It is my honor and my privilege to introduce to you Chris Lemma. His mom gave him a knife and she didn't even have to explain why she was giving him the knife, culturally he understood. If he got into a bind, if he was going to shame his family, he knew what to do.   And so hero Onada was dropped off in the Philippines in 1944. There was a group of them that were there fighting, but by December of 44, most of them had been killed. Three of them went and hid up in the hills of this particular island, and slowly one got injured, the other got sick, and it was just him. When the war was done, less than a year later, folks drove around in jeeps all over the Philippines with bullhorns announcing, you can come out of the hills, the war's over. He thought, that's a trick, so he didn't come out of the hills. Then they dropped pamphlets from planes, and it said, the war's done. They ended on this date, you can come out. And he looked at that flyer, he didn't like the font. He was like, no, that's a trick. A couple years later, they dropped flyers in Japanese, letting them know. You can come, you can come out. He'd already been in a few skirmishes, right, fights with the local police, fights with fishermen down at the wharf, and he'd even killed some folks. He knew he had to hide up in those hills and wait for his commander. He remembered his commander's words, you don't leave until we come get you.  And then a college kid flew out from Japan looking for a hero, that he was already a myth and legend back in Japan, looking for him, and he finds him, and he says, hey, the war's been over. And he says, not until my commander comes to pick me up. And so the college student flies back to Japan, gets a hold of the military. They find his former commander. The former commander was now a grandfather running a bookstore, but they put him on a plane and flew him out in March of 1974, 30 years he'd been on that island. And they went to find hero, and they told him, it's okay, you've been pardoned for whatever's gone on on the island, it's time to come home. This morning, I want to share with you 10 mantras, personal statements, things that I've learned over the last 25 years, that I hope will help you succeed. There are lots of different ways that will get you to the point where you call it success. I can't prescribe for you all those different ways, but I can tell you how you fail. I can tell you how you lose yourself in the midst of it, and I don't want that for you. I wish 25 years ago someone had sat down and given me here are the 10 things you need to know. I wish that it happened. These were the lessons that came after lots of time and lots of stories, and I want to share them with you this morning, and we'll start with the first one, right, which is just because you believe it, doesn't mean it's true. He genuinely thought he was still engaged in a war for 30 years, and he was wrong for 29 of them. He believed his wife, who is absolutely amazing, believed she was fired from a job, and it affected how she thought about herself and the world. But she was a school teacher, and a school teacher, at least in California, in April, everybody kind of gets told, we're not sure if you're coming back unless you have tenure. Everybody is, quote, let go. They're not actually let go. They're not enrolled, and then they offer some people the opportunity to come back. One year, just a few years into her career, my wife wasn't invited back. Can we all be clear? That's not the same as getting fired. They just didn't have enough students to bring her back, and she walked around going, I was fired. Any time someone told a story about a way they were horrifically fired, the shame they brought on themselves and their family, unless it would start to tell her story, and I'm like, no, not now. No, your story is not being fired. But in her world, that was what she told herself. I have some friends who are sitting right here in the front table who work at a company called Ninja Forms. The crazy thing is when they started, there was already a well-known form plug-in called Gravity Forms. Everybody knew who Gravity Forms was. In fact, there were people who would get on stage, myself included, who would say, if you're just going to buy one premium plug-in, all the rest of the plug-ins are free, but if you're going to buy just one premium plug-in, buy Gravity Forms. And James decided with a small group of folks, let's build a different form plug-in. Let's do it differently. I am so thankful that he didn't listen to the people who told him, there's no point in doing this. Can you imagine? We thought the market was saturated with one plug-in. That was a long time ago. We're like, well, form is already done. Go pick something else. And James was like, no, I think there's room for more. I'm not saying that everything you believe is wrong. I'm just saying you need to check yourself. And the beautiful thing James did with Kevin as co-founder is that they had a group of people around that they could check. Hey, am I crazy about this? Am I insane thinking that maybe there could be another plug-in? I have a group of friends in the WordPress community that I have on speed dial, that I have in text message, that I have in a Slack room, where I get to check myself, hey, is this crazy? Am I silly for thinking this?  If you don't have a friend who will tell you when you're being stupid, make one today. Just walk up to a stranger and go, hi there. My name's Chris.  There is no one who doesn't sign up for that. Everybody's like, oh, I love that.   But the reality is we need to be able to check ourselves because not everything we believe is true. Does that make sense? The next one was one of those dynamics that took a lot of time for me to figure out how to share or what to say to myself. But it started quite simply. I was in college, my last year of college, and I went to the ATM machine to get money out because I was going to have a group of friends over for a graduation dinner. I go to the ATM, stick in my card, punch in the code. Now I was in college, so I want to be clear. My graduation party was going to cost us like 80 bucks, right? And I had maybe like 85 in the bank. So I was like, okay. And I punched in my code, withdrawal, 25, or 80. And I got like $800 out. I'm like, what the heck is this? They were all $100 bills. In Atlanta, you may roll with such a bank that kicks out hundreds. In California, it's 20s. There was clearly a mistake. And I grabbed the money and I walked into the bank and I said, hey, there's a problem with your ATM machine. It just gave me hundreds. And the guy goes, wait, we didn't give you enough money? No, no, no. You gave me way more money than I will ever see in my life. Like, this is wrong, right? And so, do we have a new one? Where was I? $800 is more than I'd ever seen in my life? I think so, right? I'm like, no, no, this isn't my money. Right? And they're like, sir, you're holding the money. No, but your machine gave me this and it was a mistake. And they're like, wait, how much are we trying to get out? $80.   Realizing that banks don't have bounty hunters, right? I was young, I didn't know. So I gave the money back and when I told some friends they were like, wow, I never really thought of you as that kind of guy which isn't very nice to say to one of your friends. Right? But it was the beginning, the kernel of this truth, right? That my integrity mattered to me even when no one was looking. One year later, I was working at a government research lab, the beginning of my career and I was working at Berkeley National Lab. We were literally building the internet and I worked for a temp agency for the lab and I got a check. Now in those days, I mean I would have been lucky to get like $500 a week or something and this check was for like $4,000. And I went, oh, there's a mistake. So I went to my boss and I said, listen, I know how many staff are contracted to the lab and if you made this, if they made this kind of mistake times that many people, this could be like a quarter of a million, a half a million dollars. And he goes, wait, you got a check for more, I don't understand. I said, no, there could be a big problem and so then he said, well, go talk to the division director. I go to the division director, I'm like, hey, there's a problem. He's like, we didn't pay you enough? No, that's not what I'm talking about, right? I think there's a big problem in the system. They said, I wouldn't worry about it. Just cash a check and move on in life. I'm like, no, no. So I went off campus down to the office in downtown Berkeley and I sat in a room on the chairs waiting to see someone and the first person comes out and says, okay, what's the problem? I said, well, it's my check. We didn't pay you enough? No, you paid me too much and here's what's going on and I think this problem could be big and they're like, I don't understand. You got more than you were expecting and you're, what are you doing here? No, because there's a problem with your, I'm worried about you, right? They're like, hold on. And we went through that for three people, right? I was there for like six hours trying to give them money back. But within a few weeks, that story got around the lab to the point where someone in my department who worked in my building walked up to me and it's like, did you hear about the kid who was, I'm like, that's me. It was easier the second time than the first and it's been easier every year after that because the story I tell myself, the one I do believe, is that even when no one's looking, my character matters. The story I tell myself is that if people are choosing between me and some other candidate for a job that my character is going to matter more than my competence and here's why I know that's true. Because when I was starting my career, Facebook didn't exist. When I was starting to do work on the web, browsers barely existed. We had to get a new beta version every three months. Everything about what's gone on in the tech space, even in the WordPress space, everything changes all the time. There is no way you're going to be an expert in everything. You will not reach the holy grail of having your competence known throughout the world as being an expert in all the things. That's never going to happen. But if you have to choose between developing your competence and your character, I want to tell you that character is more important and I want to tell you that it gets easier over time. That's a story you tell yourself that you can hold on to. Does that make sense? Now, in the midst of talking about things we tell ourselves, most of the time the things I tell myself are negative. I don't know about you, right? But if I come off this stage later today and I have 10 people, 15 people walk up going, that was great, that was great, and one person walks up and goes, you didn't mention this. That's it. The rest of the day, I'm just sitting on that negative critic, right? Does that make sense? Do you do that too? Right? We remember the negative far more than the positive and the negative, the worst negative, is our own inner critic that tells us you can't do that. I wrote a plug-in when I was first getting involved in the WordPress community a long time ago.  I mean, I'm no Norcross, right? He's somewhere here. My code, his code, like I wrote one plug-in and by that point he'd written like 35, right? And I just thought, oh, this... And then I got a letter from a patent troll that said your plug-in is in jeopardy of one of our patents. And inside my head, I thought, see? I told you this sucked. You don't know what you're doing. Now, thankfully, it was a patent troll and not a real deal, and so I just closed down the plug-in, moved on in life, and tried the next thing. I created an online course, a video course on memberships. I know a little something about memberships in the WordPress space. So I created a course and then I thought, no one's gonna buy this. It turned out I was mostly right. Most of people didn't buy it from my site. But some dude halfway across the world had made a copy of everything and he was selling it on his site and he was making a lot of money because he was selling it for $39 when I was selling it for $199. And I thought, see? You don't know what you're doing. You should just stop. In fact, I got involved in WordPress 2005. The series of years from then to now has always had the you don't really know what you're doing. Maybe the biggest crazy mistake I made in life, which turned out to not be a mistake at all, was I thought, hey, maybe we could create another version of Managed WordPress that does something different.  And you're like, yeah. But I think there's space to do some new things and we've had a lot of fun over the last two and a half years. There's always gonna be an inner critic.  And what you need to develop, right, is a completely different approach to navigating your inner critic. There's an entire field of psychology, called sports psychology, that focuses on athletes and what they do to prepare. And when I was an athlete in high school, and it's hard to believe that this was an athlete at some point in life, but I was. I had a coach who started talking about some of this stuff, right? In 1977, they looked at 16 men who were trying for the Olympics, trying to join the US Olympic team in gymnastics. In 1977, they released the report that said they analyzed what they told themselves. What do you say to yourself? There were some who said nothing, some who said don't blow it. There was a handful that were doing the thing that was popular in those days, vision jumping over the bar or vision grabbing onto the rings or vision whatever you do when you're in gymnastics. But there was the fourth group who simply said, you've been here before, you can do this. Just positive encouragement, self-confidence that maybe they didn't have completely, but it turns out the 1977 study has been mirrored over and over and over. If you're a marathon runner, if you bicycle on a tour to France, the notion that you could say, you've been here before, I can do this. I've been here before, I'm going to make it.   In 1977, they looked at those 16 male athletes. It turns out the group that was positive, self-confident, telling themselves these mantras over and over, they all made the team. The others didn't. This morning I want you to know this. I think you're awesome. I think you're fantastic. I think you're incredible. You know how I know?  There's only two options, you're amazing or you're insane. If you've spent any time in the WordPress community, you likely have seen on Twitter somewhere, or Facebook, or on a news website, the notion of WP drama. Here's what I bet you have never done. I bet you've never gone to Google, opened up your browser, gone to Google, and typed into the search, give me a good rant today. Most of us, when we get on social, we get on social driven by the fact that we had a bad experience at a hotel, a bad experience at a restaurant, a bad experience with a plug-in, a bad experience with a host, and then we want to go somewhere and we want to tell the world about it. But none of us ever go to the same sites, go to Google, go to social, trying to read that. None of us search for the rant. That's not how we work. So you may have an opinion. My recommendation is, choose wisely if you're going to share it. I have some very good friends who work at a hosting company called WP Engine. They're one of the premier players in the WordPress space. They were one of the early players to define managed WordPress. And I was one of their customers. And I remember when my site started getting 502 errors, and I called up my friends who work there, and I said, what's going on? And they said, what are you talking about? And I'm like, how can you be a host and not know that I'm getting 502 errors? And then I had five, six, eight sites with them, and every time they did an update, I didn't get one email telling me, here are the six sites where the eight sites were updated. I got eight emails, one per, and I'm like, what kind of moron doesn't know to send one email instead of eight? You're spamming my inbox. Then I joined Liquid Web and started building a new platform called Managed WordPress, and guess what? Oh, yeah. You get a call from a customer going, how do you not know that I'm getting 502s? What are you talking about? We update plugins on their site and we send out. I have many sites on my Managed WordPress platform at Liquid Web, and I have 30 sites, so every night I get 30 emails telling me what's happened. And I'm like, the gods! Thank God I didn't write a long post about 502 errors and multiple emails, because that would be comical today. Don't presume that the person on the other end of whatever you're upset about did it intentionally to hurt you. Don't presume that there's a secret cabal making decisions about Kentucky Fried Chicken recipes and WordPress Foundation and core. It doesn't exist. And more importantly, your rant about it isn't helpful because there's always that person who's brand new to the game. You were once new to the game, too. Imagine if you had only read something new about Gutenberg that said this thing is horrible and the demise of the Republic, and you're like, I should just walk away from WordPress now. Because you read someone's rant because you didn't have context for the rest of it? I wrote two blog posts about Gutenberg over the course of two years. One that said I don't fully understand what's happening, and the second which was, oh, I think I understand what's happening, I would just shape it a little differently. That was it, too. Did I have 400 thoughts about Gutenberg over the course of the time that it was working? Absolutely. I bet you did, too. And I bet you have those feelings about Jetpack and you have those feelings about everything else. They were in the early, early days, right? There were things Jetpack did that I really didn't love. And then the other day I started working on a partnership with Jetpack, and one of my friends calls me, one of those friends who's like, the one that will tell you if you're being stupid, and he goes, hey, I see you're going to partner with Jetpack. Can you tell me what's going on? And I go, yeah, and I explain it all. Can you imagine if I'd written the post that said, never touch Jetpack, don't install Gutenberg? Whatever it is. There are moments when we can have that rant, there are moments when we can have those feelings, be frustrated, whatever. But you don't want to write that post. You don't want to share that opinion that way because it'll come home to roost. And more important than that, it may derail someone else. You can have all the opinions you want. My advice to you is, you don't have to share them all. Does that make sense? The first time I was offered a job at Disney, we were living in Northern California. I love Disneyland. My wife loves Disneyland. And I was giving a job offer for a senior director at Disney. And I'm like, this is amazing. And my wife said, do we get free passes? She said no, but with what they're offering to pay me, we can buy all the passes we want. This is amazing.  I'm like, yeah, we're going to have to go down there. We're going to live down in Burbank or whatever. And nobody chooses to live in Burbank. Right? And she's like, I don't want to move.  She's like, well, if we have to, I'm like, no. We won't go. We're going to Disney. And I said, okay, we won't. Right? Not a big deal. Got an offer a couple of years later from WP Engine. They were just growing, getting started. They needed me to move to Austin. I started looking up housing in Austin. I was like, this is awesome. We're going to go out. We're sitting at dinner. I can remember today the public restaurant and it wasn't strategic. We just happened to be at dinner. They're looking for this role. They're excited to have me come on board. But we'd have to move to Austin.  And I was like, whoa. And she's like, by this point, we were living in San Diego. She's like, we have the best life we've ever had. We have all the friends in the world we want. We're connected to the church. Everything is going right. And you want to pull us up and move to Texas. I'm like, well, when you put it like that. So we said, no. Pulled out of the whole process and said, no, thanks. It was easier the second time. The third time right before I joined Liquid Web started talking to Facebook. And Facebook was like, we're very excited to have you potentially do this. And I said, great. Where is it? Oh, well, you can either live in San Francisco or London. Wow. Those are two cheap cities. Right? And Melissa was like, no, I don't want to move. And so I said, no. A lot easier the third time. My entire career has not been optimized for my entire career.  The number of jobs I've passed, the number of companies I've said no to, the things that I could have done, I could have been a contender instead of the most happily married man on the planet. I chose what I believe to be the better choice.  We have a strategy for how we build friendships in our family. Right? Because if you meet my wife first and you think she's amazing and then you meet me, like we do a dinner together, couples, right? 50% of the people never eat with us again. OK? But if you know me through WordPress and we're OK, we're having fun and then I introduce you to my wife, 100% of the people will come back. In fact, some of them will volunteer the hey, if you guys get a divorce, I'm going with her. Right? She is the most incredible person in the world. Here's what I know. When you're dead and if you have a tombstone, there'll be a start date, there'll be an end date and there'll be a dash. I don't know what your dash will look like. But there's no titles on your tombstone. There's no, I got to be the SVP of So-and-So. I got to be the CEO of So-and-So. There are no titles there. If you're lucky, there'll be a tombstone right next to you. All I want is one arrow that says I'm with her and hers to say I'm with him. I love my wife. If my wife said today, I need you to leave Liquid Web, I'd leave Liquid Web without even sending Joe a note. Just walk out the door and just keep walking. That's how much I love my wife. I love my kids and I love my friends and fundamentally, right, you're going to have to make a choice is optimizing your career the most important thing and I will tell you right now, I don't think it is. I've been in a career for 25 years and I will tell you, there have been some highs, there have been some lows, there have been some amazing fun times. But I've never regretted making the choices I made to value my relationships more than my titles. Does that make sense? What makes it easier is this truth, which is you want to make the work the reward. Now it was a lot of work to get pictures of me that don't have me holding a cigar. I just want you to recognize that, right? All of these people are WordPress people, every single one of them. When I got involved in the community, which was about 2011, I knew exactly zero people in the WordPress space. Today 90% of my closest friends come from the WordPress community. Frankly, if the software falls off the edge of the planet and we don't ever talk about WordPress again, these are still my closest friends. When you make the work the reward itself, you stop worrying about the objective, you stop worrying about what hill you're trying to climb and instead, you enjoy the journey. Right? Now, here's my favorite picture. If you take a look, it says make the work the reward. That's me and Matt Molenweg smoking cigars. You know what makes that interesting? He hadn't smoked cigars for 10 years. Right? I got to bring the thing I love most, right? My hobby, and I was like, hey, Matt, can I take you to my cigar lounge in Manhattan, my favorite place? Can I take you there and can I pick your cigar? And he's like, sure, let's do it, and we smoke cigar. And I'm like, this is amazing. And he said, I forgot to take a picture. And then he was like, do you think we can get a picture? And I'm like, oh, sure. And so we asked the person to come take a shot. I didn't care if I had the picture. I'm hanging out with a guy who co-founded WordPress and he's smoking the cigar that I selected. Game over. I win. Right? You make the work the reward. And I promise you, it will be rewarding. How many of you have ever played Jenga? How some of you have no lives. How have you existed without playing Jenga? If you don't know, for the uninitiated, Jenga is a game where you build up a whole bunch of blocks, build a tower, and then you play this game where each person has to take one block out. And you wait to see if the tower falls over. For those of you that have played Jenga, how many times when the Jenga thing falls over, when the tower is down, how many of you have been completely bewildered and shocked that this happened to the Jenga tower? This is what happens when you play Jenga. See, it's going to fall. There's going to be a moment where you grab something you thought was going to work and it doesn't work. It just completely crashes. And if it does, and you're playing with someone where they go, no! I failed! Never talk to that person again. Right? I mean, that's a ridiculous response to the game agenda. You know it's going to fall over. You know it's going to happen to someone. You know that someone is limited to the number of people playing around the table. This is a guarantee. And yet most of us, when we play, we stack it up again and do it again. I could talk to you all day about focus. I could talk to you all day about dedication. I could talk to you all day about making good choices, discernment, and everything else. But I will tell you, the single thing that has helped me most in my WordPress career is persistence. I wrote a blog at crystalma.com. I wrote a blog post seven days a week, every day for three years. Every single day trying to write to live up to Tom's introduction. How can I be engaging and be helpful and educate all at the same time? Every day. You get up, you do it. You go, hmm, that's okay. That's okay. The next day you do it again. And the next day you do it again. And you keep doing it. And I had friends in SEO who were saying, you know that your two posts about membership plugins are crashing and Google's not taking credit. I'm like, I don't write for Google. They're like, yeah, but you didn't get the green light on the... You didn't get the green light on that article because you didn't write enough words. I don't care about Yoast. I love him. He's awesome. He's a friend of mine. But I don't care about his software, because that's not what I was writing for. I was writing for people. And they'll say, oh, well, you didn't do this right.  You didn't put punctuation. I was like, thank you. You got it for free. If you're new to WordPress and you have comments on your website, I want to give you this one little hint. There is a button next to every comment, and it lets you delete the comment. And you don't need to pay extra for that. In my house, if you walk in, all the food that's available in my house is available to you. You can walk straight into my refrigerator. Even if it's the first time you've come into my house, you can open the doors, you can grab anything you want. There is nothing protected in my house. Any of the musical instruments, any of the music speakers, anything that I have is available to you. If you're in my house, you can do whatever you want. And there are really no boundaries. You are welcome in my house as my guest.   And eventually you just delete the comments, and you're like, no, thank you.  When you're playing Jenga and the tower falls over, you don't say, that's it, I'm never playing this game again. You just rebuild the tower and play it again. When I have an idea at work, and I think this is the most brilliant idea I've ever had, and then I say it to someone and they're like, I don't think so. I fail. Let's just figure out another way to try it. Some of you still have key rings with keys. I remember when I had a whole bunch of keys, and if I took the wrong key and put it in the door, and it didn't open the door, I didn't stop and go, I fail. I just tried the next key. Persistence will get you so much more than anything else. I run a conference. You can tell from the photo that it's super intense. I run a conference in Carlos San Lucas at a resort where there's no lectures, there's just a dialogue, there's discussion, and the discussions happen in the pool. But after years of coaching individual companies, I thought, there has to be a way to do this more in mass, bring more people together and share more insight. It's a business conference. We don't talk about WordPress, we don't talk about the technical stuff, it's just business, pricing, hiring, all that kind of stuff. And I picked my favorite place in the world and I invited friends to it, and we run that conference. The most beautiful thing about the conference is every single time we've run it, I think it's six years now, when people leave, they almost never say, oh, that host that led that discussion was amazing. What they say is the person who was sitting next to me in the pool, they made that comment and then I followed up with them and we started talking and I got so much from that conversation. Every participant has their own story. Now I spent about six weeks curating who's coming to the event, but every person who shows up has their own story, has their own lessons, has learned something valuable. And you're just like them. I think sometimes we look forward and we see people that are no more than us, that have figured out more than us, that are more experts than us, and we forget to look back behind us. Because there's a whole mob of people behind us that have barely started and know a lot less than us. Getting help from other people, raising your hand and asking for help got you to where you are today. Don't forget it, and remember there are people behind you that you can help. Does that make sense? In my world, I generally look at what I'm doing in this paradigm that says, I believe every one of you has a piece to the puzzle that we're building.   And the way in which I see my life, my mission, my purpose is to help you play your piece. My wife loves puzzles. When we go on a cruise, we play with puzzles. She gets the box, she lays it out. The worst thing that ever happens to her is when you get the puzzle pretty much all done, except there's one missing piece. And then she's so mad, she talks about it the whole rest of the cruise. It happened recently at our house, she bought a puzzle, she did it with my son, and at the end there were two pieces missing, and I'm like, just buy the puzzle again, find the two pieces. She goes, do you know how hard that will be? Do you know how hard it is to listen to you talk about a puzzle? But here's what I know, right? If you have a purpose, if you're clear on that purpose, if you know what you're going after, it will develop a platform of people that are interested in what you're doing and they will listen to you. But if you have a platform, whether you're famous on Twitter or Facebook or Pinterest or YouTube or whatever, that doesn't automatically give you a purpose. So choose wisely and invest.  The Concord is a plane that used to take what was a 17-hour journey down to 7 hours. Absolutely incredible. But because it moved at Mach 2 speeds, the fuel distribution that had to move from the plane to the back of plane at certain timings to get it to elevate, it would change its weight and it could still maneuver was super complicated. So there were two computers in the front dash. Even though they were pilots, the other computers did a majority of the work. The pilots would do the work to get it taken off, but all the rest of that, moving fuel back and forth, figuring out the elevation, everything was done by two computers. And the two computers, the first one did all the work and the second computer was there as the backup. But every now and then, or in fact, 200 times on the plane, the plane would veer off course a little bit. The flight was so long, right, to get from, say, JFK to London, was so long that they didn't have memory that we have today. So they'd have these little memory sticks put in memory at different points, because what would happen as the plane was flying is they would get to a certain way point at a certain time and they would calculate where you're supposed to be and where are you. And they would notice the plane was off a little bit and they would send back data to the plane saying make the course correction. The second computer would tell the first computer, you have to adjust. And that would happen over and over. And they'd get a little further in the plane, they'd swap out the memory, and it would do it again. And it would do it again. And the back could sometimes hear the computer saying out loud, right, hey, course correction is needed, course correction adjustment needed, course correction adjustment needed. And the passengers are like, this is crazy, that happened the whole flight, this is insane. The Concord from New York to London never was late more than three minutes. It is incredible what tiny little changes and course corrections can do to get you where you want to go. But you need to know that it's fine to make those course corrections. I use this as my mantra for lots of little statements, things like, hey, seek to be understood, listen to understand rather than listening to reply. All the platitudes you see on Twitter, I just bunch them all up into, hey, if you make lots of small tweaks and corrections, it's amazing what results you can have. IBM did a study 25 years ago now that was looking at the efficacy of delegating, giving someone else the job. And they came back, IBM Global Services at the time was massive, it was a huge company of consultants, and they said, tell us when is it right to delegate? And the consultant company came back and said, we're gonna give you the answer a little different than you thought, we're gonna give it to you in a multiple. And you go, what's the multiple? You go, well, think about how long it would take if you pass it on to someone else, how long would it take them? And there's a point where you stop delegating. Most of us, if you asked us, at what point do you stop delegating, we'd be like, well, two times, maybe three times. If it takes me one day and it takes them three days, I'm like, just give it back to me, I'll take care of it myself. Do you know what the answer was? The multiple? 10. 10. Someone would take 10 times as long, and that was still a good time to delegate. And you go, that's crazy. Except it turns out it never stays at 10. The first time you give it to them, it takes 10, the next time seven, the next time three, and maybe the next time half. They just may be better at it than you. I read that study 25 years ago, and I was like, sweet, I'm gonna delegate everything, and I have. I've tried to delegate as much as I can, as often as I can. Even when inside, I'm like, oh, I could do it better. Because you know what happens? We forget how long it took us to learn something. I started working with WordPress in 2005. The UI of 2005 looked really different than it does today. But every year, from 2005 to now, when we've made adjustments, those adjustments to me have been tiny increments. And I've just gone, oh, okay, and I've rolled with it. But someone today who starts with WordPress from the beginning is like, ah, I don't know what to do. Now we're working on that, and there's lots of tools that help with that and training and all that. But the point is, we forget.  Then my wife logs in and she's like, I don't know what to do here. Remember that there are people at the beginning of their journey. And you can come alongside and help them.  My name is Chris Lama. I'm the VP of products over at Liquid Web. You can find me at Twitter at at Chris Lama. Thank you and have a great conference.


Someone said to me the other day, when I try to set a boundary, people tell me it sounds more like an ultimatum to them and more of a threat than a boundary. But the difference between an ultimatum and a boundary is intent. An ultimatum's intent is to control and dominate and gain power over someone with the ultimatum. A boundary is about safety and relationship protection and preservation.  The difference is in the intent and if your intent is to look after yourself and preserve relationships, not destroy them, preserve them, keep them intact, that's what boundaries do. Then don't be justifying over explaining or apologizing because you know the difference between the intent to dominate and control and the intent to protect and preserve relationships that you value.


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A project that began after working with the Grand Rapids Police Reserves has turned into one woman's calling since 1997. For this week's in focus, Haiti Clowder shows us how a local artist pays respect to members of law enforcement who die in the line of duty every year. Mary Corwin is an artist who at times is working on several projects. She calls one in particular her labor of love and passion. Corwin creates ornaments to honor police officers and canines who were lost in the line of duty across the United States. I didn't want the officers like hanging donuts on the tree or something so we came up with the idea to make ornaments honoring them. So that's what we've been doing it every year since then. It started 20 years ago and Corwin is notified when an officer or canine dies. She gets information like their name and department from a memorial page. Corwin takes each loss personal. So far this year we've lost 100 officers and I think 17 canines. They say that slightly down from last year by a couple percentages but everyone lost is one too many. Mary does about 150 ornaments each year that's almost 3000 total since she first began. There's not a year that goes by that I don't rig down at some point but they're my family the the boys here at the Grand Rapids Police Department they know I'm their mom. Corwin has used different shapes in the past. This year's ornament has a blue line that is a symbol of law enforcement's commitment to protect others. They're painted but I do the lettering and this one of our sergeants families help me tie the ribbons on. Bill Litchke spent about 25 years with the Grand Rapids Police Department. His contribution to the project is cutting out the ornaments. He says the cards and letters from the families giving thanks are priceless. It's an awful shame that we have to lose these officers but it's nice to know that they're people that appreciated the job they did and that we care about the families of those officers. Every year the ornaments are sent to the officer or canines department along with a letter from the Grand Rapids Police Chief and a request that the ornament be passed along to the family. We have a saying in law enforcement the saying is we shall never forget and this is just our way of remembering those that have made the ultimate sacrifice. Some of the losses hit close to home since 1997 Corwin has made seven ornaments for officers from the Grand Rapids Police Department. During the holidays a tree with all of the ornaments is on display. In Grand Rapids, Hady Clodder, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


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Personal notice. Danger's my stock and trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you got a job for me, George Valentine. Write full details. Greetings, Mr. Lover. Time for another Let George Do It adventure. This one is called Triple Indemnity, and I'd better explain that one right now. You all know what double indemnity is. It's when the beneficiary is paid off double when the insured suffers an accidental demise. Well, our hero thought he'd go them one better with an even bigger policy. It gave him full protection from everything, except murder. Dear Mr. Valentine, I am enclosing $50. It's all that I can afford, but I am the only person who seems to care about stopping this horrible flood of gossip. Gossip that may actually kill a man. I know you've heard of the Martin Brill case you must have, even there in the city. Now please understand, I've never even met Mr. Brill, but I know that he's not guilty, and I know that you can prove that he's not. I have absolutely nothing to go on, but neither has anyone else in this town. Just because he's a newcomer, because he can afford to travel and prefers to stay off by himself, are those reasons why the entire world should be getting ready to hang Martin Brill for murder? So please, Mr. Valentine, come as quickly as you can. If you will be in the lobby of the Hotel Colonial by 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, please sit in the big faded couch next to the fireplace, and I will meet you there. Huh? And that's all. Oh, it's an A in the signature. None. She must have been so upsetter in such a hurry that... But she's not trying to hide her identity, George. I mean, she says she'll meet us tomorrow morning in the letters postmarked. It's you. It's the same as her date line. That's a stuffy little place. Look, see, I don't remember hearing about a Martin Brill case down there to you. No, but obviously there wouldn't be any danger of these being hanged unless there's already been a murder. Yeah. Yeah, and I agree with a good lady that gossip can do a lot of bad things. You are listening to Let George Do It. Our adventure will continue in just a moment. Now back to Let George Do It and George Valentine. We are, George, the big faded couch by the fireplace that's almost 10 o'clock. Get the local newspaper, Angel. The woman at the desk gave me hers. Everybody in this town sure has an opinion, all right. The guy killed his wife. Simple as that. Listen, it is now three days since the strange disappearance of Mrs. Britt. George, she was drowned. No, no. They went swimming together off their place down Shore Road, and she got a cramp and dron. He claimed he tried to rescue her, and I don't see what's... Oh, well, maybe it is kind of an unusual time of year for swimming. Time of day, too. It wasn't day. It was night. Yeah, a guy in the barbershop said he saw Mrs. Brill once a couple of years ago when they first moved here. Sort of a drab, mousy brunette. Not exactly the, I want to go swimming in so beautiful in the moonlight type. That's where Riley is dragging the bay. There were no witnesses. Caretaker named Nicholson, but he didn't see it. Brill's were away traveling most of the time. They just got back. He's a writer of sorts. And the chambermaid's full of gossip, too. Mr. Brill's behind in his rent.  Yeah, life insurance. Lots of nails in the coffin, aren't they? Double indemnity. Does it say that, too? What? Oh, excuse me. Well, I happen to know what you're talking about. Who doesn't? He had her insured double, double indemnity. Oh, yes, 50,000 in case of an accident. Like drowning. Oh, it must say something about it. Hey, you want the paper, Frank? Go ahead. Take it. Yes, of course. Of course I want it. Makes good reading, doesn't it?  Sympathized with a husband? But a rope around his neck. Oh, stop it, all of you. Be quiet. Well, we're running a forum. I think it's simply horrible, all this talk. The man's wife died, that's all. It's tragic. It's none of your business. Did you know her, lady? Nobody in town really did, or him, either. But I think this is... Thanks for the newspaper, mister. I guess he didn't care for your opinion, lady. That man was Martin Brill. Well, no wonder he overdid it. He must be a little bitter about all the gossip. But you'd defend him, wouldn't you? Me? What do you mean? You wrote us this letter. Here. This is your writing, isn't it? No, that's not me. And I assure you, I can tell my own handwriting. And I certainly don't need your help, Mr. Valentine. Nor anyone's. I'm an insurance investigator. Fran Jeffers. Oh, insurance investigator? That's it.  Has your office already made up its mind? It's not going to pay off on that policy of his wife's? Not at all. You know better than that. In fact, we hate all this chatter as much as Mr. Brill does. Between you and me, Mr. Valentine, the company is starting a big sales drive. An investigation possible withholding of payment isn't exactly desirable. But you are. What? Well, your office thinks you are. They send out a lady detective who can maybe get next to Mr. Brill and maybe help prove he committed murder. And there wouldn't be a payment at all. Oh, you're too suspicious, Mr. Valentine. A life insurance company, doesn't you think? I'm not talking about your company. They're probably okay. I'm talking about you. You're here. And you listen to the gossip. Well, if you care to know what I found out. Oh, thanks, sister. I've heard enough gossip. From now on, I listen to nothing but facts. Okay, Sergeant. Okay. Fran Jeffers. Yeah, she's all right, Valentine. Very smart gal. Good reputation in her line. I hope she wears on a line, but that's not the point. Now, I waited in that hotel lobby till 11. The person who wrote me that letter never showed up. Why? How should I know why anything? Maybe the letter writer was afraid of public opinion. Or maybe the person couldn't show up. Disappeared. Maybe it's not healthy to be on the side of Martin Brill. So now you are, huh? Is that what you mean? Maybe. Or at least until I can find my missing correspondent. Or until you get busy and find the body of Mrs. Brill. Until I... Listen, Valentine. For three days, I tell people, cool off. There ain't nothing but circumstances against this guy. And with the other hand, I shut up the Coast Guard when they say you can't find a body in this bay. Too heavy-tied. And what's that crew doing out in the bar? I scrape my knees to the marrow and steal a net from a salvage company. Yeah, that's what they're doing. And they'll find her all right, don't worry. Martin Brill. Everybody hates him. Nobody knows him. When he reported her death as an accident, he acted like it was murder. But when an investigation starts, he just clams up. He won't defend himself. He won't stop the gossip. Dumb? Uh-uh. No. Nobody's that dumb. Of course I appreciate your interest, Mr. Valentine. I'm only volunteering my help, Mr. Brill. It seems to me... Oh, I suppose it's inevitable.  Come out to watch the great dredging operation. Did you love your wife? Huh? Well, of course. No. Not particularly. Oh, I did when we were married. But she didn't enjoy people the way I do. Always wanted to be by herself, stay out of sight. Oh, I liked her though. We might have made a go of it. Great ability to say the wrong thing, haven't you? Why? Perhaps I'm just honest. I haven't been officially accused of anything, you know. Just going for an ill-timed swim and then being unable to save my wife's life. Why did you go for a swim at night, this time of year? Because we were both bored. We'd been having a fight. We wanted something to do to forget it. Oh, brother, open your mouth, put your foot. Yes, yes, I'm guilty, didn't you know? Well, stick around, Valentine. I don't want your help. But maybe some of the vultures will when they find there's nothing wrong with their body. Hello, fellow. Oh, hello there. Your name's Nicholson, isn't it? That's right. Curetaker. Yeah, the only witness. Yeah, I didn't see anything. Why not? I was down in my own room. Hadn't been to the Mr. and Mrs. for several hours. And along ten o'clock or so, I heard Mr. Brill give a yell for me, running up from the beach, stopping wet. And I took out a boat, called the Coast Guard, but you know the rest. Nobody else awake in these houses along here? All empty this time of year. It's the only place open on the whole shore road. Sure, open now, ain't it? Look at them fools. Curious, agonist. All convinced of just one thing. But you're not, huh? I ain't saying nothing. Mr. Brill's rude to people, and he's a writing man, but you can't hold that against him. Sure, I've even heard him say he hated her, but then you know what, he could be just talking. Hey, stay away from there, I'll get that phone. Hello? Yeah? Is anybody named Jeffers here, or Fran Jeffers? Oh, it's a lady, Mr. Nicholson. I think she's down at the hotel. No, here I am. Hmm. Well, wouldn't you know. Hey, they got her! And that's coming and down at the pier! Come on! What is it, Riley? What happened? Oh, it's all over. That's what's happened. We brought in the net we're all through, Valentine. It was empty. We didn't find it. Well, the Coast Guard warned you of tides or something. They'll never find it, Mr. Valentine. Not in the bay. All right, lady, you're so smart. It's been quite a display of public curiosity, hasn't it? And you couldn't help falling forward yourself? Oh, no, I didn't. Or at least being sympathetic, because everyone was pointing at Martin Brill. But the gossip played right into his hands, don't you see? I don't. See, what did you mean they'll never find her in the bay? The telephone call was from a relief man at a service station. He spent all day locating him. He was on duty the other night at a station down on the highway, where a sure road comes in. And I suppose he saw the drowning. He saw a man kissing a woman goodbye, and the woman running across the highway to a bus stop, trying not to be seen. What? Okay, lady, I'm a sucker. We're all suckers. It was Mrs. Brill, huh? Alive and cheeky. Alive and hiding somewhere. Just an insurance swindle. Double indemnity for 50,000 bucks. Simple. Yeah. Too simple. Martin Brill isn't that dumb. You are listening to Let George Do It. Our adventure will continue in just a moment. To George Valentine. Yes, you go to Bayview, but when you arrive in the gossipy little town, you can't even find the person who wrote you the letter. And it's for Martin Brill. He scarcely needs a defender. The police have been unable to locate the body of Mrs. Brill in the bay and probably never will. Still, if your name is George Valentine, you could scarcely agree with a lady insurance investigator who says it's all so simple. Who says Mr. and Mrs. Brill are merely trying to falsely collect on a double indemnity. Well, you see, I don't work at this service station regularly. I got my own place in Bayview. Look, never mind, kid. The point is you were on duty here the night of the supposed drowning. Check. Sure, that's what I told Miss Jeffers here on the phone. Tell Mr. Valentine the rest of it. Well, it isn't much, but along about ten, I happened to notice this couple walking down from the shore road. I had a fight with my girl, and maybe that's why I noticed him. He was kissing it. The woman, Mr. Valentine, not the boy's girl. Yeah, yeah, only what then? What did the man do? He just turned around, went back up the road. The woman, she pulled up the collar of her coat and tried to stay in the shadows over there, but I saw her when she ran across the highway to the bus stop. Then the bus came along, and that's it. Mrs. Brill. It couldn't have been anybody else. Nicholson insists there was nobody else out here that time. Okay, thanks, kid. I'll mention it. But the matter, Mr. Valentine, isn't the whole case good enough? I guess it is good enough, lady, so far. But how much farther can it go? We'll certainly never get Mr. Brill to admit that his drowning story was a phony, but his wife is really hiding out somewhere. Sure, sure, sure. For you, it's closed, all right. Sick the police on finding it, refused to make payment on insurance. But what else can we do? Even before this, we might have refused to pay for seven years because there was nobody. Just on the basis of the gossip, when your company's in the middle of a drive, oh no, you wouldn't have. Gossip works both ways, but now. Well... Yeah, I'm just stubborn, all right. I still want to find the person who wrote me a letter who maybe knows more than we do. And I've already had the woman at the hotel at my bill up. So... Sure. So goodbye. Hotel, colonial, ten o'clock. Sit on faded couch. Oh, George, for heaven's sake, forget that letter. It's all over. All right, all right, Booksy. What's that you got? Statement from the hotel down, baby. Save it for your income tax. All neatly written out. See, George? Yeah. Yeah? Valentine? Wiley, any luck finding the Brill woman yet? What? No, no, no. Of course not. It'll take us weeks. Probably turn up in China someplace. Well then. But I got you another letter, or a piece of one. It says, dear Mr. Valentine, it's been bothering me ever since you talked to me in the server station. Hey, wait a minute. Who's this from? That kid in the server station, remember? I found this in the wastebasket here. It says, about that woman, I thought I'd better tell you. And that's all he says. Wiley, what in the name of... Maybe that's all he could say, because he got interrupted. The kid's dead, Valentine. He's been murdered. Shot in the back, huh? Yeah, yeah, poor kid. Just a witness who saw that Brill woman sneaking off. Well, at least he'd already told his story. He was the only witness, Wiley. And he had something more to tell me about it. It had to be a robbery. I already checked where Martin Brill was tonight, and he's gonna now let me know. You know, I think I'll go study a big faded couch. Funny thing to mention, isn't it? I should have caught it when I got my first letter. A person would either have to live in a hotel, or work there to think of it as a faded couch. You sure you don't need to lie down on one Valentine? Oh, Wiley, I feel fine. I'm gonna have a talk with a person I should have been bright enough to meet on page one. The bashful lady who wrote me the letter. Here, here, take a look at it. The handwriting. And here's my bill from the hotel, see? Exactly the same. Same hair. Huh.  The lady behind the desk. Mr. Valentine, I did write you a letter once, of course, but... You don't have to tell him anything, Lydia. Well, you caretaker here, too, Nicholson? I just came from a service station where a boy was murdered. Huh? Yeah, you heard me, both of you. So let's have it, Lydia, the whole story in fast. Oh, no. No, not that same boy, not the boy who saw me.  Did you say, saw me? Yes. Yes, on the road that night, crossing the highway. Will you let me tell this idiot? You'll get your turn, Buster. Lydia, huh? Your last name isn't Brill by any chance, is it? Oh, no. No, no, it's just Lydia.   That was a long time ago. But yes, it was me on the highway. Yeah, yeah. All right, get back to the beginning, the letter. You didn't meet me the next day. Why? Well, Fred here thought that... All right, you heard what gossip can do in this town. You can't even make friends or visit people without tongues wagging. I guess you were the man that kids saw walking down Shore Road, eh, Mr. Nicholson? Of course I was. But we intended to tell just as soon as the fuss died down. Well, I guess it doesn't figure. Things are what the evidence say they are. Not what they seem to be, but there's a little matter of triple indemnity now. Eh? What are you talking about? Yeah, you heard me. Triple indemnity. That insurance company stands to pay off on the biggest lawsuit any company ever had. I hurried as fast as I could, Mr. Valentine. Relax, friend, relax. Lieutenant Riley's gonna meet us out at Martin Brill's house, and I know Riley likes his breakfast. I won't do any good. Mr. Brill's already got his lawyers, my boss said so, and I'll be fired as sure as my smart little man is. Oh, now your boss knows better than to blame a good investigator. Good. Oh, sure. I've got a photographic memory. I'm always right. Well, now cool off and tell me how Mrs. Brill's life insurance policy stands as of now. She must really be dead. They don't need a body now to prove that, not without crazy caretakers' testimony, and what the Coast Guard said all along. When you look at them, even all the suspicious things about Mr. Brill fade into gossip, he was just being honest, that's all. How times do change? Well, I never did fall for all the talk, but I certainly fell for that story of the boy in the service station. That's when you put in your report recommending the refusal of Mr. Brill's insurance pay. I said with whole payment indefinitely, my company stuck its neck way out, and the acts will be sure to fall on me. Who knows about it? Everybody, the police, the banks, his whole town. He'll be suing your company, won't he? It'll be triple indemnity he collects, or maybe even better. You're so elementary. Do you blame Mr. Brill? No. But we'll have a talk with him. Oh. Here we are. Would you, uh, would you like some music on the radio, Mrs. Brill? No. I said, uh, like some music on the radio, Mrs. Brill. I thought if a joke is that.  No, no, no.  A lady insurance investigator would be an expert on how to swindle insurance companies. The main reason this shakedown lawsuit your husband's planning would work is because your company doesn't want to be embarrassed just before the opening of a big drive. Only Howard Martin know anything about them planning a drive. Easy. You're on the inside. You've always been on the inside. Always in the insurance game. Until you got the bright idea of being Mrs. Brill, whom nobody ever got to see very close. A drab brunette. That's you with a wig, I guess. And it's a cinch that with your makeup scraped off and a pair of glasses put on, you'd be drab. You're really bright. You remember everything. You recognize handwriting, for instance. And yet in one morning you looked at Miss Lydia's letter to me and at your own hotel bill made out by her and you didn't open your mouth. Why not? Who on earth is Miss Lydia? For a while I thought she might be mixed up in it too, but I guess she's not. But that caretaker, Mr. Nicholson, is, isn't he? What? Sure, sure, sure. The three of you. Martin, you, and Nicholson. I suppose he's just a hired hand, though. The guy who got next to a lonely spinster in Bayview so he could bring her out here on the day of the phony drowning and then make sure that she was seen sneaking away by that kid in the service. I don't even know what you're talking about. Your husband, Martin. His part was just to make people dislike him to behave suspiciously. Stop it, stop talking like this. Another one thing that kept bothering me was the amount of gossip too much for any time.  Stop it, stop it, let go of me. I'm getting out of this car. You don't. But the boys let you down when it came to murder, didn't they? What? Yeah, last night when the kid was murdered, your husband was careful to have an alibi and Nicholson, he was careful to spend the evening with his lady love. What? What kid do you mean? I mean the kid. The only person in Bayview who looked at you and recognized you as Mrs. Brill. And you must have known he might. Must have been watching him and worrying about him. And finally had to kill him because he was on the verge of getting in touch with me. Yeah, that's right, lady. There was a crumpled note in the wastebasket. And at first I didn't catch on. I thought he was talking about somebody else. But he wrote about that woman, Mr. Valentine. I thought I'd better check on her now for the last time you stay in the car, sister. There's nobody inside that house but cops. Sure, that's it, cops. And you're two gentlemen friends. So now I'll just leave you and join them. They're waiting to hear my gossip. Your gossip? That's right.  Accused them of the murder. Gossip. You gave me the idea. Mr. Valentine. Don't go anyplace, lady. I got the car keys. Hey! Got that, lady? Stop it! That's better. Oh, brother. Thank you, Riley. I didn't think she'd still have the gun on her purse. She doesn't have it now. Quick confession. I thought you'd run for it, Franny. You never know, do you? Okay. And you warned me, too. It's such a simple case. To the conclusion of our Let George Do It adventure in just a moment. George, did you mean it? That without her makeup, she'd be drab? Sure. Sure it was easy for a good-looking girl like Fran to make herself moussey on her few stray visits out at Bayview. And that's the way she looked when she took out a policy back east several years ago. Double identity for a triple indemnity. But you said good-looking. That's what you said. Well, I'm still not my type, Angel, so forget it. Oh, I'm not jealous. I didn't mean that. I'm never jealous of the ones who are going to live in prison, but, well... Come on. Come on. Get away from the mirror. It's time to go. George, didn't it ever occur to you, if she looked that way when she took out her insurance, when she was playing the part of Mrs. Brill, then she must have been drab when she was married? Angel, just put on your lipstick. You have just heard Triple Indemnity, another Let George Do It adventure. Robert Bailey was starred as George Valentine with Virginia Greg as Bruxy. David Victor and Jackson Gillis wrote the story with music by Eddie Dunstetter. Now this is yours truly inviting you to another visit with Valentine when you will again hear what happens when you Let George Do It.


What's up, why don't you just meet me downstairs? I'm gonna drive, okay? Yeah, I'll see you in a sec Sorry, I'm doing something.  We were getting my dad a car most type car video 2017 it's non-refundable not returnable. So either you can take it or it just goes in a trash can somewhere Okay, I gotta go meet my dad. We are going to check out a car for my mama I don't know if you guys watch the Christmas vlog But if you did my mom literally asked me to get her a car as a joke and now we're actually doing it So this is gonna be hilarious. It is for 10 10 minutes away for my favorite time. Just kidding. We did bad I also got a new camera. It is a Canon, what's it called 5d mark 4 is an absolute beast But it literally weighs like 10 pounds and with the lens on it's like 20 pounds So I can't vlog with it So I'll still be vlogging with this but this might be my new face cam camera I'm gonna bring it and put Connor on this and hopefully we can get my mom's reaction in really good quality Also, just clean my room my room's a mess again Alrighty, let's do this. I got cameras. I got batteries. I got lenses. We are ready to go my keys I forgot those on the spring break trip. I'm not doing that again. I thought you'd get me this time CTK I already clicked it but for the cinematic shot My dad's so impatient. He's me pissed. Okay, so the car we're looking at is a Lincoln MKC or MKZ. I don't actually know all I know is my mom really really wants an SUV for some reason To tell you about the car that she's been driving her whole life Originally when we were really young she had a white soccer mom van and then when we got to high school She upgraded to a silver soccer mom van She's been whipping a soccer mom van her whole life Recently she sold her van and she was supposed to drive my dad's old car that I replaced for him But that car broke down so now my mom is carless. So this SUV we're looking at is nasty I mean you guys will see it when we see it I don't want to tell you year and mileage of stuff because I don't want you guys to know how much you're spending Cuz like that's none of your business.  Never mind.  Nice car. Where'd you get it? What are we doing?  It's actually funny. Do you remember the Christmas vlog? I think he remembers I don't I don't remember what I said I said something to the extent of you'll get your time and she was like no don't so that's why we're here What a beautiful day, so we're headed to Lincoln I'll just say we're headed to a Lincoln dealership and we're gonna look at this gorgeous car I was saying it's too bad. She wants an SUV turn off oh Guess who forgot as well You don't have to guess it's me dad. I was telling them this last vlog, but how often do I forget stuff? What time is it? It's for 10. Yep. He forgot something right? Yes. No, I asked me in five minutes I got something Lincoln this looks pretty our car. Oh, there's mom's car Maybe I don't want to I don't want to jump any conclusions here I mean, I don't want to say it's mom's car yet because we haven't bought it I roll up to car dealerships with my camera out so that they think I'm gonna say bad things about them Unless they give me a good deal Dad didn't like that joke. Oh, it's a beautiful day. I didn't have my mic on I always do that All right, my dad's driving first. I guess you know, I'm buying it whatever dad Damn, this is nice. Look at this wood trim it's got see I'm not gonna say all these nice things about it in front of the dealer guy Because then I don't know I want it better or worse than the car. I got you the car You got me nothing to touch that nice.  Don't you think? See you say you're getting a good car and yet you're telling me I need to keep Old people you got love He figured it out. There's a button up here Oh And they got a jam on already Oh, that's actually cool. I didn't even know it's that till now. It's just a pressure.  I'm thinking cannot multitask. There's no such thing guys is multitasking Yeah, I was I was saying this earlier or the other. No, it just makes you do one thing where we're total nerds Nagging power, baby. How old do you guys think my dad is like six foot five one ninety five Overall verdict incredible car. I love the wood trim. My mom's gonna love this I knew she'd kind of want All right guys, we're we're about to be signing the papers. This is my guy Aaron right here This is signature Ford Lincoln and I got to get the handshake on the camera Awesome. Thanks so much. Okay. We're halfway through the procedure. We are basically owners of that car that car is gorgeous It works out perfectly. We got a great deal on it huge. Thanks to the guys down at signature Ford and Lincoln They were huge for helping us out. So you guys are awesome. This is not a paid sponsorship By the way, this is just me being nice But we are so close to giving this to my mom and it's just gonna be beautiful Yo, me and my dad are getting double. We just met a fan. This is Keegan. This dude is lit. Hey, nice to meet you Successful day. We almost have a car. We got to pick it up tomorrow But I got to jump up here because this is a perfect end of the day out here. Oh I don't know if you guys I don't know if it's doing it justice on the camera But there is a gorgeous pink or over there with the sun is setting. All right next time I see you guys I will be probably on the way to pick up the vehicle The time has come gentlemen We are headed back right now to give my mom the car fit for today You'll definitely see a pic of me wearing this on the gram brand new Levi's. Oh, I just got these they're kind of crispy What is this? This is the shirt. Look at this. This is the shirt that we got in that thread these box It's kind of sick. I want to wear. Um, yeah, I made a mess Sorry TK. Sorry Brandon. Oh check these out. I just got these two. They're ray bands, right?  It's a fold-up sunglasses and they're actual ray bands, too. Isn't that kind of dope? I am officially Casey Neistat. I'm literally Casey Neistat Actually, I am him. He is me and we're off, baby.  It's a gorgeous day. We're saying to try out my new camera, too So it's gonna be really fun electronically. This car is way nicer than mine like for example Tell me why does Lincoln has a remote siren on my Porsche first world problems. I can't remotely start my car There's a lot of things that are a lot nice about this car than my Porsche TVH slightly jealous only slightly I still like my Porsche though. Sorry mom seatbelts first y'all Dude, I feel like the ultra the ultimate soccer mom right now. I am ready to drop the kids off Let's do this moment of truth. I really hope this the surprise doesn't get ruined Oh god here we go. Oh my god. That is sexy. Let's do this. Where's my goose? Where's my goose? You're in a hole st. Patty's they vlog Hi mama Mama has a soccer game today as always. Yeah, she grinds on a soccer team Every time I get my kisses March madness, baby little known fact my dad was on the MSU men's gymnastics team for how many years for Poor varsity letters. How you get sips like that, baby It's such a weird bit though. They got some weird crew neck fits and not crazy Look at that camera it looks so good That's kind of weird am I allowed to hit on my mom like that goose? Oh god.  You know my mom's upset with me. I'm kind of embarrassed here I parked out here. Come here.  I already showed my fans. They said it's not that bad. My fans think it's cool Just keep going. Yeah, it's going I'm not accepting that. Is that I'll drive it. Can I drive it? I'll drive it. Oh That's not really yours. It's a big joke Okay, that's what I believe Okay, all right. Well talk to you later No, it's not my car No, it's not man. You can't do that No way Let's go get in it I think it's about a dad. She's already a motive. It's very more fun This is awesome Very gorgeous Sick, look at how mean look it looks in the front. It's a shark rail. It reminds me of my Mustang So good car She said did you pay for all that? Mom? I don't I don't speak broke nibba This is so beautiful. No, dad didn't pay for half. Why do you think I got all these racks? Why do you think I got these racks on me goose? Tell me I got racks on me Goose go eat them.  Are you picking up sarah? No, I'm not picking up sarah But you know what monday i'm picking up sarah I know i'm the best and i'm rich. There's only one thing in marriage and life and what's that mom? It's the only thing that matters in life love No money doesn't buy you love money bought me love right now because you love this car and you love me now We're gonna take it to florida. We were going to take that. Oh shoot. You're right. It's got a shark fin There it goes This is kind of not Guess we know what parent I love more Really nigga I didn't know what brand it was You want to do something ironic man? What you know what mom did today? What she got a new license Yeah, I know I heard her tell me that you didn't lose yours. Is that the back of your new car? Oh, you thought you lost it. Yeah, we took your license plate On the phone my mom goes. Yeah, I can't find my license plate. I'm getting a new one and it's on this car I didn't think about that. Yeah. Well, we put it on the floor to escape on it So it's literally so nice There's pieces of this are a lot better my than the morsh Look at the burlwood. This is so Beautiful looking with the wood baby. I could have never gotten this. Yeah. Well, I'm rich mom What do you mean? I didn't buy the whole thing you can see right?    Yeah fun fact of the day guys. Nala's real name is not goose It's actually not goose. Come here. I want cuddles. This is my dog and she loves me You could depict a more perfect color. There's now have my hers now have the best cars. Yeah, are you gonna get another car?  Well, there you have it folks Absolute highlight of the video was my mom asking if it was a Ford escape Is this the Ford escape? Is this a Ford escape? I'm excited to see you find the engine start button in the park reverse neutral drive Oh my gosh, there's no shift knob. That is so weird If you had not told me dude, it took me so long to find it But I think we're gonna end the video off. Oh, can we get food, please? Sure Okay, mama, but bye. Oh my gosh. I can't believe this is really mine It is yours now. All right guys. Thanks for watching. Peace out. I can't believe it's mine. I just I'm in shock. I gotta see. Okay. Bye. Okay. Bye


What's up everyone welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be talking about the 2018 conference finals for the Stanley Cup playoffs I'm really excited with these matchups I'm going to be giving my thoughts and opinions on who I think is going to win in a second Round one. I only got seven out of eight right. I thought I could have clean swept it But I didn't make a prediction for Vegas versus LA The second round only got one out of four correct, which was Vegas. I got Vegas, right? Everything else. I was wrong Washington capitals I thought the Penguins would win just because they always are dominant But I did want the capitals to win So I'm not counting that as when I got right because I did not predict that but I'm glad they advanced and the Winnipeg Jets I'm happy they advanced but in my opinion. I think the Nashville I think they would have done a little bit better especially going off against Vegas So let's just get right into this. We have Winnipeg Jets Versus Vegas like I was just saying Honestly, I think Vegas is gonna get this. I think it's gonna be 4-2 for Vegas I think Winnipeg is gonna do pretty good. I think they're gonna hold strong But against Vegas Honestly, I see Vegas going into the finals That is my prediction 4-2 for Vegas for this matchup at least and then next up for the eastern conference We have the Washington capitals versus Tampa Bay lightning I'm not a huge fan of lightning Not really sure everybody that's on their team. I don't really follow them at all But I do know some of the players But honestly, I feel like capitals are going to win this matchup I think it's also gonna be 4-2. I don't think lightning are going to do as good as everybody might think or assume Well that skin capitals. I think the capitals are gonna go really far I think they're gonna go to the finals So I think both Vegas and capitals are going to win their matchups And I think we're going to see them in the finals. This is my prediction my thoughts Of the conference finals. Let me know down below what you think who you think is going to win Did your team get eliminated? Let me know too. And who do you think is going to win the Stanley cup all together while it's all said and done at the end Once these matchups are over. I will give an update to one last video Sharing my thoughts of my thoughts and predictions on who I think is going to win And then I'll probably give you guys another updates after the Stanley cup champion is confirmed whoever wins it I'll give my updates my opinions my thoughts of if it's a team. I wanted to win it right here There's only one team. I don't really care if they want it and that is Tampa Bay lightning They've won it before back and I believe oh for correct me if I'm wrong in the comments but I think it should be a team that hasn't won it before Capitals win a peg or vegas of course vegas's first year It'd be really cool vegas won in my opinion. I honestly think that would be amazing their first year winning the cup That would be just the icing on the cake for me But I'm going to leave this video here comment everything like I just said down below and I'll see you guys in the next video Please take care peace


Sixודididididididididididudehnamamamamam NA The Jack Benney program presented by Lucky Strike. Feeling low, feeling tense. These eight words are common sense. Smart level best, that's just how you'll feel when you light up a Lucky because Lucky's fine debacle picks you up when you're low, calms you down when you're tense, you on the right level to feel and do your level best. It's important to know that fine tobacco can do this for you. And LSMFT, LSMFT. Lucky strike means fine tobacco, mild, ripe, light tobacco that makes a grand smoke. So next time you buy cigarettes, remember, lucky's fine tobacco, pick you up when you're low, calms you down when you're tense. Put you on the lucky level where you feel your best and do your best. Yes, smoke a lucky to feel your level best. It's Rochester, Dennis Day. Yours truly, Don Wilson. And our guest, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. Ladies and gentlemen, let's go out to Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, where we find Rochester helping Jack fix up his scrapbook. Now, Rochester, you got the scissors? Yeah, I'm cutting something out of the front page of the Pasadena News. It's a picture of you getting the Queen of the Rose Berets. Oh, yes. Gee, that is a nice picture of me, isn't it? And some color, too. It would be even nicer if your eyelashes weren't so pretty. My lashes aren't gray. Just that my eyes are so blue, they pick up lint. Now, Rochester, I've got enough clippings for my scrapbook. I better start pasting it, man. Boss, I looked everywhere, but I can't find the glue. Well, just make some flour and water. That'll make it good. I thought of that, too, but we're all out of flour. We're out of flour? Yeah, yesterday I had hardly enough to finish baking the bread. Well, if we're short of flour, why'd you bake so much bread? I had two barbers, now we've got four extra loaves. The reason's yet. Well, why don't you run over to the Coleman's and borrow a cup of, hey, wait a minute. I haven't seen Mr. Coleman for quite a while. Hand me a cup. I'll go get the flour. Here you are. Back, Rochester. Yeah, da-dee-da-doom, da-dee-da-dee. Bum-bum, hmm. As long as I'm going over, I really should have brought a larger cup. Oh, well, I guess this cup will be all right. Can it be the trees that fill the breeze with rain? A lot of people out today. La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la-la. Thank you. Yeah, da-dee-da-doom, da-dee-da-doom, da-dee-da-doom. Gee, the Coleman's keep their lawn nice and, oh, isn't that cute.   When I make my next picture, maybe they'll give me a garbage can. I mean, an Oscar. Oh, it's you, Mr. Benny. Oh, hello, sir. Is Mr. Coleman in? Yes, yes, he's in the library. Well, could you tell him that I'd like to borrow a cup of flour? Oh, there's no need to tell him. I'll give you the flour. Oh, shall I? That won't be necessary. I'll sift it to you through the screen door. I have the sack right here on the shelf. What is that? Oh, by the way, Sherwood, I tried to call Mr. Coleman on the phone this morning, but I couldn't get him. Did he change his number since I talked to him last week? Yes, sir, three times. Oh, well, I hope he got the one he likes. Will this be enough flour, Mr. Benny? Yes, yes. I'm just going to use it to make a little paste. You see, I'm working on my scrapbook, and I'm sticking in the many things that have been said about me. You save those? Yes, yes. Well, thanks for the shower, Flurwood. I mean, thanks for the flour, Sherwood. You're quite welcome, sir. This weather, my tongue froze there. Well, I must ask the Coleman to put a gate in the back so I won't have to clear out to the sidewalk. Yeah, da-dee-da-da-da-da-dee. There's Ronnie's long underwear hanging on the line. He's got a gate in those. Da-dee-da-da-da-da-da-da-dee. Oh, Jack! Jack! Oh, hello, Mary. Hey, come on in the house, Mary. I haven't got time. I just stopped by to ask if I could skip rehearsal tomorrow. Skip rehearsal? Why? Well, my sister, Babe, is coming in from playing field, and she's trying to forget a broken romance. Oh, no. Not Sebastian. No. No, a new one. Oh. And she was so in love with him, they were already into a lope. The ladder was up against the house, the window was open, and Babe was so embarrassed. Why? He wasn't home. Yeah, it's a shame. What did she do? Well, as long as she was up there, she painted the house. Well, when a guy gives you the brush, I guess she must need it. Who was that, uh, Mary? You know, you got to have to live once in a while. Mary, who was this new love of hers? Well, I don't know his name, but she said he was making good money. He was a glass blower. A glass blower? Yeah. Whenever Babe went out with a mama could always tell when he'd kissed her. How? When Babe came home, her head would be three times its size. Three times its size? That was when he gave her a plane kiss. Once he got fancy, in her head looked like a stu-da baker. Good old Babe, I knew she could do it.  Oh, no, no, Jack, I've got her on long now. See you later. OK. Da-da-dee-da-da-da. Yes, a nice Cadillac Mary has. I would have gotten one too, but they didn't make them then. In those days, they only had three models, Maxwell, Saxons, and horses. Oh, Rochester. Rochester, I got the flowers so we can make the apace. You all need it now, boys. I found some glue. I've already pasted things in the book. Wait a minute. This stuff doesn't seem to be sticking very well. Rochester, is this glue fresh? Fresh, only two days ago, it was eight to one at Santa Anita. What? I had him across the board, win place in Musilich. No. Well, how do you like that? I'll get the door. Oh, hello, Dennis. Hello, Mr. Benny, I just came over to tell you the good news. Good news? What? I finally got two tickets for the Rose Bowl game. Dennis, that game was played almost three weeks ago. I know. That's why they're so hard to get now. Dennis, Dennis, come in a minute. Now, let me get this straight. Maybe I'm the one that's confused. Are these tickets for the game that was just played or the one that's going to be played next year? What do you care? I'm not taking you.  Now, do me a favor. Will you go outside and come back in again? OK. Oh, hello. Howdy, bub. Well, that's better. Now, you're tight as moody. Yep, and I've got two tickets to the Rose Bowl game.  Look, kid, what did you come over here for anyway? Well, I wanted you to hear the song I'm going to do on the program. Well, why didn't you say so? Let's hear it, will you? OK, OK. Clancy was a peaceful man, if you know what I mean. The cops picked up the pieces after Clancy left the scene. He never looked for trouble, that's a fact you can assume. But nevertheless, when trouble would press, Clancy lowered the boom. Oh, there Clancy, oh, there Clancy. Whenever they got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Oh, here he was, a fighting man, they all knew he was tough. He strutted round the neighborhood, just shooting off his gun. He picked a fight with Clancy, then and there, he sealed his doom. Before you could shout, oh, there is Clancy. Before you could shout, oh, there he looked out. Clancy lowered the boom. Oh, there Clancy. Whenever they got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Now Clancy left the barbershop with Tonic on his hair. He walked into the poor room and he met O'Reilly there. O'Reilly said, for goodness sakes, now do I smell perfume? Before you could stack your chew in the rack, Clancy lowered the boom. Oh, there Clancy. Whenever they got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. The neighbors all turned out for Kato Grady's wedding night. McDougal said, let's have some fun. I think I'll start a fight. Direct the hall, then kiss the bride and pulverize the groom. Then quick as a wink before you could think, Clancy lowered the boom. Whenever they got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom. Clancy lowered the boom. What was the greatest sight you ever did see when Clancy lowered the boom? Very good, Dennis. You're saying that beautifully. Yeah, I heard it. One bad kid. Phil, I didn't see you. Why didn't you tell me you were here? Well, I didn't want to intrude while you were so enraptured by Mr. Day's musical rendition. Phil, Phil, that come out of you? Why? What's so incongruous about that? Incongruous? Listen to me, Jackson. It's often literature and English and even in music. Music, too? Well, that I'm glad to hear. Certainly, Jackson. I just came from the library where I picked up this book on music by Grofay. Oh, Purdy Grofay? No, he's brother George. George Grofay? I never heard of him. Well, here's the book right here. I've been reading it all morning. There it is on the cover, George Grofay. That's geography. I'll learn about... Dennis, get away from my scrapbook. Dennis, stop drinking out of that bottle. It's glue. Dennis, it's glue. Oh, my goodness. Dennis, speak to me. You better stop it, kid. If you want to get any place in show business, you've got to stop being ridiculous, ludicrous, incompetent, and uncool. Phil, where'd you learn all those words? Well, they're in my contract with Rexall. What? Right under the sobriety clause. Phil, do you know what sobriety means? No, what? It means that according to that contract, you're not allowed to take a drink. Holy smoke, I've signed my life away. Phil, Phil, denatured boy. Do me a favor, pick up Dennis in that geography book, and let's... Well, I have a wonderful contract with my sponsor, Colgate. I don't have to sign anything. We just shake hands. Really? Yeah, but I think he's nearsighted. Your sponsor nearsighted? Why? When my option came up, instead of shaking my hand, he grabbed me by the throat. Well, if you gave him that Rose Bowl routine, I don't blame him. Now, look, kid... Boys, boys! What is it, Rochester? I was preparing your lunch, and I found we're all out of butter. We're all out of butter? Well, you know what to do. I'm on my way. Mr. Coleman, here I come. You're the one we borrowed from. In the library, Benita, who was that at the back door? Mr. Benny's Butler, Manchester. Milk? No. Sugar? No. Glorious Weeks in Honolulu. Yes, Benita, I'm getting sharp. Yeah, but you know, let's not talk about it, Benny. It only upsets me. Borrowing, borrowing, borrowing. What a neighbour. Well, darling, sometimes he tries to be helpful. During the freezing weather the other night, when you were worried about our orange trees, Jack did come over and lend you a smudge pot. Yeah, some smudge pot. Three old toupees smouldering in a broken pressure cooker. What about the snow? Tuesday morning he volunteered to shovel all the snow away from our house, and he did it too.  Cricked him into doing all that work. Yes, Benita, I must confess, even though it makes me a bit of a stinker, I did. There's little things like that that make life worth living. For once I got even with him for his constant borrowing. Now, Ronald, you shouldn't be too hard on Jack. After all, it isn't his fault that he's like he is. It's just fate. What do you mean? Well, you know the famous saying, there but for the grace of God, go I. Yes, but what's that got to do with it? Well, people can't help being who they are. It's fate. You could have been born Jack Benny. And he could have been Ronald Coleman. Benita, have you been nipping the sherry again? No, King. Now, you know, it's something to think about. Well, I'm too tired to think about it now. We're going out to dinner tonight. I'm going to take a little nap. I'll lie down here on the... Oh! Only I should have told you he borrowed the couch too. Darling, darling, if you want to take your nap, why don't you just sit here in this easy chair? Well... You'd better hurry while it's still here. All right. I will. I'll turn out the lights and light. I'll turn out the lights and leave you alone. Thank you. Have a nice nap, dear. Sometimes Benita has the weirdest ideas. Imagine her saying it's just fate that I could have been born Jack Benny. Whoa, what a nauseating thought. This is a comfortable chair. I feel so good to close my eyes. Yes, Ronnie, you could have been born Jack Benny. You could have been Jack Benny. You could be Jack Benny. You could be Jack Benny. You could be Jack Benny. Is it Rochester? Today's... Today's payday. Some of your cast is waiting... I might as well go in. Help me on with my shoes, Rochester. Why? You'll just have to take them off again when you pay them. Yeah, I guess you're right. You know, Rochester, I'm a pretty lucky man. My cast has been wonderful to me. They're always on time. They work hard, they try their best, and always give great performances. I wish there was something I could do to show my gratitude. Why don't you give them a raise? I will not. Magic perfume. Oh, I understand you're all here for your salaries. Here's yours, Mary. Well, thanks, Jack. Don? Thanks, Jack. Dennis? Whoops, dropped it. The latest news about Don. He's got another show now. Well, congratulations, Don. What program is it? Well, it's the Alan Young show, Jack. Alan Young, eh? He's a clever comedian. How does it feel having two shows? Oh, wonderful, and the nice thing about it is that one of my bosses is young. Blimp belly. Any more cracks like that? Ouch, Dennis, why are you biting my leg?  Well, since you're all here, I want to invite you to my birthday party on February the 14th. Say that's right, Jack. Next month is your birthday. Yep, time sure flies. One more month and I won't be 39 any more. 39? Where were you born on a slow boat to China? A slow boat to China, slow boat to China, slow boat to China. Better watch it, sister, or you'll be on a fast bus to the make-up. My mother. Really? And what does the command decision of your father's life have to say? Oh, nothing much, except that the Dennis Hell convention in Plainfield when my sister Babe was voted Miss Lower Plate Wobble of 1949. Good old Babe, I knew she could do it. Oh, by the way, Jack, what are you planning to do on the program next week? Well, I want to do a Shakespearean sketch, and I'm going to try and get Ronald Coleman as a guest star. I've even offered him a hundred dollars. A hundred dollars? Why, you can't get Ronald Coleman to do Shakespeare for that? Done. He's such a big ham, he'll jump at the chance. Well, have you finished the script for Mr. Coleman yet? Yes, Mary, I have it right here. Listen to this wonderful Shakespearean soliloquy I'm going to have Ronnie do. To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to enjoy a lucky end so to feel thy level best, or to smoke, to puff, a chance to blow a smoke ring. Aye, there's the thrill. Come, let me light thee. Art thou not round and firm and fully bent? Art thou not first again with friends, Romans, Countrymen? Art thou not a noble creation? Your praise is tripping lightly from the nimble tongue of speedy regs. Aye, Horatio, the tobacco's the thing that makes a lucky fitting for a king. And Jack Benny could have been born Ronald Coleman. Jack could have been Ronald Coleman. I'm in the library, Benita. Doing Ronnie? I'm looking at the list of nominees for the Academy Awards. My name is Nonnet. But, darling, you didn't make a picture this year. How can you expect to win anything? I thought they might give me some sort of an award for living next to Benny. Get how I despise that blue-eyed babble. Oh, darling, don't pick on his appearance. Why not, after all, Benny's eyes aren't really blue. I happen to know that he dies them. I forget him, dear. Remember what happens to your blood pressure when you think of Benny? I can't help thinking of that jerk, always borrowing. Eggs, milk, cream, butter. Doesn't he have anything of his own? What does he keep in his icebox? A film of the hornblows at midnight. Oh, yes, if I ever made a picture like that, I'd ask Clancy to lower the boom. Oh, Ronnie, forget Jack, and let's talk about something else. I haven't told you before, but I'm planning a hunting trip for us up in the High Sierras. In the High Sierras? Or are we gonna hunt bear? No, we'll be wearing your long underwear.  It's not funny, Benita. Anyway, I don't want to go hunting. I want to go to the races at San Anita. Anita? Come here, darling. Oh, don't, dear. Don't. You're tickling me.  It's only us.  Come here, Benita.  Oh, Ronnie, that was wonderful. Kiss me again. Ronnie, Ronnie, Ronnie. Oh, it's you, Benita. Yes, I've been calling you for five minutes. Oh, well, where did he go? Where did Benny go? Benny, Jack wasn't here. Oh, he wasn't, eh? Now, Benita, I distinctly saw you kiss him. Me? Kiss? Jack? Benny? Have you gone out of... Oh, wait a minute. You must have dreamed it. Yes, I guess I did. Well, that settles it. We'll have to move. Move? Benita, I don't mind Benny borrowing everything I've got.  But when he starts to last up my dreams, that's too much, my girl! Too much! Ladies and gentlemen, the nation's fight against infantile paralysis continues relentlessly. But your contributions must keep rolling in to continue this fight. A covered wagon has just been sent across the country with Jack Benny's vault in it to collect your dimes and dollars to aid in this worthy cause. Obviously, the wagon can only visit a limited number of cities, so please send your dimes and dollars to Jack Benny in care of your local CBS station or direct to the March of Dimes. Let's all join in the fight against polio by contributing to the March of Dimes. Thank you. Jack, we'll be back in just a moment. But first... Smoke a lucky To feed your love won't pass Smoke... To feed your love... As luckies find tobacco, picks you up when you're low, calms you down when you're tense. It's good to know that find tobacco can do this for you. And that's why it's so important that you select and smoke the cigarette of find tobacco lucky strike. For as every smoker knows... L-S-M-F-T... L-S-M-F-T... Lucky strike means find tobacco. No wonder more independent tobacco experts, auctioneers, buyers, and warehousemen smoke lucky strike regularly than the next two leading brands combine. So when you choose your cigarette, remember that luckies find tobacco puts you on the right level, where you feel your best and do your best. Yes, when you are feeling low, feeling tense, these eight words are common sense. Smoke... To feed your love won't pass. Smoke... Thanks, Ronny and Bonita, and good night, everybody. Be sure to stay tuned to the Amos and Ady-Charles Follows immediately, and the rest of the CBS Sunday Night Line Up, which includes Armist, Brooks, Sam Spade, and Lemon Avenue. And don't forget, through Friday, the Lucky Strike Program, your lucky strike starring Don Amici. And don't miss Dennis Day in a day in the life of Dennis Day. This is CBS The Columbia Broadcasting System.


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