The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents Soldiers of the Soil, a radio adaptation of a new motion picture produced in Hollywood for DuPont, and starring Russell Hayden, Carol Nye, and the original Hollywood cast. This Thanksgiving season, the American farmer can well be proud of his 1943 record, a year in which he produced the greatest crops in the history of our country. DuPont is grateful that many of its better things for better living contributed to that production record. The food administration has set the production goal for 1944 at 383 million acres, 16 million more than last year, and chemistry will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the farmer in helping him to make these acres more productive. Chemical treatment of seeds will aid in controlling plant diseases. Insecticides and sprays will prevent loss from insect pests and still other products of chemical research will help increase livestock poultry and egg production. These are some of the ways in which chemistry will help the farmer to reach his 1944 production goals. Tonight with Russell Hayden and Carol Nye and the original motion picture cast of Soldiers of the Soil, Cavalcade salutes the American farmer and his part in wartime production by bringing you a play of wartime courage of a different sort, a warm human tale of two brothers. It is the story of John Landis, an American, who did not realize that his farm was a battlefield until he saw it through the eyes of his brother in uniform. Our play adapted for radio by Stuart Hawkins from the new DuPont motion picture Soldiers of the Soil stars Russell Hayden as John Landis and Carol Nye as his brother David on the Cavalcade of America. The Landis farm in Jefferson County is like the thousands of other farms that spread across this land of ours. Here, too, are the sounds of war of tractors, machines and men taking food from the earth for a nation locked in struggle. Seated on his tractor, John Landis is mowing his fields, a man in overalls working on his farm. Did you pull that last roll of beets like you might ask you to? Yes, Pa. OK, son, go ahead. Yippee, gee, thanks. Joey. Yes? Whose car is that to stop by the house a few minutes ago? OK.  Mind your back by mokentime. Yeah. Why didn't he let his noise come in? Where is he, Mother? Not quite so fast, John. Grace is bringing him out to the garden. He's here. They come now. Hi, Davey. What's the idea? Over this way, David. David. Hi, Johnny. Davey. This is great, Davey. Having you back again? Sure is good to be back, Johnny. They wrote you'd been hurt, but we didn't know that you were. You can say it, Johnny. Blind. David. It's all right, Mother. I'll get used to it after a while. I'll get along all right. Sure. Sure, you old Davey. The important thing is you're back. That's why I didn't write. I knew it'd be easier for all of you if you didn't know until you saw me. Tell me, John, how's the farm doing? Had a good year, Dave. A real good year. Milk and 40 cows, you know. 40 cows? Well, that's twice as many as you had last year, isn't it? We've been expanding all around, David. You'll hardly know the place. Well, how much corn did you put in, John? 45 acres? 20 more than last year. What have you been doing, buying more land? No. Where'd you get the extra acreage then? Drained it, Davey. Drained it? The old swamp, the foot of the woodlot? Uh-huh. Dammed up the brook and laid out irrigation ditches in three fields. Well, you see it. I mean, I, well, say, Mother, where's Dad? Why isn't he here to welcome Davey back? He went into town about two o'clock. He wanted to see Dick about something. Well, let's get ahold of him right away. I've been telling him to bring Dick out for dinner tonight. This calls for a celebration. A real family get together. Now that Davey's back? Yes. Yes, of course. Come on, Davey.  I, gosh, I just can't tell you how good it is to have you back, Davey. Another piece of pie, John. No thanks, Mother. How about you, Dick? Well, two's my limit. Well, pass David's plate. I know he'll have some more. I wish I had room for it, Mother, but I'm full right up to here. You know I've dreamt about a family meal like this for almost a year. And this is better than any of my dreams. Your mother's cooking hasn't changed since you laughed, huh, son? Still the best in the world. Guess you got pretty well acquainted with emergency rations out there, didn't you, Dave? I'll say. Now all right, too, Dick, when you haven't got anything else. A lot better than we had in the last war, I'll bet. I can still remember how we did it. Dick, do you have to bring up 1918 again? We're going through one war. Why drag up another? Sorry, John, I was thinking how much better they do things today. Uncle David? Yes, Joey? Do you remember Booji? That funny little puppy, yours? Sure. Won't she eat a pup anymore? She just had puppies of her own, six of them. Well, what do you know? If you'll come out in the barn, I'll show them to you. I mean, uh, uh.   No matter the fact, I'd like to go out and get re-equated with Booji. Well, come on then. Here, take hold of my hand. OK, Joey. You suppose Booji'll remember me? Oh, sure she will. And the puppies are awful cute. Where do you see them? I mean, well, they feel awful cute too, Uncle David. I'll bet they do. John, dear, we must tell Joey to be more careful what he says. I wouldn't worry about it, Grace. David, understand? Sure he does. I've got a hand at it, David. It's taken this mighty well. Well, how else do you expect him to take a dick? You don't have to snap at me every time I open my mouth, John. Well, uh, you men go into the other room while Grace and I clean up. Yes. Yes, go ahead. I'll be right back. Wait a minute. I've got something I want to say to you all. I'm enlisting in the Marines. John.  I'm going to enlist. I can't stay here doing nothing, not after what they did to David. But you can't go. We need you here, son. My mind's made up. I've got to go. Well, you'll have to get someone to help you with the farm, Dad. I can't find anyone to take your place, John. Good hands are mighty scarce now. Besides, you are this farm. You're what makes it go. Yes, John. Your father's not strong enough to run it alone. You know he isn't.  Now, wait a minute, John. I know how you feel, but your draft board knows where you can be most useful. That's right, son. Everybody can't fight. Your place is here. Not for me, it isn't. All my life, I've been the one who had to stay here. This time I'm going. Nothing, anything, whatever you can say is going to stop me. Now, don't fly off the handle. Be reasonable about it. Reasonable. You can talk, Dick. You're old enough for the last war. You've given your business to work in a war plant. You're doing your part. You can feel good about it. But how do you think I feel? John. Every time I go into town, I see people looking at me. Old man Jackson, who's three sons in the Navy. And Mrs. Elridge with her. Oh, but John, these people have nothing against you. Oh, I know how Mrs. Elridge thinks about me. John, everybody knows that Mrs. Elridge's son, Tom, was reported missing after that air raid. But she doesn't hold it against anybody? Yes, but the way she looks at me, even Lil' Joey, my own son, he tried to hide it. But he's ashamed of me. Oh, John, dear, he isn't. Yes, he is, Grace. You saw him fingering David's uniform and looking at his medals? Well, of course he did, darling. But Joey's not the same. Anyhow, the big reason is David. This afternoon, the minute I saw him, I knew I had to go. Every time I looked at David for the rest of my life, I'd hate myself for taking the easiest way out, staying on here when I ought to be out there where he was. So I'm going. But John. Going out to the barn, a couple of things I didn't quite finish doing before dinner. I'm sure it feels mighty bad. What's happened to David? Grace, you better go after him. Yes, I can't think. Maybe I had. John? Oh, John. Yes, Grace? John, I just thought maybe I could help you. I'll manage all right, Grace. I, uh, well, I wanted to be sure you could get a way to go to church for the rest of us tomorrow. Church? Yes, they've asked David to speak about the war and all. I don't see how I can go, Grace. Now, John, it's not because you're. Of course not, Grace. You know how I feel about Dave, but, oh, Grace, you understand, don't you? Well, I'm trying roughly hard to, anyhow. I'm sorry I sort of sprung it on you so quick just now. I should have told you first, I guess, but I just wouldn't stay inside of me any longer. I know. You were the only one who didn't say anything, Grace. Well, it wasn't much to say, John. No woman wants to see her husband go, but I, well, I wouldn't want you to stay if you don't think it's right. Well, thanks, Grace. But, John, you will try to come to church tomorrow. We're all going over together with the Jacksons and the Eldritches. Oh, now, John, please don't feel that way. I just can't help it, Grace. Every time I see Mrs. Eldridge, I think how they've lost their young Tom. The trouble she's having on the farm just seems like I couldn't even look her in the face. But she doesn't feel that way, John. Maybe. Anyway, that's how I feel. No, Grace, I'm not going to church tomorrow. There is a congregation. There is someone here today. I'm going to ask to speak in my place. Most of us have known David Landis all his life, as his friends and neighbors. We remember our pride in him when he became one of our most distinguished young professors at the State University. We remember our pride when he was among the first to go to war. Now that he's back, we know the sacrifices made. We are proud and grateful to be able to claim him as one of our own. David, we welcome you home. It'll be a great honor to me if you'll come up and take my place this morning. Let me help you, David. Yes, David. Let me help you. All right. Step right up here in front. There we are. Yesterday when I was asked to speak to you, I wondered what I could say. You, the farmers of America, have been asked to produce more than ever before, short-handed as you are. Is the job you are doing as important as a job in a war plant or in uniform? My brother John has been asking himself the same question. Last evening he told us he'd made up his mind. He wants to put on this uniform that I must now take off. He wants to fight with a gun in his hands. I know, as John knows, it is hard to be a farmer. No medals, no glory. Only long, hard days of toil, getting up by lantern light in the bitter cold of winter darkness, mending fences in the shivering rains of early spring, hanging under the beating heat of summer suns. Nobody tell you it's a battle? Nobody put your name in headlines? John found out something about that in the last war. It was 1917. John had a calf all his own that father had given him to raise. John was the proudest boy in the county. He cared for that calf all through the summer, loved it. Then one day a man came in a big truck. The man and dad went to talk to John. John, this is the man who's come to buy our calves. Buy our calves? You know, we've got more calves than we can raise now and the army needs them for meat. That's what we're doing here on the farm to help win the war, raising things the soldiers need. Does he want to buy a billy, too? Yes, Johnny, he wants to buy your calf, too. Do I have to sell it, Dad? I don't suppose you have to, son. The army needs food, needs it mighty bad. Men can't win battles on an empty stomach, Johnny. I... You see, food's just as important as guns and shells in the war, Johnny. What do you say? All right, I'll let him have my calf. I don't mind if it'll help win the war. Honest, I don't. While listening to the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by Dupont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presenting Russell Hayden and Carol Nye in Soldiers of the Soil. Our play is the story of two brothers, David Landis, who went to war and John Landis, who stayed at home to run the farm. Now, David, blinded by the war, has returned home, and John feels that he must take his brother's place in uniform. The family and the neighbors, the Eldritches, have gathered in church to hear David's story of the war. John, self-conscious and sensitive because he thinks his neighbors and friends are critical of him for not being in the service, did not want to come to church. Now, as our play continues, we find that John, because of his love for his brother, has slipped quietly into the back of the church. He listens as David is speaking. Yes, I know that all of you farmers are troubled with grave doubts. You wonder if you should shoulder a gun. It takes a strong brave man to stand his ground in the front line of this other battle, this battle of the soil. It took a good man to stand his ground when the dust rolled year after year in clouds that billowed like a tropic storm, pile like drifting snow along the fence posts and across the fields, or when the sky was bright and empty day after day, week after week, and the green spring crops turned brown, withering and dying for a little rain. I remember those days, too, and how the farmers would look out across their fields, full of dying in their eyes. Sam. Yes, Mother. Maybe we ought to give up the farm. Look at those fields, scorched and burned. They won't even be worth harvesting. Yes, maybe we should sell the place. I know how hard it's been for you, Sam. I've hated to see what it's done to you.  I've thought about the boys a lot, too, Sam. I'd hate to do it, though, Ellen. I'm a farmer. My feet have always been in the furrow. That's where they belong. Hello, Dad, Mother. Did I bust in on something? No, no, we were just talking. Must have been something pretty serious, the way you both look. We were talking about leaving the farm. Leaving the farm? There's another crop gone this year, John, unless we get rain in the next few days. It's been awfully hard for you and David. We know that. Is it us you're thinking about, Dad? Is that what you're thinking of leaving the farm? I don't want to see you boys go through what I've gone through.  Well, I wouldn't want to, but if I thought it was best, I'd... We'll be all right. You and Mother have had this farm too long to leave it now, for anybody. Oh, John. We'll just work a little harder next year, that's all. This land is good land, and it's ours. And I know you... you want to fight to keep it good and keep it ours, and that's what we're going to do. No medals, no glory, but men who save the land save lives. And for every farm where the crops grow again, because there was a man with courage to weather out the storm, today there is a company of other fighting men in the front halfway around the world. It's not always easy to stand aside so that others may pass by, but when I thought of John, I remembered that had always been his way, like the time when we were both in high school. Say, Dave, heard Mother and Dad talking about sending us to college. College? Gee, I've dreamed about that, John, but ever since I was a kid, I've never dared to ask him, but... Yeah, I know. The thing is, the farm. Yes, one of us would have to stay behind and help Dad. That's right. I just wanted you to know how I stand on it, Dave, so we could both tell him the same thing. Sure, but you know, John, as far as college is concerned, I'm not really as anxious about it as I sound. I'm a loader than you, and I could be more... Sure, I know. Now, listen, you're the one who's always wanted to go to college.  No, John, I couldn't. Listen, Dave, I'm a farmer. That's what I'm cut out to be, and that's what I want to be.  I'll stay here on the farm. That was John. That had always been his way. But sometimes it takes a long time to find out what a man is really like, even when he's your own brother. Sometimes you think so much about yourself and what you're doing that you haven't time to see. But it's when I got my degree in, came home from college that I began to realize how much John was doing. He was showing me around the farm. Yeah, there've been some changes, all right. This is Nushed, isn't it, John? You said you went away. Take a look inside. Gosh, is all that machinery ours? Uh-huh. Binder, hayloader, corn planter, tractor. We're building up quite a collection. Can you run all these things, John? Sure, run them, take them apart, and put them back together again. What's all this stuff in these bags? Oh, that's a new kind of fertilizer we got, a chemical. What's nitrogen back in the soil? You should see the difference in the crops we get now. I guess it's not only the farm that's changed since I went away, is it, John? Oh, farm has changed a lot, too, lately. I've never seen anything like that before anywhere. Well, that's a seed-treater. We disinfect the seed with a chemical before planting. It helps prevent any seed decay. John, where'd you learn all this? Oh, county agent. Of course, it's from the State Agriculture College. You know, all these years, I thought I was the one getting the education. I wish I knew half as much as you know now. That's when I-why I knew when the war came, I was the one who should go because John was more valuable to the war right here at home than I ever could be, wherever I was. He still is. I know that a lot of you here at home have had the same doubts in your minds that John has had. I know a lot of you would like to put on a uniform and fight, but believe me, the fighting that you're doing here is the hardest kind a man can do. Without you, there could be no victory anywhere. You are fighting the battle of food. Each one of you is a soldier of the soil. David? Yes? I'm Mrs. Eldridge, David. I'd like to say something if I may, and I'd like to say it to your brother John. John? Yes, he's here. He came in church while you were speaking. I just want to say that I know John has thought that since we lost our Tom, maybe we didn't appreciate what the men back here on the farms were doing. But we do, John. Why, we're as proud of you as we could be of our own son. We want you to stay with us, John, and do what you've been doing, because we know it's the finest thing that anyone could do. Anywhere. David? First I didn't want to come to church. Now I'm glad I did, because now I know you're right. David, I'm going to stay on the farm. I know I'll be doing my part here. What was it you said we farmers are? Soldiers of the soil. That's what I want to be. A soldier of the soil. Our thanks to Russell Hayden and Carol Nye and to the others in our cast for this tribute to the magnificent achievement of America's farmers. Mr. Hayden will return to the microphone in just a moment. Tonight's program, Soldiers of the Soil, was adapted from the new motion picture produced in Hollywood for DuPont. If you live in a rural area, your county agricultural agent and your vocational teacher in your local high school can arrange for group showings. If you're a town or city dweller, ask the secretary of any local organization to which you belong to write to the radio section DuPont Company, Wilmington 98 Delaware, for information on securing the film, Soldiers of the Soil. This week the nation observes its tradition of Thanksgiving Day. And here is Gane Whitman to remind us of the things for which America has reason to be thankful. Looking backward at our Thanksgiving Day of 1942, gloomy with foreboding, we have much indeed for which to give thanks this year. We thank the Almighty that in our just cause we have found our national unity and a will to win. Have found leaders and men, weapons and tools with which to drive our enemies into retreat. We are thankful that we can look ahead this year confidently to victory. Thankful for the soldiers and sailors, the fliers, marines, coast guardsmen who make our confidence a tower of stone rather than a rope of sand. We are thankful, even those of us who have lost beloved sons and husbands and friends, that the loss of life on the fighting fronts has been no greater. We are thankful that we of the home front have settled down grimly to support our men in the field. We are thankful that American industry, management and labor have proved ready and able in this great time of crisis. We are thankful for our soldiers of production. We are thankful that American farmers working under almost insuperable difficulties lacking labor and machines have managed nevertheless to feed us and our valiant allies. We are thankful for the abundance the farmers have given the United Nations this year. May we, as our President urges in his Thanksgiving proclamation, resolve to share and play square with food. Yes, we must resolve to share and play square with the food which is produced by our soldiers of the soil. We are thankful for the American ingenuity that has enabled us to face terrible problems and solve them. For the American optimism that has enabled us to face severe hardships with a smile. For the American doggedness that has enabled us to absorb early reverses and use them as a spur to our resourcefulness and resiliency as Americans working together. Last of all, we are thankful for the nation's past. For the past was the creation of our fathers who have bequeathed us much that we revere and hallow. But we are still more thankful for the future because democracy has successfully met its great challenge and the future is ours. With a sureer step now we stride on towards a better, juster world. We of the new world we who meet in friendship and goodwill this is our giving of thanks in the year of our lord 1943. Here's a timely tip to motorists from Dupont. Don't let a sudden freeze catch your motor without winter protection. Have your dealer or service station clean the radiator, check hose connections, cylinder bolts, water pump, heater, fan and belt. Then add the proper amount of antifreeze. And finally, if you'd like to know more about the proper care of your car for both winter and summer send for the new Dupont cooling system booklet. For your free copy just mail a postcard to the Dupont Company radio section Wilmington 98, Delaware. And now here is Russell Hayden star of this evening's Cavalcade and of the new Dupont motion picture Soldiers of the Soil. Thank you very much. It's been an inspiration to pay tribute to all the farmers in America in this evening's program. To all those soldiers of the Soil who by the sweat of their brown, the labor of their hands are providing food without which victory would be impossible. We hope you like this evening's play that you will have an opportunity to see the picture soon. Thank you. Next week the Cavalcade of America will bring you two of Hollywood's top favorites, Lloyd Nolan and Warner Baxter in The Wise Mad General. Our play tells of one of the most dramatic moments in American history when eleven regiments of American soldiers angry, resentful came to a fork in the road. Would they go over to the enemy or would the people on the home front give them the clothes and food and ammunition they must have to go on fighting for freedom. Dupont invites you to be its guest again next Monday evening when Cavalcade brings you two great motion picture stars Warner Baxter and Lloyd Nolan in The Wise Mad General. A gripping, exciting story of a war which America almost lost. The music on tonight's program was composed and conducted by Robert Armistor. This is James Bannon sending best wishes from Cavalcade sponsor the Dupont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. Thank you from Hollywood. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


We got some really dope advice that any of y'all that want to get involved in music, the industry in terms of your career, take this advice, and it's coming from our guy K-Von from who works at Genius. But I'll let him speak a little bit on himself because he does that in this clip, too. Industry is something I've learned in my career that might help you in yours. I'm the director of A&R Genius and I've been in the industry now for about seven years. This is something that I've learned that I think has helped me even now. Make sure you can identify and understand your value and skill set. This is super important. If you're applying for jobs, if you're interviewing, if you're looking for your first job in the industry, this is important. And if you do stuff that isn't necessarily a real job, but you have experience, this is even more important for you. Employers want to know this stuff about you. They want to know what your skill set lies. And if you can back it up with the results, that's even better. So you can demonstrate exactly what your value is and not condescend yourself. Beautiful, beautiful shout out to K-Von. Matter of fact, y'all follow him. He's always looking for quality music. You know what I mean? Don't spam him. Don't spam him. You know, that might have started that off the way I said that. But no, like he drops and shares like really dope upcoming artists. And obviously he works at G. And so really, really dope person, follow him and he gives great tips. K-Von, y'all see his info on the screen or for y'all listening. K-A-Y-V-A-N-M-D. Now about the sauce that he just dropped, though, and getting involved in the music industry for jobs. This is where I start and this is basically what he said, right? Being able to know your skill set and communicate that skill set, regardless of it was a formal job or not. I think a lot of us who are inclined to be in the music industry are tend to be entrepreneurial or self-starter. So we might do some shows that we might work with the artist or two just starting off and it might not feel like it's official. But how do you communicate that and bring that down into a skill set? And that's extremely valuable, right? Extremely valuable to have done that because there's a lot of people that aren't doing that type of stuff. Yeah. All right.  That passion. Everybody is passionate about music, damn near plenty of people who aren't in music that are passionate about music. That's not enough. And a lot of times people try to sell themselves that. But there's a few things that you can do specifically to bring value. And I'm going to base it off of a convo that I had with the VP, the former VP of sales at Bad Boy. He really broke it down to be pretty clear before I get into that detail. I want to get your thoughts to Corey on like the things that cave on to it. Yeah. I mean, the other way I was kind of looking at it, looking at it on top of what you said is being able to communicate value outside of the music stuff that you might have. You know, I think a lot of people tend to forget about those things.  I don't see how that ties into music. But it's on the other side like it might show like that you're a good organization or you know how to run a team or something like that. Right. So that's that's the part that kind of stuck out to most of me is like you said, all those things are how can you kind of build your value and build these skill sets that people kind of just want to see you get. But then like, what are these other things been teaching you that could be valuable over here? Because, you know, what's one of the things we always talk about with music is they're more than glad to pull people from other industries because a lot of times a lot of these music businesses don't have, you know, some of the most like serious infrastructure that some other industries have, right? And so you might be looking at like, oh, man, they would never want to be. All I did was work in like sales at this insurance company. I'm like, no, no, no, you know what I'm saying? We've never had a formal sales structure before. We would love to have some money from that world come over and teach us how to set it up, you know what I'm saying? So yeah, man, don't don't knock these these non music skills that you're building, you know what I'm saying? Like people are looking for them. Hey, speaking of, right? Sales, you already mentioned sales. Y'all hit us up if y'all are already doing formal sales jobs. 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So the faster you apply, the better your chance of getting accepted. Brandmannetwork.com, check it out, back to the video. Again, back to, it has to be more than passion. Now, the conversation I had, Sean Prez with him, he broke it down to me like this. And it's very simple, it makes the most sense in the world. Literally just showing progress in working with an artist, for instance, is enough.  Just say, oh, I worked with an artist and did some PR for them. And I took them from 1,000 streams to 1,500 streams. And to be able to say, I took them from 1,000 followers to 1,200 followers over three months and break down your process, exactly what you did to be able to show that is actually more than most people who would just come in and say, hey, I'm passionate about the industry, right? And I'm creative. That's like a prerequisite. We assume that you like music and that you have some inclination or attractiveness to creativity. We get that. Yeah, we know you're here for a reason. Yeah, that's the core of it all. But saying that I've taken an artist from here to here or saying I put on a show and got this many people out, no matter how big the number is or how small the number is, hey, I'm this super creative guy and I do fashion. Well, and I want to be a creative director. Well, show us some pictures of some people that you've dressed up or at least your outfits and show you a taste or show that you've done graphic design work, right?  And I like his editing skills and I can do these editing skills on your music video. Right? If you have a hard example, it puts you far above most within the music industry. And we love to see some example of skills because it's also an industry where so many people can talk and talk and talk. You know, you don't want to get finesse where you got somebody that you have to train on everything. Nobody wants to do that in any industry anywhere if they don't have to, but in music where things move fast and a lot of people don't have strong infrastructures, they really can't afford to have somebody waste in their time and teach them from ground up and everybody likes to come with, oh yeah, I'm passionate, I'm gonna give you all my time, just teach me. And you understand, like college charges you money to teach you. Right?  What value are you giving me? Yeah. You know?  And you're looking at this person, you're like, okay, well, you put together this show, yeah, it only brought out 50 people, but you've shown and you have baseline competence and this type of organization and these skill sets. Practice. All right, cool, yeah, maybe I'll bring you in. I can see you being much stronger in this position in a year or two, right? So I do think a lot of it happens, you know what I'm saying? Like we tend to think about organizational AR from like the creative aspect, right? The RSI, but I don't think enough people think about like the backend aspect of it, like you're looking at employees almost kind of the same way, right? So yeah, like you're always gonna want to take the person that has proof of concept and has shown you, I can put this thing together, even if it doesn't like hit like crazy, you know?  Cause I know like, especially in Atlanta, you see like a lot of like local curators putting on shows and things and they'll be sick, you know, only got 50 people out. But like you said, bro, how many people are even putting the work together to bring out that amount of people? I know you're gonna do work. Yeah. We, I know people are at least willing to do work half the time like instead of just wait for me to tell you to do every little bit of the task, you are way far ahead and you can pay us into what you might think you are. Yeah, I understand. Yeah. So one more thing that actually made me think about is you mentioned the curators, right? It's a talent for A&Ring, right? That you have a taste in music, so you're showing that you have taste.  You know, today we talk about, hey, people don't wanna assign artists unless they've shown that they got a fan base, unless they've built some momentum. Why? Cause they don't wanna have to go through all this expensive process of training or finding your fan base going and then putting money into it and helping you get some progress and possibly being a bad product. Quote unquote, right? Yeah, bad, hurry or hire. It's the same thing, right? Got that with the artists. I could train somebody for three months and they not be a good hire. And no one wants to spend that time. And there's too many people that come in, just like the artists, we talk about artists feeling entitled and thinking their industry should give them things. There's people on the job and skill side that come in thinking about, well, what are you gonna do for me as a company? You owe me X, Y, and Z before you have an established skill set that has true market value, right?  You know what I mean? Not the value that you have in yourself from talking to yourself in the mirror. We have this culture and community today where we focus so much on people only having ownership, stepping up and not being afraid and knowing their self value and self worth that is going a little bit too far on the other side of the spectrum where people are out of whack on understanding. You got to also show improved, right? Starting out in the industry. If you're going from one really applicable job and you're getting paid a certain market rate and you're killing it, you have systems, you don't need training, you're not raw, then you probably can demand a certain amount of things and you probably have multiple opportunities coming right at you. If you're not in that position, then look for the opportunity, not the immediate payoff, because I can be associated with this company, associated with this artist and then I can flip the fact that I worked with this artist and done these two, three things to build out my portfolio and I'm more competitive, right? So there's a lot of different ways to look at the marketplace and I know a lot of artists, y'all are interested in working in music because y'all might be like, look, if I don't win as an artist, at least I could be around something I love, right? At least I can touch it. Yeah, at least I can touch it. Be around the energy, be in a better space, work on something that I actually do care about or you're like, shoot, I'm still trying to work my dream, but at least I can be in the space and not hate my job while I try to be an artist and be in a job that teaches me stuff from different perspectives that I'm gonna apply to my own artistry. It all works, but you have to keep these same things in mind just as somebody who wants to be a, you know, regular professional in music does as well. Yeah, man, it was well said. It was well said, man. Well, it was well said. We don't even need to go deeper into the topic.


I've never been that big of a DnD guy, which is why I've always shied away from games like Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Eye of the Beholder. It's a first-person dungeon crawler, originally developed by Westwood for DOS back in 1991, before it was ported to Amiga, Sega CD, and later to the Super Nintendo by none other than Capcom in May 1994. So yeah, this is yet another port of a game that's best played on PC, and those This can go either way. Some of them are great, like SimCity, but more than a few are, uh, not so great, like Drakken or Lagoon. But you can safely put Eye of the Beholder in the plus category. The original PC game got rave reviews at the time thanks to a streamlined interface that's easy to use and an emphasis on puzzle solving more than combat. And since Capcom were the ones to port this to the Super Nintendo, that gave this game the polish it needed to work well on a home console. And because of that, Eye of the Beholder is a solid playthrough, even today. The story has you start in the city of Waterdeep, where the lords of the city hire a team of heroes to investigate some evil on-going underground beneath the city and eventually you run into dwarves, dark elves, monsters, you know, all the usual D&D stuff. But the name of the game here is setting up and managing your party. You choose four heroes with six races to choose from. Human, elf, half elf, dwarf, gnome, and halfling. After which you select from six classes, fighter, ranger, paladin, cleric, mage, and thief. In addition to that, you select each character's alignment, from lawful, neutral, and chaotic. Then of course you roll for each character's stats, and you're on your way. For a first person dungeon crawler on a home console, Eye of the Beholder has a surprisingly brisk pace, and it has an easy to use interface. You move along using the arrows, you manage your health and food by shoving items into your face and plopping food onto a plate. You manage weapons and armor by just pressing the X button and moving stuff around. It's a lot like Dungeon Master, which I looked at a few weeks ago. That's another decent SNES port of a PC game like this, but Eye of the Beholder cuts a slightly quicker pace, and to me that makes all the difference in the world. Navigation is quick and intuitive. Items, switches, and notches on walls are easy to see, and the mazes themselves aren't long for the sake of being long, or at least they're not as bad as they are in other games like this. But best of all, this game is compatible with the Super Nintendo mouse, so you can either go old school with the original mouse, or you can use one from Hyperkin, or your PC mouse, if you play on a desktop on an emulator. Like I said earlier, another thing that makes Eye of the Beholder stand out is that it's a bit more puzzle heavy. There's plenty of combat here, but if you give this one a play through, what you're gonna end up remembering the most about this one is the puzzles. Like, for example, to unlock this system of portals that allow you to warp around to each dungeon, you have to explore and find items and figure out how they apply to each portal, like this one here. I gotta figure out if anything I've collected so far works in these slots. This is a really simple example early on in the game, but I don't like to spoil puzzles like this, so I'll just say they do get a bit more in-depth than this, and it can be pretty fun and pretty dang frustrating, not gonna lie. I should also mention that no, there's no map in this game, but I managed to get along just fine, the mazes aren't too ridiculous, and the fact that navigating is so fast compared to other games like this, it ends up just not being a big deal at all. Since it's a D&D game, then it should go without saying that all the typical race, class, and alignment stuff is here. Fighters can use any type of weapon or armor, but can't cast any spells. Mages are powerful range fighters, but can't wear any type of armor because it interferes with their magic. All that kind of stuff is here in detail in the 60-page instruction manual, which really functions more as a guide than anything. Seriously, if you want to play this one today, just Google Eye of the Beholder PDF, and you should find a manual. Granted, everything as it exists in the game is still pretty limited compared to what you'll find in a PC game, but there's a surprising amount of options presented here in the manual, going over details about everything from ability scores, armor classes, spell directions, and stats, on and on. You gotta love seeing that kind of effort in a manual, and it really adds a lot to the game. I should mention an interesting bit of trivia. The Super Nintendo port of the game has music, while the original PC game does not. The Sega CD port also has music, and some of the funniest voice acting you'll hear in any game. I thought that I'd met my death at the blade of that drow. In battle, our king was grievously wounded, and the young prince kidnapped. I tried to stop the drow, but alas, I was overcome. Oh gosh, I'm just so put out by these drows. I mean, jeez, Louise. Eye of the Beholder also has two sequels made for PC around this same time frame, so if you dig this game, you'll want to check those out as well. And there's also a Game Boy Advance port that came later, but it's really stripped down and really slow, so it's missing a lot of what made the original worth playing. So yeah, Eye of the Beholder is more than just track three on Injustice for All and one of the most kick-ass riffs ever. It's also a pretty good port of a PC game on Super Nintendo. Its user interface is player-friendly, battles don't drag on for too long, there's plenty of depth in each character type, there's NPCs you occasionally run into, there's hidden rooms, there's traps, and best of all, you can save the game any time you'd like. I'll add a caveat to that praise, though, the same thing I said about Dungeon Master, and that's that if you do not dig games like this, then I don't think Eye of the Beholder is gonna win you over. It's good, but it's not that good. But yeah, if you're looking for a solid dungeon crawler with a Dungeons & Dragons flavor that takes about 10 or 12 hours to finish, then you should check this one out. All right, I wanna thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


UPS driver sends mom photo. She sees it and runs outside. It was a cold November day in Indiana when Jordan Weaver was making his rounds. He was a UPS driver but this shift would turn out to be nothing like any other shift. When Weaver made a stop to drop off a parcel in a residential area, he noticed something that stopped him dead in his tracks. He felt his blood turned to ice at the horrifying site. Weaver was still a relatively new employee at UPS as he had only been working with them for about 10 months when the incident occurred. Weaver had also completed a multi-week long driver safety program. Due to this, Weaver was particularly alert, but nothing could have prepared him for what this particular day had planned for him. It's fortunate that Weaver was so alert, however, or this story might have had a much more tragic ending. When Weaver stopped on his routine delivery in Elkhart, Indiana, he parked his car on the main road. He parked opposite his next delivery, took the parcel from his truck, and delivered it without any hassle. But as Weaver climbed back into his van, he noticed something strange. He was looking at a pile of leaves that was spilling onto the sidewalk when he noticed something rustling underneath. At first, he didn't think much of it, assuming that there must be a squirrel under the pile of leaves. But when a shape began to emerge, things took a shocking turn. Before explaining what Weaver found that day, bear in mind that Weaver's encounter was by no means the only one of its kind. While doing their rounds, UPS drivers get to know the neighborhood and the people on their route. Weaver isn't the only driver to have found himself in an unexpected situation while on the job. Delivery drivers, understandably, spend a lot of time traveling the local roads. This not only means that they get to know them very well, but they also come across some strange and unusual sights sometimes.  One such driver was Byron Nash. He had no idea that he would prevent a tragedy while delivering a parcel in Louisiana. Byron Nash is a FedEx driver. When he was working in October 2018, he was driving through Lake Charleston, Louisiana, before making a normal delivery at a house. And what he saw there said to chill down his spine and sparked outrage on social media. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Nash took the package from his truck, made sure he was at the right address, and was about to make the delivery when something caught his eye. There was something on the road next to his truck.  There, next to his truck, was a baby. It had crawled out of the house he was about to make a delivery to, and it ended up in the road, right next to the wheels of Nash's truck. Nash knew that he had to document what happened next, so he took out his phone and started recording. Afterward, he would decide to share the shocking video on Facebook. The first thing we see when the video starts is the baby itself.  On the video, you can hear Nash say, Look at what I've seen when I got out my work truck. This baby is right under my tires, and her parents are nowhere to be found. Look at this. He pans the video around, eventually focusing on a house with a wide open garage door. He makes sure that the baby is alone, and then films the baby crawling toward him. Nash is clearly startled when he notices this, as you can hear him say, Hey, before kneeling down next to the bewildered baby. Where was the mother?  He picks up the parcel as well, and goes to the house he suspects might house the baby's parents. With nobody in sight, he calls out to them to let them know he's there before walking into the garage. His heart pounds in his chest for a few awful minutes before he sees her. A woman calls out from inside and comes out to Nash. He wastes no time in chastising the woman. Hey, this baby was under my truck. I didn't even see her until I saw the dog, and I got out and I saw her under the tire. The woman is noticeably shocked and recognizing the baby, shouting, Oh, honey. With the baby safely back with its mother, Nash delivers the parcel. The mother is both relieved and angry as she scolds the baby, saying, Girl, come on now. We had her trapped. Clearly she didn't have the child trapped. Nash admits that the discovery terrified him. What would have happened if he hadn't been there? Hey, it would have scared me too. The woman responds. I'm so sorry. Nash reminds her of how different the situation could have ended and how close they came to disaster. Nash is relieved as he admits, I'm glad I was paying attention. If I had backed up, the baby would have been out of here and I'd have been in trouble. Nash cautions her that she should ensure that all her doors are closed to make sure that it can't happen again. The shocking video ends as the pair say goodbye and Nash continues with his rounds. But it was only a month later that another delivery driver, Jordan Weaver, shared his own terrifying discovery on social media. When weaver noticed the pile of leaves moving outside a house on his route, he initially didn't think that he was about to see anything out of the ordinary. Suddenly a shape began to appear that made his stomach drop. The pile of leaves was so large that it was spilling out into the road, but passing motorists wouldn't have been able to stop what was really inside. A young boy appeared from underneath the pile of leaves. Weaver later recalled to WSBTTV, I couldn't believe it at first. My heart completely stopped. But as soon as he had composed himself, he knew exactly what to do. He snapped a picture of the boy in the pile of leaves and searched for the phone number of the woman on his delivery sheet. Almost immediately after he had sent the message, a woman came running outside. Turns out, of course, that's her son, Weaver explains. Then he proceeds to give the woman a stern talking to about what could have happened if he hadn't spotted the boy. Then he sent the photo to Theresa Baker, a member of a local UPS safety committee program. Baker in turn posted the picture on Facebook. It wasn't long before the post went viral. It quickly amassed 400,000 shares. Weaver hopes that the picture will be a warning to motorists and parents everywhere. Safety is our top priority at UPS. When one of our drivers saw this child in the leaves, it was a chance to help spread the word to always be watchful on the road, UPS said in a statement. You really have to keep your eyes open, Weaver said.  You have to pay attention to everything around you constantly. It just goes to show how lucky we are that delivery drivers are watching out for our children. If Weaver and Nash hadn't intervened, both of these stories could have ended very differently.


My name is Coral Osborn. I was in the Marine Corps for four years. My M.O.S. was a dog handler. And after I got out, I had, you know, some issues that I needed the DAV to help me with, with filing some claims and they did an excellent job. I don't think I could have done it without them. I really appreciate their help. And they've, they've just been really a source of inspiration for me. And since they had helped me, and I'm on Facebook and some other, you know, social media, I saw that they were doing the 5K fundraiser and I was like, yeah, absolutely. So, Shadow and I, Shadow and I signed up and decided that, you know, we would try to do the 5K. We went down to the river in our town and my husband took some photos and submitted one and we got selected in one best costume. And so we appreciated that. Shadow was in a rescue and he needed a home and he seemed to have the good temperament to be trained.  He's a good dog. Oh, Shadow. Some veterans don't even know that DAV exists or, you know, that they help and they don't ask for anything in return. I do give back to the DAV just because they've helped me so much. But I would like to get the word out because I've seen and heard a lot of veterans say, you know, hey, I need help with this claim. I don't know what to do. How do I do this? And I immediately go to DAV. That's like, go to DAV and they will take it from there. Whatever you can do to help get the word out and I think that's more about, you know, coming together and helping each other as a team.


I'm here in the studio this morning with Minister Ivo Ivanovsky, he's the Minister of Information Society and Administration of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Ivo, welcome. You've been nominated today to serve as chair of the Fifth World Telecommunication Policy Forum, which focuses on internet-related public policy issues. Can you tell us how the chair is selected and what your role will be during the next three days of debate? Good afternoon, Sara. Yes, it's been a great honor to be nominated as chairman of the Fifth World Telecommunication Policy Forum. It is a process where all the member states, by consensus, they select a chair, which chair will have to go through the next three days and work with the working groups, with the member states, with the sector members, in order to accomplish the opinions which are presented to the people at the conference for the next three days. With the working groups, the three working groups, we will try to accomplish where all the opinions are with a consensus achieved at the end of the conference so we can have a successful conference. Those opinions, and I think there are six, that is the output of this forum, isn't it? Correct. The output of the forum are the opinions, which have been pre-selected by an expert group who have been working on this for a long time, with consultations with a lot of sector members, with non-governmental organizations, with all the participants in today's society, the information society that we live in, in order to achieve with opinions which can be brought together on the World Telecommunication Policy Forum. It's a very interesting issue, internet-related public policy. It just generates normally a lot of debate. What do you predict will be the really hot topics around the forum? Do you think we'll see a repeat of the polarized debates that we saw last year in the Wicked Conference in December in Dubai? I do expect that some of that conversation will continue from Dubai to the policy forum in Geneva. The role of the governments who have in the governance of the internet will continue to be a debate among the same countries that carry the same conversation in Dubai. I expect that at the end we will find a mutual language where all the participants will be satisfied within the results in order to bring those opinions with a consensus and carry on with future development of the internet. It's a very open meeting, the WTPF, quite different from the big treaty-making conferences that I too sometimes run. We have official contributions from a lot of different stakeholders and membership that was, as you mentioned, a preparatory informal experts group that was open to any interested party. Why is it important to have such a broad-based discussion? Doesn't that risk getting everything a little unfocused? Well, it does risk, but on the other hand this kind of policies, open policies, forums are very productive because you get to hear everybody's voice. And that is the idea in order to continue the growth of the information telecommunication sectors in order to continue the growth of the internet you have to hear all the parties and that's the only fair way to do it. This openness presents a brand new idea sometimes and also goes back and revises the old systems, the old idea, how they were set up in order to continue with the development of the economies and to continue with broadband penetration. The Broadband Commission for Digital Development has set new goals for countries to achieve by 2020 in order to grow the economies in the countries to have a better health care, to have a better education, to have better telecom sectors. Eva, you're one of the founding members of that Broadband Commission for Digital Development and I think you're one of the most active members as well. Macedonia itself has been extremely proactive in rolling out information technology, Wi-Fi, public access systems. Could you tell us a little bit about what you've been doing and why does your country believe this is so important? It has been a great honor for me personally and for my country, the Republic of Macedonia to be in the beginning of the setup of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development. We are continuing to invest in the information communication sector because we have seen the value of that sector who will help the rest of the sectors with the growth much faster than any other investment that we can do. We are expecting right now in the next few days to have the switch of the analog to digital TV in order to release the digital dividend. The due date for us is June 1, 2013. We are very much prepared for that and at the moment we also carry on with the request for purchase for 4G. We have three mobile operators, they all operate with 3G. Now we expect that hopefully all of them or some of them will carry on and invest in a 4G infrastructure in order for the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia to have a brand new infrastructure much faster than the 3G so they can continue with development of their own personal life and their own family economy in a way. It is indeed actually one of the most connected countries I've ever visited with Wi-Fi available publicly available almost everywhere throughout the country. What will you do with this new digital dividend? What will that be used for? The digital dividend besides the 4G is very much used to continue the improvement that we have done in education and healthcare. We have invested over 5% of our GDP in education and similarly in healthcare in the past few years and we have seen incredible results especially in the education by installing the computers and the laptops for every student where our ratio right now is 1.4 to 1. There have been students who have been using the laptops from 1st to 3rd grade for already 5 years now and we can see a drastic improvement in their skills drastic improvements in their competences and the drastic improvements for their willingness to learn by giving them this kind of tool the modern tool of the 21st century we hope that our students, our citizens who when they grow up will be very much competitive with the rest of the world. Ivo Ebenovsky, very best wishes for the next three days of discussion. We'll come back to you at the end of the forum and thank you for joining us today. Thank you very much.