuali. Why are you just standing there watching the people? I'm going to have to ride it to watch it.  Well, I'm just standing here watching the people. I'm a people shopper. Luigi, Luigi, you asked me to look for someone. Look what I found. Oh, stop dragging me by the ear. I am not a cook or Spaniard. Shul's a Pascuali. Who are you to no shaker hands and a big friend? Our Shul's is a hair. I'm a thought the wind is a shifting from the stock yard. That's all he can say. Old radio jokes. That's all. I'm a maker that up for my own head. What head? The only thing you got between your ears is a meatball. I'm ready for the Mr. Pascuali. No, please, please. Shul's a Pascuali. He's a blocker party.  Enjoy. Hey, I'm going to call Ralph and the Angelus and tell him to sing and we all start the bigger dance. Oh, there he is. Hey, Ralph. Yes. Hey, Ralph. Start your song now. Ladies and gentlemen, hold hands with whoever is standing next to you and we're going to dance all around the block. Oh, that's wonderful. Dance all around the block. Shul's a Pascuali. You stand next to each other and hold the hand. Oh, no. I'm not going to hold the hand through the hand. All right. I thought the whole of my hands. Come on. Patanus, come on. Shul's the whole of Pascuali's hand. That's the end. I'm not holding the hand. Oh, come on. I'm not holding the hand. No, for no. How you like the dancing? It was wonderful, Luigi. I found a friend. Right, Pascuali? That's all right, Shul. So it was just the two grown-ups acting like a little baby. Yeah, but we are not acting like babies no more. Pascuali, I apologize for starting the fight with you. It's not your fault, Shulza. I was the one who was the star. What are you talking about? I'm the one who was the star. It was the Shulza Pascuali. You're starting to fight again. You're right, Luigi. I'm feeling so good tonight. The better than ever I've ever felt. That's a fine of Pascuali. In fact, I'm feeling so good, I'm not even going to ask you to marry Rosa. Oh, thank you, Pascuali. I'm going to let Rosa ask you herself. Rosa! Now is the time to pop the question. Pop the question? Yeah, go ahead, pop it. Mr. Hudson, could you just come? Well, I got here in time to join that last dance, and I enjoyed it very much too. But I have to leave now, and before I go, I thought I'd give you these bills for the food. Ah, yes, yes, the bills. Pleasure, Mr. Hudson. I'll take up a word of you in a bank tomorrow. Well, I'd rather settle them now. Here, here they are. All right. Bill for $50 from under 50. Mr. Hudson, you bought all of the food from a Shulza Pascuali. Wait a minute, you got me all for shimmers. Mr. Hudson, you mean to say the food? I told you it's now being served to you? Yes. Him? And I've been telling everybody how terrible it was. I bought the food for Mr. Pascuali. Rather than let this block body fall through, he undertook to pay for everything himself. Well, don't, don't worry, Shulza. I'm going to pay you back. Every penny proper I'm going to make for my business is going to go to you until you get your $50. That long I ain't going to live.  You don't owe me nothing. I'm happy to give the food. And, uh, mmm, it was delicious. Oh, Shulza, Shulza.  When not the whole Steadest Street is 150 years old. Luigi, I think you're right.    Come on, Luigi, let's start a dance again. Come on, Luigi. Oh, Luigi, don't just stand there like that. Hey, Luigi. Hey, Luigi, use my handkerchief. That's the second handkerchief. And so, my mummy, today was the happiest day of my life. You should have seen all those people who was living on the same street for so long. And it's the first time that they stopped to say hello to each other. It's to give everybody a good feeling.  He's a get-to-like of me so much, he's gonna give me the first book of three. Now, all I'm gonna do is abide the other 19. My mummy, I can adjust to see how you would give your biggest smile to see all those different people dancing together. It was the people who first come from Ireland, Poland, France, Germany, Italy. And when I see them all together, it was like international hamburgers. And when it shoots in a Pasquale, they hold their hands and become friends. Everybody was so happy. My mummy, who wouldn't it be wonderful if all the nations, they have big parties and a whole of hands all around the world. Instead of making a bigger block of buses, they think how to make a bigger block of parties. Well, good night to Mama Mia. Tonight I'm asleep or good.  Be sure to listen next Tuesday night, the day after tomorrow over most of these stations, when Luigi Vasco writes another letter to his mama Vasco describing his adventures in America. Life with Luigi is a Cy Howard production and is written by Mac Benhoff and Lou Derman and directed by Mac Benhoff. J. Carol Nash is starred as Luigi Vasco with Alan Reed as Pasquale. Hans Conrad Schultz, Mary Schiff as Miss Balding and Jody Gilbert as Rosa. Music is under the direction of Lynn Murray. Bob Stevenson speaking. Life with Luigi will be back next Tuesday night and every Tuesday thereafter over most of these same CBS stations. And in this spot on Sundays, another of the great stars who have joined the CBS Parade, Red Skelton. Don't miss this first Red Skelton show on most of these same stations next Sunday night and laugh with Red on every Sunday thereafter. Eve Arden in our Miss Brooks, Jack Benny, Hamison Andy, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, followed by Red Skelton. There's a wonderful two and a half hours of laughter in the middle of Sunday evenings on this network, CBS This Call. And now stay tuned for Corleis Archer who follows immediately over most of these same stations. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.