How's his tailbone, by the way? Did it finally heal? Oh, yeah. Wow. That's your cockaxe. That's still healing. It's got a beard. It's kind of curved still. I think you're going to be stuck with that curve for a while. Look at my first tube of erection. It's a Corbin. Right. And it goes Instagram. It's Instagram. JuicyGoggin. JuicyGoggin. JuicyGoggin. Hey, drinkers. I should count. We built a case for one. Follow us on personal YouTube channels in the description below. Today we're doing a movie review. Please continue. I was going to say the juicy content. If you had been following us on Instagram and Twitter, you would have known about Andrani being here. But if you're finding out for the first time, then you clearly don't care about that extra juicy content we talk about all the time. Nope. But yes, the new Amazon film came out just this weekend, I believe. I believe it was Saturday our time. Sardar Udam had a great trailer. Love that trailer. And it's directed by Sujit Sakhar. I believe it's also... Oh, I thought he produced it as well. He didn't. Sil Kumar produced it as well.  But your main star is Vicky Grishal. He's the star of this film. But it's essentially an Indian revolutionary Udam Singh who's better known for the assassination of Michael O'Dwyer in London, who was behind the, I can't say that word, but the massacre in Amritsar in 1919. So if you haven't watched it, it's on Amazon. Go watch it. Come back. And Rick, your initial thoughts, please. Yeah. Go watch it unless you're certain anything that I know I'll have to say about this that could make your expectations too high. Because this is one of the best and most important films, period. Forget India. What if you're like a Winston Churchill fan? Yeah. Got a lot to say, but when we talked about the trailer being so good. What did you like it? Trailers living up to the height. Rick hated it. I knew it. The trailer was perfect when you consider what happens in this film and what they didn't show us in the trailer. Was really, really smart. I, this is one of, this is going to, this is up there in terms of like for me, someone was telling me, what do you like better? This or Hacksaw Ridge? I'd say that's really hard to come by because they're both about as good. If this was an American film, I'd be jumping up and down and saying this should have multiple Oscar nominations. So are you supporting this for the Oscars? So far of what's, what's been out so far. This is the best film of the year I've seen. Nothing is a second. So this is a close second. So you think if today was the deadline. If today was the deadline. They should send this film. There's nothing else that's even remotely close to as good as this right now. I don't agree on that. I do agree. It's an absolute goddamn amazing film. Yep. So if you haven't already watched it, that's our non-spoiler review. Just go watch it. Yeah. It's extremely important. Very important. And it doesn't, we're not giving anything away before we go into the spoilers, but I will say this. Obviously it says in the description of it, and it's known from the trailer as well, it's going to cover the massacre of April 13th. The only other depiction I've seen on that on film that was memorable to me, and it was prior all of this is the way it's depicted in the film Gandhi. Granted, that's a much bigger film in scope. It's telling all of Gandhi's life. Yeah. So it takes a much smaller place than it does here. And because of that, it doesn't get anywhere near the attention it deserves or the graphic attention it deserves like this one does. This one, in my opinion, does it justice? Yeah. So spoilers should be coming out. Yeah, yeah. Once again, that's our spoiler. It's incredible. That's our spoiler review. That's all you need to know. I don't have a ton of gripes with it. There's a few that I'll mention, but that's, it's really few. It's 99% great. Like, for example, when Darkest Hour came up, Gary Oldman got the Oscar as he deserved, because that's what that movie is really about. It's about his performance, but it was the talk of award season as well. And Hacksaw got six nominations. But I think this film is way better than Darkest Hour. Oh, 1,000%. Way better than Darkest Hour. Yeah. But anyways, so let's... I don't even know what to start with this film because... Did you watch it with Andrani? No. No, she didn't. She didn't watch it. I was wondering... Because we have a different perspective, obviously.  None of us would be new to her. She would just be able to tell if the execution did justice. Yeah. We came in with, obviously, in America. The only thing, very sadly, when we were in Amaritsar, the alley that this happened in was closed. It was closed that day. Because we were going to go into it and just experience it in a pair of specs and all that kind of stuff. But I don't know what they were doing. Restoration, whatever. So we got to stand at the gate and look in. Get to stand at the gate. But yeah, so that's basically the knowledge we had of it. What we were told then, right? Yeah. And my having... Well... Really dark. It just did. And we had been told early in the channel when we had seen some things. And I don't even remember when the first one was where we had seen something about the massacre. And obviously, like I said, I had known about this massacre from when I had seen Gandhi. But I didn't know all of the surrounding story about it. Nor, you know, and coming into this, it really does help. It's not a prerequisite by any stretch, but it does help if you have some understanding about the history of India and partition and what was going on at the time. And yeah, Corbin did a story and a tweet about Winston Churchill. Here in America, he has been lauded as one of the greatest guys ever in Western society. In Britain. And in Britain. Yeah. And thankfully in the credits they mentioned this because it needs to be remembered that four million people died because of a man-made famine created by him. And he was a racist on top of that. Yes, he was. Like hardcore. It's bad when you actually dig in. We weren't taught. And also, if you didn't know in World War II what we, the Americans, did in collaboration with Winston Churchill by bombing Dresden, Germany, which had no military presence. It was all civilians. And it was specifically targeted in the exact same way they were specifically targeted. You know what else this is causing you to rethink? Because I've had a lot of stupid babies talk to me about this and say, you need to really re-look at the necessity of and the barbarism of our two nuclear bombs. Oh, no, those were all terrible. And whether that was an act of war or if that was an act of the obliteration of civil rights and not all things are fair in love and war. It's where we have war crimes. And watching this film 100% of war crimes. Caused me to go back and reassess and go, you know what? Yeah. That shouldn't happen. Most should. Just like that shouldn't happen. I see this and Hiroshima and Nagasaki now as being comparable in terms of human travesties that civilians should have never had to have experienced. One more thing I don't want to actually get into the view. Sorry, this just stirs up a lot of emotion. Yeah. As it should. It should. That's what I think the great film does. Yeah. Most of what we're taught is everywhere, I think, does this. Indian schools will do this. They'll skew their history to obviously do that. Whoever's ruling teaches the history. English. Yep. But I'm only speaking as an American and what you're taught, it's laughable. It's basically footnotes that they want you to know. It's why it's the same. It's what we were taught. We were taught growing up that the Native Americans were savages here. And that everything that was done to them was either by disease or justifiable. A annihilation of a people. You want to talk about somebody that would look evil, a ton of American presidents for what they did to millions upon millions upon millions of Native Americans. Yeah. I would like a film about that. Well. Anyways, let's get on with the review. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. But this is what this kind of film's supposed to do. Oh gosh. I still don't know where to start. It's the creme de la creme of this film is the last 45 minutes, I think, as you guys know. That's so funny. Yeah. Right when I texted you. Yeah. He was like, we're going to do something early today, a Skype reaction. And he was like. He said, when are you available? And he's like, I'm almost 45 minutes done with Udan. So I'm like, oh, yeah, go finish that. Do not stop. Do not stop there. I literally, when you texted me, it was just about to start. Yeah. That might be one of the best cinematic periods in a film, especially from India, that we've seen. Without question from India. Especially is one of the best gruesome. Yes. War. Like that's what you want. That's what you get from like great war films. Yes. Or Chandler's List. Yes. Something that is horrific. Yes. That happens and they do not pull the punches. No. So spoilers. And go watch it. As you shouldn't twist this. Yeah. You need to be, because obviously the real thing was a thousand percent worse than what we got. But they did a phenomenal job at making you extremely uncomfortable. Yeah. And showing the gruesome, barbaric, demonic, whatever, evil stuff that literally happened at this place. And it was from the cinematography to the VFX. Yep. Makeup. Thank you. I don't know if it was Amazon that gave you the money, but thank you for spending the money and making it how it is. That's one of been our biggest gripes with like, because obviously we know Indian films don't usually spend what American films do. Right. On films. It's needed to show this. This story. Especially a story like this. The makers who made this cared at every level. And yes, Amazon, thank you for putting as much money into this as you did because it was needed at every level. You could tell in the cinematography. Just like when we watched the trailer. There were multiple times in this where I just shook my head and went, wow. Because I was so thankful for the production team, for the art direction, for the cinematography. Yep. Costuming all of the props and sets. For the white people. Yeah, you hired great white actors. For the most part. There was only a few that were a little, but the leads were all solid. Yeah, they were, it was so refreshing. But back to the violence. Back to the violence. I just wanted to mention that. I know you guys waiting for that. This was one of those things where you kind of want to turn your eye away because it gets so graphic and you know it's a true story. Shoot the handle. Oh yeah. That was gruesome, but incredible. Needed. Incredible. Watching little children getting shot and their heads blown apart.  My favorite cinematic moment that sums up this film. I wanted to screenshot it and you could turn it into a secondary movie poster. Is the moment when he is in there that night and he finds the little girl. And he says, mother. And she comes to him and he's breaking down. And as he's crying, she hugs him to comfort him. And it's just him down there and her holding him. All of the dead bodies. That massacre sequence was on par at every level and impacted me cinematically and will be burned in my memory the way Hacksaw Ridge was. And in the way that the opening of D-Day is. Saved by Ryan. This is that. This is a masterpiece. For me, I use, I don't use that word because so many people use it. It's like, well with the masterpiece. This was a cinematic masterpiece as far as I'm concerned. To tell this story. Yeah, I totally. And that's why I don't know where to start. Because we just got it. We haven't talked about Vicki. We haven't talked about the direction. But man. And the score. The score behind it. Gorgeous. The just, that whole sequence was so incredible. And so well done. It was perfect. No continuity errors. Perfect. It was just, it brought out the emotion that you want in something. Because you knew it was coming. Obviously. Maybe if we were earlier on in our inner track, we wouldn't know that was coming. Well, that's my hope. And I really want a lot of people to see this. Americans that don't know the story at all. I was thinking about this and thinking I want, I want to watch this with the kids. I want to watch this with my mom. And I'm hoping they don't even know. I'm not even going to say anything to them. Yeah. And when it happens, I want them to, I'm hoping they don't know. And that they're shocked. Flabbergasted, disgusted as they should be.  But those, anybody who knows about Roman crucifixion knows that what he also said is true. He said, well, you know, because some people said, wasn't it a tuotis? And he said, well, if you know anything about Roman crucifixion, I held back. Yeah. And that's the, that's what they did here. But they showed us enough to merit the heinousness of what this act was.  I don't, I wouldn't have been anything like this. Yeah. And so I'm glad we have the OTT platform. Hallelujah. And go around that. But man, because everything from the, from the opening shot of this film to the very end, this cinematography by, say his name. Yes. And forgive us for any mispronunciations. Avik Mukhopadhyay was, I, I haven't seen obviously a lot of the award films for the Oscars this year, because they're, they're not out yet, right? Just starting now. I spent, and the ones I have seen in India, this, I don't know what's beating this. And I'm not talking foreign film. I'm talking like regular cinematography. No, I would, I can tell you right now, the Oscar nominations this would get, if this was released here as a, just an American film with big name American actors. VFX. It would get visual effects. It would get direction. It would get pictures. It would get sound. Sound. It would get production design, costuming. It would get makeup. It would get acting for Vicky Kashal. And it would get screenplay. It would get at least nine Oscar nominations, I believe. I 100% agree. As an American film. Yeah. Because everything, what score did you give this? It's on my all time list. Yeah. Okay. So yeah. It's way over 100. Yeah. Because the importance level sends it off the charts and there's nothing in it that doesn't get an over 95 for me in terms of its score. Some of the smaller white acting roles got B pluses because they just were what they were. Yeah. But who cares? Yeah. At that point. That's the only flaw, if you want to call it that. The way, sorry, I don't know. Surjit, right? Oh my. Is that how you say his name? Yeah, it's Surjit. Surjit Sarkar. Cool. We've seen in a couple of his films. Now, he did Pink and Peku. I don't know if he directed Pink. I think he produced it. I think you're right. He directed Peku. He was involved with Pink. But he also did Galabo Satabo, which even though we thought that film was kind of boring, there was nothing wrong with the film making part of it. I think that's what we said, right? We did. Like it was like, the acting was great, the cinematography was beautiful, but it was just like we were bored. Right. This is, and I'm about to give you, sir, the highest compliment I can give you because my favorite director of all time, for me, who I believe has full mastery of the theatrical experience in terms of storytelling, evoke an emotion without placating to emotional ploys, and understands historical pieces and getting the history right. This was on level with if Steven Spielberg had been asked to tell the story. I think this is on the same level as any historical piece that Spielberg would put together. We already knew he could direct actors. But a film on this scope, and can we just talk for a second as well? The way they told the story. Oh, yeah, that's what was going to piece together, right? Every single aspect we needed to know how they revealed it, when they revealed it. Is, for me, the even highest level of mastery is the script. When I was in about 45 minutes in, I turned to Stef and I was like, this is so interesting how they're doing this. How they're telling the story. Normally, with the story, you might start in the present and then you'll go back and then you'll catch up, usually. That's usually how it goes, right? Yeah. They'll do something like that. He did not care. He was like, I'm going to kind of piece this together. It's like you're intelligent enough to kind of Exactly. Kind of keep up with what you're doing here. I don't need to tell you this was three years ago. I liked that you started off, especially from somebody who does not know what the end result is. It showed your lead is an assassin. Right.  Right. Why, that's not okay. Right. Why are you just going and killing? That's not the way to resolve things. And obviously you, as Indians, probably knew way before. Of course. And I figured that's what was going to happen. But if you know nothing about it, you're like, this is the way it should be told. Wait, he just assassinated somebody. Why did he do that? Turns out this man's basically evil. And that for me is a really important thing. And why I'm so happy to see so many Brits involved with this. And why, you know, this weekend, I like the Halloween franchise, but Rich went and saw Androni and I, we're going to go see it with him, but we didn't have time to get out. We didn't have time to go see the new Hollywood film. He said it is pure just, it's just one of the worst films ever. Oh God. So bad. But it got, it had a great weekend in the box office. We live in a world where people would rather sniff farts than sip cognac, it seems. Because this is the cognac. And more money and attention should have gone to this this weekend than the Halloween drill. Totally agree. And the thing that I find most intriguing about this is because this didn't just give me insight to this event. This is a really important film to show to anybody in the West to help them have a shift in their Western imperialistic mindset and recognize not all things you were told were an act of aggression or an act of terror against you and your allies was wrong. Because you've been taught those things from a perspective that is the victor's narrative. And the victor's narrative will always be slanted to make the victor the hero.  And I thought, okay, and where else have I missed out on those kinds of things? Most things. And I, it is most things because, no, wherever you live. American society in general. And the same way that people outside of America hear things about us that aren't true because they've been told it through a narrative about us being this evil place. So it's brilliant. Yeah, and every family, let's get to Vicky Grifell. I know it's going to be a real long review and I apologize. Yeah, you are. You knew from the fact of the time. You always know whether we like it or not. But did you know who originally was supposed to be the lead in this? No, it was Irfan. Irfan was originally supposed to be the lead in this film. Because this film was, I think, over a decade in the making, I think. And it's, because he's the only one, I would say could pull it off better than Vicky. Yeah, and not even better. I think that's not even the right word. I think somebody would do it different and equally as good. Because even in Vicky, if you have me saying this, what I'm about to say should be as big of a compliment as I intended to be, Irfan wouldn't have surpassed you. He could have equaled you. I don't think anyone would have surpassed you. Yeah, so yeah, he was originally supposed to be it, which obviously would have been incredible, but of course, to wait Irfan may not bless him. Peace, you phenomenal actor. He would have been a beautiful, beautiful. But Vicky, I did every bit as good as Irfan would have done. I keep sleeping on Vicky. Whoa. No, no, no, because like I'll put out my list of like the best actors in India. And he'll, he'll probably, I think he'll normally make it like the top 10. But man, everything we've seen him in, he's been so good and he's very versatile. He is. Incredible, like, what do we, I think we first saw him in Uri, right? That was our first exposure. And I was like, okay, so he's a military guy, right? But no, you'll see Masan. That was right. That's, that's what really showed us this guy's a fast fan. Raman Raghav 2.0. And I think there's one other thing. And then this, this is the Crème de la Crème of Vicky, I feel, what a question. And even though I can't perfectly like pinpoint if his accent was right, but it was so good to me. So good to me. I believed it 100%. And I was paying attention for him to slip, especially when he got emotional in the court. I was, I was listening for two things from him. I was listening for either a slip in the accent or a greater mastery of English than this character has because Vicky can speak English well. Of course. And he never slipped. Yeah. He never slipped. And yeah, I mean, I can't pray. I think he had one moment that I was almost a header monologue that when he was talking to the drunk man, I, the header went exactly through my mind. I was like, this is a great scene. Well written scene. He did it perfectly. He showed and from his transition from the beginning, he didn't talk, I think, for a long time in the beginning. It was almost like a, but you felt for him a lot of times. And then I, at the end, it was, that's a hard thing to, because it's not a lot of dialogue there in the last 45 minutes. Yeah.  And depending on how they filmed that sequentially, very, very difficult for an actor, especially if they did. And my suspicion is a lot of it was out of sequence because he, they had to have done things based on the number of people that had available.  They had to do all of the scenes with the people's bodies first, which meant it was filmed out of sequence, which meant Vicki had to have already pre-planned through his script and through the shooting schedule where he was going to be without prejudging, without preparing. That's fricking crazy difficult as an actor to keep your character on that arc he's supposed to go through and film it out of sequence in something this tragic and traumatic for you. It's about as difficult an acting job as anybody can have with no lines. And at the end, yeah, hardly any dialogue. Unbelievable. But obviously, it's one of the greatest pieces of cinema, especially that last 45 minutes, is just something that everybody involved with that should be extremely proud. It doesn't get better than that. It's going to be hard for you to get better than that. I thought, yeah, him at the end, and even though at the end, I would have liked the shots flipped. Which ones? Well, when he was at the Golden Temple shot, which I loved, I thought that was amazing. Yeah, I thought it was great. I would like that, because I wanted the last shot to be the pull-up with the bodies. With the bodies. I agree. I thought that was a stronger shot. It was a stronger shot. I liked, I loved him in the Golden Temple and bathing, because I thought that was a lot of symbolism there, great acting by him. But I think I would, for that, and then pull-up on the people. I mean, who's, who am I to judge? Right, exactly. But that's just, that's who. You know what, I like, I like, because the pull-up was with him there. And I think, I think I like that choice, because it takes back, it takes us back to the importance of this being the, the Punjabi experience. And we got told when we were at the Golden Temple, how important it is for Six to, to bathe in the Golden Temple. And we saw men and women bathing in that. What that means, especially at that time with what he just went through, and the acting performance he gave, in those, what, the minute that scene was. And it just occurred to me, which I could forget, and I don't want to. If we could somehow, in the next six months, get a groundswell and use this film as part of it, and got a petition or something, Boris Johnson needs to come to Amritsar on April 13th of 2022. And he needs to go into that walled area. And he needs to kneel. And he needs to officially apologize for what happened. Should he? Yes, will he? No. There needs to be a petition, and it needs to be a groundswell that's done from people who are British citizens. And it's way overdue. And it needs to be done. And it needs to be done that way. And anything less than that is insincere and not respectful of the thousands of innocents that were massacred there for no reason. Yep. I totally agree. A couple of the points I wanted to get to here, because everything was so good. This is going to be a real long review. The set design, of course, is absolutely incredible.  Because these sets, because I'm pretty sure few of them were probably sets they built. But I think a lot of them were location. They filmed on location, do you think? Especially the stuff I guarantee. And I'm having a thought right now, based on what you're saying, and it's true. I would say if I'm talking to a Westerner who loves film, and they said, what should I watch? What Indian film should I watch to really show me that they don't just do Bollywood stuff? That. Yeah. And it's going because it's so top-level in set design, costume design, score, acting, story. I think you used it on a last award. Would you say it's the shatter? Like, you kept saying something for each of your things. It's a groundbreaking film that shatters the... I think you said groundbreaking a lot. Okay. Yeah, I think you said groundbreaking. The quintessential, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I like quintessential. But like, everything about it feels Hollywood, in terms of the quality. The quality, in terms of money put in. It looks... Detailed. Money was spent. Yeah. It's essentially what I... The number... When you see a scene that should have a lot of people there, and it's heavily populated with people, you know that was a lot of time and money to costume those people, get that background people. When you do a massacre of thousands, but it's shot small to make you feel like you're intimate, but you know they did it because they couldn't get that many people there. Well, when the director says you want to know what and pulls back and you see a few thousand people, you're like, oh, epic film and epic budget. So then they're not going to have the jarring of like, this doesn't feel like something familiar, right? And so that's great. So I thought the production team, and of course, once again, the cinematographer, the editing, everything. The store, I thought was beautiful and assisted the film. Beautiful. And also didn't have it for a few times. Let you sit in the moment, which is something I feel like with stuff like Schindler's List or Haxall or whatever these things that are supposed to make you feel. Sometimes no score is better because you have to sit in what you're feeling. Yes. In some time, obviously the score is great. And this whole, you said it earlier, this entire team, anyone casting directors, costuming, craft services, man. Not kidding. If you were involved in this film, you should be proud that you contributed to this collaborative effort of what is absolutely as good as movie making gets. The nitpicks I would have in this would be, I would have changed those scenes to the end, but screw me in for doing that, right? Just a few wide actors. A few wide actors. Showed their evil faces. But it was few and far between. I was thought to see a wide actor get assassinated. It was nice. It was nice. It was nice. And then I think you probably could have edited maybe about 15, 20 minutes to make a little more crisp. That's fine. But other than that, that's really all I have. I wouldn't have changed the frame. I thought it was great. And I would not have an issue sending this to the Oscars. I would be fairly excited. I can make arguments for this and I can make arguments for the Great Indian Kitchen. Those are the two that I am currently okay with sending to the Oscars this year for very different reasons, for different films, as we know. This one would give somebody like, whoa, India is making this grand scope of a film. And obviously, they both have the important factor. It is because they have the important factor and the great thing about Great Indian Kitchen, we've talked about it in that review, was it would show people that Indian cinema actually has really incredible artists doing thespianatic work that's Oscar level. Telling important stories. Telling important stories on an intimate level that are putting a mirror up to their own country. Then you have this that's doing everything we just said. So if either one made it, I'll tell you this, if it's not either one of those, we're going to be really angry. I mean, if it's Mimi, it's a great film. Great film, but come on. No, don't send Mimi, please. Watch Mimi if you're an American. Fun film. But no, the only two that currently, obviously we have what, two or three months left in the year. We've got some time left. But this is the only two films I'm currently okay with, even though there's films like Joji and another Fa Fa ones that have come out this year. Beautiful. That are great films. Beautiful films, yeah. The two best currently are this one. Great. And Great Indian Kitchen. And I don't know, even though this is the long review, I still feel like we haven't said enough about this film. And that's how good it is. Yep. Just you can talk about it a long, long time. And most especially. That's what great cinema does, yeah. Yeah, you can talk about the importance. And they got the history right. Because I said that before, my concern was, are we telling a historical thing? And are you going to revise it? How much? And they didn't. No. I looked it up. They didn't. There was no songs. There was no dance numbers, obviously. I would have probably been pretty upset if something like that happened. Can't overstate the just perfection of how they told the story. Little things like when we finally learned some things about him, rather than it be backstory that we took 35 minutes to learn about his life, it was the British guys interrogating him and he's telling him, OK, here's what we know thus far. He did this and worked in a mill and then we show him working in there for a few seconds. And then he did this and we showed this real quickly, like, oh, so here's the backstory. Cool, we're getting that now. Just brilliant. Yeah. And at the end, I said it on Twitter, I want a film as gruesome as this, but told about either the great, the Churchill made the famine, the famine in Gaul and Flash or The Partition. Both deserve Schindler's List style. They deserve this. This style of not. And I know there's been some that have been made, a bunch of films that have been made about The Partition, but I want one that depicts the gruesome, horrific, like almost the blood. Like I want everything that's had in the last 45 minutes maybe times 10 even. And I know it's a hard watch for people to sit through and it's not as engaging and entertaining and fun as like Squid Games, right? Yeah. But Squid Games is going to make a billion dollars. They're just like, or they're projecting 800 million from now. And that's wonderful.  This is the kind of film that needs to be shared. More people should watch it. Amazon should be rewarded for what they did in investing in this because the more money this, this is where box office matters because when the box office goes, not 50 million dollars to Schlock that I trust from somebody else who saw the Halloween kills films, but goes to this film that Amazon's going to look and go, okay, we need to make more films like that. And people are going to hire Shoojit for more directing of films like this. And Vicki's going to get more scripts like this. And we'll see more things in pre-production like this. Yep. So go share this with everybody. I hope you stick around. 45 minutes, I guess? I don't know. We'll see. I guess in 37 minutes is the final time on this. Let us know what you thought about this film.


Both Russian and Ukraine refused to negotiate. Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that he sees no point in signing any agreements with Kiev, since it is highly likely that Ukraine's next leader will annul them. Medvedev drew attention to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's statements that he was not inclined to hold any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It's not news, but there is a nuance he opted not to mention, although he is quite aware of it. He is not supposed to hold any talks, he is supposed to sign what he is told to sign, although frankly speaking, this document will not be worth its weight in paper. You can remember the Minsk agreements that were signed by his predecessor? Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel. Dmitry Kuliba, Ukraine's foreign minister, has also said that Ukraine is not being pushed to negotiate with Russia as it had been at the beginning of the war. Kuliba in a briefing during the Munich Security Conference told none of the major countries, tell us what we need to talk to Putin. As they see that Putin is doing and realize there is no point. Ukraine has managed to achieve an important goal. At the beginning of the war, even our friends said that Russia should not win this war, so we worked very hard to change this rhetoric. And so the world has started saying that Ukraine should win this war. They started to talk about and build their policy on it, the minister explained.


Hey everybody welcome back to the channel. Today we're going to go over my anime Blu-ray shelf and give you my yearly update to the collection. Let's do it. So the shelf pretty much looks the same as you can see here. Also excuse the audio. I'm literally just using my phone instead of the voiceover microphone equipment that I use. So yeah it's mostly the same. I do have a K-Lag shelf with some of the Studio Ghibli movies and standalone anime films. I've done Blu-ray anime collection updates for a while now I think since 2018 and well it's mostly the same. Specifically this year not a lot changed and you'll see that I'm trying to film something different because otherwise I would just be highlighting the same exact thing from 2022. So for this video what I'm going to be focusing on are the titles that I got in the year of 2023 which unfortunately were not a lot because I pivoted the channel heavily towards manga content and I've just been doing the seasonal anime reviews. So all the anime that I watch from the seasonal stuff I enjoy but most of them I don't feel the need to own physically. Some I do. Some I do not but who knows maybe by 2024 we'll see a much different scenario if I go crazy and start getting all these releases that I missed from this year and previous years as well. So the first one that we're going to talk about is Call of the Night. One of my favorite shows from 2022. I love this anime so much. I liked it so much that I went ahead and started reading and picking up the manga as well. Kotoyama suddenly turned into one of my favorite manga. I love his distinct art style. I like the story here. It's sort of a coming-of-age vampire horror story as you have this kid going through puberty and wonderlust if you will. The visuals on this look amazing. I highly recommend it. The atmosphere and mood of the scenes are spectacular. If you've been following my channel social media and all that stuff you know that I tend to gravitate towards that ambiance of neon drenched scenes and looks and lighting and all that stuff. So this is what attracted me at first for Call of the Night and I was not disappointed. I really love this series. Next one up is Re-QT Honey, the complete OVA collection. I am not a fan of QT Honey but I wanted to own everything from one of my favorite anime directors Hideaki Anno. The animation looks really crisp, nice fan-servicing I guess but it doesn't bother me too much and I guess the main driving force was of course completing the Anno collection if you will. Speaking of Kotoyama we have Dagashi Kashi seasons one and two. Now what's funny about this is that the manga is unavailable and the anime right now you can only watch season two on Crunchyroll. So the only way to watch season one is obviously to get that physical edition which I was happy to do so. But Dagashi Kashi another weird wacky creation very different from Call of the Night this one focusing more on Candy and also sort of a coming-of-age story if you will with the main protagonist but yeah pretty unique series again with striking character designs. I really enjoy that vibe that he's going for. Next up we got Gunbuster again a fantastic emblematic series that I had to have. Kudos to DiscoTep once again for making it happen remastering this thing looking absolutely beautiful on Blu-ray. A true classic of the mech genre that I think everybody should check out. The next one is Idiya Zerum the animation. I love the live action movies and I have to admit I've never actually seen this OVA collection that was released way back in the day so I'm really excited to check it out. The area is a wonderful sci-fi B movie if you will if you like that sort of thing. This was actually one of my most anticipated Blu-ray releases for this year it is Mononoke once again by the folks at DiscoTek I am so happy to own this series. Visually it is one of the best-looking anime of modern times in my honest opinion and if you like yokai Japanese folklore supernatural stuff and creepy stories I think you will be right at home with Mononoke. We got Mushigo Tensei season one part one part two I really enjoy this series I like that they freaking created an animation studio studio bind to make this adaptation because this is a very long-running series very beloved by light novel readers I've heard some negative things about the manga so I've never tried it out and that's why I decided to collect the series in anime form so really happy to own here season one which I thought was phenomenal from G kids we got Evangelion 3.0 plus 1.11 thrice upon a time aka the final rebuild of Evangelion movie this is amazing that we have this it's a little bittersweet because I remember when I picked up the first rebuild of Evangelion movie and the promise of what was to be when we got the second third and now this fourth one and it's been a fantastic ride so far arguably one of the most ambitious movie projects when it comes to anime and the fact that Hideaki Ono was able to rewrite Evangelion and make something new accessible for people while still being confusing dramatic and fantastical as with the original series which was such a an icon for otaku worldwide I think this is my only viz media release but here we have pokemon champions edition the first season of the anime now the FOMO in me wants to start collecting a lot of pokemon on dvd and blu-ray but I got to control myself because I don't really need it I just wanted this set for the nostalgia because this is my gateway into this whole world of anime and manga the first anime that I watched and fully recognize that this is anime was pokemon back in the late 90s when we had the real the original big three which were pokemon sailor moon and dragon ball z I watched all three loved all three and I always regretted not owning the three series in physical media and I've slowly been working towards building that collection where I have all that stuff that I watched from when I was a kid and all the stuff I enjoy now here is ranking of kings season one part one I am missing part two which I've not gotten yet I love this series so much this was one of my favorite series from 2021 to last year 2022 I think this is wood studios best work so far and it is a lovely adaptation that I think stands superior to the original I love the art design I love the character prince boji is a phenomenal character and a role model for kids he is just a fantastic bundle of joy such a wholesome kid and the story just really plays out like a grand european fairy tale with japanese sensibilities and I think they knocked it out of the park adapting the manga so highly recommended if you want to check it out sonic x from discotheque media this is so fantastic I love sonic after pokemon also one of my favorite video game franchises I love the character so much growing up the sonic x series is in my honest opinion the best adaptation of sonic that we've ever had I don't really care for the new movies or any of that stuff but I love sonic x and the japanese version is so great if you're a sonic fan this is a must-own in your collection I don't know if I mentioned this on the previous blu-ray update video but I finally got the heike story or the heike monogatari one of the best shows that I've ever seen I love this I think if you're a fan of japanese history if you're a fan of folklore if you're a fan of samurai based stories I think this is a must-own on your collection it is a phenomenal interpretation of the heike story as we follow the taita clan and their fateful demise through the eyes of this young girl called biwa so if you're wanting something different something that stands out get the heike story easily on my top 20 shows of all time that's how much I care for it that's how much I loved it I highly recommend it we got two more discotheque releases here uruse yatsura we got the first collection and the second one so this would be up to episode 106 volume 3 came out and volume 4 comes out soon after this video so I need to get those to have the full uruse yatsura tv series I don't own the movies so I guess I'll slowly work towards owning those as well because I really enjoy uruse yatsura a fantastic emblematic series from back in the day brought back by the folks at discotheque once again with great image quality and a fantastic physical release here on blu-ray now the dvd section is pretty much the same except for one thing this amazing series that I finally own for the very first time I've seen it a million times but I don't own it and that is tenchimuyo we got the first ova series right here in this pioneer remastered by thx release and the reason for me to go back in 2023 and start collecting dvds is that some of these series unfortunately are not available and I don't think the interest is there for licensors to pick this up again remaster and put out on blu-ray I'm not dissing on tenchimuyo but let's face it it's not going to sell as well as a popular series like say the eventual release of chainsaw man on blu-ray and I know that tenchimuyo did get a funimation blu-ray release but that is horribly out of print and really expensive so I'm perfectly fine owning the dvd versions I think it's a nice nostalgia piece I love tenchimuyo and here is the first set unfortunately the little slip here is sun faded but what are you gonna do follow that by tenchimuyo ryooki the complete series this is the veridian set from funimation another batch of 13 episodes and the fun doesn't stop there I also got the alternate series we got tenchi in tokyo the complete collection this is from genion back in the day all 26 episodes I want to say all in one cool package we also got tenchi universe complete collection also by genion same type of release here everything in one uh giant jewel case and genion also released the movies I was going to grab them individually but then I learned that later on they released this movie collection set of the three films on one jewel case here so this is really cool now these next three items from the tenchi verse are a little expensive they are pretty rare they're out of print I don't know what the proper value is because I've only seen a handful of them being listed on sites like ebay so we got over here you can see it the tenchimuyo special the nihoshi special I should say and magical girl pretty sammy both specials in one dvd set this was pretty expensive at least for my budget but I wanted it and there were only like three listings or actually four I lost a bit on the fourth one and out of the other three this was the cheapest one it was a little bit scratched up but it plays just fine so I'm happy to get that and the reason I wanted it obviously it's part of the tenchi verse but the pretty sammy spinoff was followed by her own uh limited series so we have magical s project pretty sammy debut this is volume one followed by volume two here with uh the subtitle is pixie misa finale I hope I said that right yeah pixie misa so this is a really cool release volume two is easily obtainable this one you're gonna have to fork up a couple bucks together so I am missing uh GXP on dvd followed by the war of geminar I hope I said that correctly that's on blu-ray I need to get that and there's the IE or AI tenchi however you pronounce it that's an anniversary thing I think it was an ONA of just mini episodes that together combine like to make like a 40 minute runtime so with those three I should have everything that was released stateside when it comes to tenchi muyo I know there's more but I think that's everything correct me if I'm wrong tenchi fans and for the final section here of the collection the movie stuff is pretty much the same we got the studio jibbly movies we I put out some of the anime films on dvd over here and you can also see on this next cube we got the anime blu-ray films stuff like deer king project echo the final blu-ray I don't know if I mentioned that on the previous video of my dates are a little bit off in my head but if not well here they are and one cool trick that I learned recently is that if you have egg cartons you can put them on a kalex shelf and they act as a nice little riser so there it is my anime collection update for 2023 thank you everybody for tuning in thank you for all the likes all the comments for subscribing you guys are fantastic I love every single one of you thank you so very much this is a genuine hobby of mine and a passion of watching anime and collecting it on physical media so thank you all so very much god bless stay safe out there I will catch all of you on our next video


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So this is editing Josh, and I just realized that I totally forgot to film a intro for this video, but it's a good one and I address a very important recurring question, so stick around till the end.  So one thing I've been parallel at since, um, moving to LA is actually making the most of my time here and exploring. I live so close to the beach that, to be completely honest, I just, like, never really want to leave. So today we're changing that, and we're actually going down to downtown LA, and we get some cool pics. Now we cross our fingers and hope there's no traffic. Before I head downtown I have to actually head over and pick up a friend, and you definitely know her if you watch the Hawaii vlog. Now that we're back from our trip to downtown LA for the day, I actually wanted to talk a little bit about what the intended purpose for this video was. For the long time, subscribers, obviously I mentioned this a lot, but I just graduated from Yale, and at Yale I studied computer science, and for some reason all these new subscribers can't understand why anyone would possibly want to go to Yale to study engineering. When you want to go there for, you know, law, history, or whatever else you wanted to study. And maybe this is a hot take, but I kind of feel like studying engineering at a liberal arts school is such a cool, unique experience, and it's so underrated. And so I wanted to talk a little bit about that today and bring on Laura. Laura, you want to introduce yourself and talk about what you study at Yale? Sure. So my name is Laura, and I studied mechanical engineering at Yale. Do you want more? So to get into it, first of all, a lot of these other like big engineering schools you think of like MIT or Georgia Tech, you're going there and 70, 80% of the people there are engineers, which don't get me wrong, it's cool. It's a lot of cool people to collaborate, but you're getting a lot of the same types of people and a lot of the same types of brains, people that are interested in the same things. And at a school like Yale, you get such a larger variety. Are the engineering programs objectively not as good or not ranked as high? Yeah. But what are you also getting? The experience of Yale and the experience of getting to talk and, you know, develop and, you know, build new ideas with a much more diverse group of thinkers and group of people that are studying a bunch of different things. Yeah. Well, I also think that with almost any engineering major, you could buy the textbooks yourself and learn most of the material you would learn in the classroom on your own. And I think what really defines your college experience is going to be the peers that you study alongside with. And you're just going to have a very different experience at a liberal arts school rather than at a technical school. And I think every single person is going to have their own unique opinion on where they think they would thrive more. The two of us were definitely a lot more pulled towards the idea of studying with a lot of different people from different backgrounds and different interests and getting that experience with our peers as well as with other engineering majors. And I think that added to the value of my engineering degree personally. And that's not to say that like schools like MIT or Georgia Tech don't have diversity per se.  So it's just it's just cool that there was such an amalgamation of different people with different interests. And it wasn't just gung-ho engineering. And did we have slightly less engineering resources per se? Yes. But like Laura was saying earlier, a lot of the, you know, fundamental things that you're learning can be taught to yourself. Anyways, at no point did I feel like I didn't have the resources to help me succeed. There could always be more. But I like really enjoyed the time that we had even our extracurricular activities were both in like the aerospace association. And we got plenty of funding and help and, you know, technical expertise that kind of backed the programs and the projects that we're working on. Yeah, I completely agree. And I think there was even added value in having such a smaller class size of engineers. I felt like I got to be a lot closer with everybody else in my major and have much more opportunity to learn about their passions and interests and what motivated them to become engineers. And I think I maybe would have gotten at a school where there were thousands of other engineering majors. Like the CS degree at Yale, which was Yale's biggest engineering major was like 70 or 80 people. And what mechanical engineering was less than 20? Yeah, around 20. So any of all focus on my face. So any of you all that were trying to tell me that studying engineering at Yale was a terrible idea. I hope this video kind of informed maybe changed your opinion. So as usual, the comment section and my Instagram DMs are open. If you have any questions, drop a like on this video. Helps me and supports the channel a lot more than you think and I'll see you next time.


So you're here to talk or to listen about styles, which is a great feature of writer and Most of you may know Reports these are from From our support platform ask dot liberal office org People who ask about styles how to apply how to work with it. Why is my style not? Effective anymore. What can I do to copy and paste? Problems issues with understanding there are millions because of course writer is used in a Brode Area and many people from the very beginner up to the experts are using it and everyone is Recommended to use styles and that's what we propagate. We try to educate people to use styles, but in the end They struggle with it. They struggle with the understanding we can of course they it is a question of documentation it's a question a matter of learning and You have to make yourself familiar with software to use it, but on the other hand it is also Difficult situation reason here why people One reason why people don't understand is that the styles have some kind of hierarchy you can define a paragraph style with Yellow background a character style with black red background and Put that on your text and add a direct formatting and you get a completely different color if this happens people are Confused of course so what does it mean we Need a couple of requirements. How can we deal with it beyond good documentation? beyond education one is we take Baxilla the the request from user as basis for what the we need in the program and One request that adverse to discuss is a display of inherited attributes if you use a style Inherit from a parent then you get different attributes and that has to be displayed in a proper way. I don't go through all the The text it's not so important I just want to show that we have many tickets many requests and enhancement requests what to do the Identification what is effective right now is an important feature also the Removal If the style Gets Changes to the parent you cannot remove any change you you just add on top more if You use a certain font in the derived style. It is of course different but setting it back to the Style from the parent does not unset this Properties this attribute so if the parent changes the changed one in the Children will remain there you need something to delete it and the last one here is Nesting character styles that adds a little bit more complexity to the Situation right now you can have one character style and apply character style to the text like say Emphasize to make see the text in italic the format Allows to have more than one character styles The request here called nested character style means more than one multiple character styles So you can have a bold italic and underlined all three Different character styles to one part of the text Putting all these together in a nutshell. You have two requirements if wants to get an overview of the Formattings to understands actually out if is our persona for the advanced user and if wants to remove individual properties That's all pretty simple What can we do? actually We have some something like this the paragraph style has in the organizer tap and section what Formatting this style contains in relation to the parent in this case text body it is yellow and something else is set and At this position we can solve the removal problem easily we can click on the axe here at the at the text to remove the Removes the attribute it is just one part of the game. I will not talk further about removal, but the idea here is taken into the Actual proposal it is a new deck that we could introduce should introduce a deck at the site bar that lists all the styles in the tree and Starting with the top most dial of course default It would show only those Attributes from the parent from the parent that have changed. It shouldn't be too many in this case font name Identation alignment and so on to avoid too Many information on one side, but suggest to collapse Starting with a certain number that means default with no parents would have all the The attributes a style have listed hundreds or maybe not hundreds, but a lot It is a collapsed all the time as shown here, but you can open it in this case the user has derived Another style from text body using at this particular situation It is with a font size and 12 and language and French So it's a French guy writing a thesis based on the text body Makes quite sense goal is to see clearly what is applied and It happens that you define Attribute in one Part of the game in the practice paragraph side here text body and overwrite it with some other Features that you have font name for example is Overwritten by the font name and to cover this suggestion is to Gray out those attributes that are changed in relation to the parent So they have to get listed, but they are not they do not apply to the current selection The sidebar shows the situation that's It's a cursor. So what is being focused is listed here? and Under character style it's Showing the example with a multiple character styles This case emphasize and strong emphasize is applied to say text And you get more than one Entry in the list. I think it's pretty clear and straightforward and the goal is to I hope it allows users to more easily understand what styles mean and what Why a certain appearance happens right now But it's just one part of the Trouble the other is that you not Clearly know from a from the whole document. What happens in in the in all pages then you see only the Style attributes that's a cursor You don't get an overview for the full document the request here is a style indicate and document margin People request to highlight direct formatting. That's it The reason to look through all the document you want to clean up the document and remove all the direct for meetings Maybe you want to see if all the text body style that you want to use in the Example before the the teasers text style if you have applied it to really all the paragraphs and Reveal codes is an example from the perfect in a word styles You want to get an overview and Change those styles that you mistakenly applied that could be done Later first of all I I suggest to Combine paragraph styles these left-hand paragraph styles in the sidebar and character styles and sidebar are right now separated into two fuse This toggle buttons toggle buttons here on top And you have to switch between paragraph style and character style. You don't see What's going on on the other side? The proposal is to combine it into one sidebar call it text styles, of course show the paragraph styles and the Character styles together then as styles and to expose the hierarchical few as a different kind of Visualization and not a kind of filter right now we have a filter show the hidden styles show All applied styles show only document styles and so it makes not much sense to have a way to show it like the hierarchical Few with all the filtering mechanism that's to expose the hidden and hierarchical Few into checkboxes so you can always switch it on and off and all the other filter go into the Remain in the drop-down. It's a bottom. That's the interesting part here you get one checkbox show the Highlight the styles in the document and that could look like this Document margin Zeef's a small bar this colored identification of the paragraph color corresponds to the small bar at the paragraph and character styles and Since color is not the only Information or must not be the only information we add numbers to it In the example the tense applied style is You can or cannot read text buddy It has number 10 and a screen and you can see that the first the third fourth fifth paragraph are Formatted as a text body It's written with 10 here and so on now. We have the character styles so far it was known it's taken from An example is word on Mac that shows these styles like this But that it lacks on character styles proposal here is to have highlighting and a frame around a little bit larger than the actual font is to visualize that this part of the text has a certain Character style here in this case the two in front of it This is a two Corresponds to this too and the color should be also Clearly visible to be yellow and the emphasize here is orange In last but not least we have is the direct formatting direct formatting here is done as Yellow background with direct formatting so we show a gray frame around this Part of the text to indicate the direct formatting by the way these Lengths could be also a quite interesting addition if someone is looking for a project Sounds to me not too difficult to implement it and it is very useful to have this That's a feature so To summarize Google summer of code is coming it is a proposal to add a sidebar a new deck and the sidebar show the styles their attributes from styles in the sidebar and Maybe another project to highlight in the document what is applied that was my talk. Thank you for listening It took me a while to get the idea how to realize it it is a simple it could be a simple as we gee the the lens itself is magnifying glass and this one here is a Circle and I put Just some screenshot as a bitmap on top of this shape And it's bored Everything is there it you can do it out of the box and it should be possible to to to have this as a function So imagine you create a presentation at a lens from let's say From somewhere at a lens and you can move it around Animated it is a killer feature against Published Yeah, sure There was three steps that I did manually and it could be automated Yes, yeah Unused styles Today we have the hierarchy is a different kind of you to Use styles if you want to show only the use styles you don't get a hierarchy It's not a tree That But you know how to enable it you go to tools option language enable the Asian and CJK Thing and then you get the opportunity to select It in the in the dialogues, or am I wrong? Maybe I got you wrong Okay, okay. Okay. I don't have an answer. Sorry I guess there are many corner cases and We cannot solve everything with simple solutions. There was One disc point to discuss one was conditional styles You define some weird condition and you get a different appearance depending on the variable that you set them there Hard to imagine that people really use it, but there are so many out and it is being used We need some a way to to show the conditional formatting. I would do it in a simplest way possible to Realize it Quicker one option that comes in my mind is to have just a simple and I can Information button next to this to the attributes that is changed by condition Or so Just simple solution or ignore it the majority of users I believe benefit from a good feedback of applied styles Better feedback Hopefully, okay No one else so thanks for listening


Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia Oh David that's very pretty you're very good voice today. It's the first song recital. I've ever given in a filling I never thought I'd spend so much time in one I don't know why it's taking them so long just to change the oil in the car if they don't hurry We're never going to catch our farmer David. Why do we need a farmer? I thought you were going to be one darling a farmer isn't something you're going to be a farmer is something You have to be all along. I don't see what's so hard about it.  It's just the same thing, isn't it only a little bigger. Mm-hmm just a little Well, I'm a little bigger too. You're lots bigger Did you ever try to milk a window box at five o'clock in the morning? It's hard to milk a cow. Is that what you're trying to say? Can't be too hard David when you think of how many cows are milked every day. I mean if it were so hard I don't think so many people would know how to do it. They know how because they were born on farms you and I weren't Unless you want to count your window box. I do and I'm sure our cows won't count window boxes Can't you learn how? Read it in a book or that newspaper you've been carrying around with you for the last two days Yes, you mean the rural New Yorker. That's what it's called the rural New Yorker You think you'd be called the rural Connecticut or no that doesn't sound right, does it? Do they call people from Connecticut? Connecticutters? No I think it's Connecticuticians Connecticut... Connecticutist. Now they call them nutmeg Yankees. Oh it can't be that simple. This is the country. The Englands are supposed to be simple up here. Then what do they call people from Massachusetts? They call them Yankees too. You see it really isn't simple at all. I said it was supposed to be simple.  Farming is one of the most complicated occupations in the world. Who has been going on for so long? You'd think they'd have found a way to make it easier by now. The easier it gets, the more complicated it gets. What was that? I think that's one of the troubles.  But I guess unless you were born and brought up in a chicken coop, you can't begin to understand it. But you've been looking at it for two days. I think by now you'd know it by heart. I haven't been trying to become a farmer by reading this newspaper. I've been reading the advertisements and trying to find one. Find one what? Find one farmer. His father and his wife. I'd like a couple. Never knew farmers advertised. There's a whole column of people who want farms. That's what I've been looking at. People who want farms. David, I am not going to sell that farm just because you can't understand what you read in a newspaper. Oh, they don't want to buy farms. They want to work on them. Only I don't see anyone who might work on our place. What's wrong with our place? It's beautiful. It's a real salt box with extensions. Certainly. With a championship herd of jerseys, grazing happily in our imagination. You mean a farmer won't come to work for us until we have a real farm? Until we do, we won't be able to afford one. Well then we'll just have to do it all by ourselves. We've got to find somebody around here in Eastbrook who could come and work for us part-time. After we get things started, I can learn how to milk the cows myself. At five o'clock in the morning? David, can't we get some cows that like to sleep late? There must be some. To read the rule of New Yorker, you'd think they'd found everything else. Tomatoes that won't blight, chickens that lay 340 eggs a year, strawberries that grow as big as yours and as big as your fist, how you'd overcome acid in the soil, how to get acid out of the soil if you haven't got it in the first place, but every good American cow still wakes up at five o'clock in the morning, even with daylight saving time. Then we certainly have to get a farmer. That's why we've made a date with Mr. Bell. I hope you'll be able to spare us one of his hands part-time. One of his hands? David, what are you saying? One of the people who works on his farm, they call them hands, with having him living at our house in the spare room with his wife to help you with the baby. He'd be able to work for us part-time for Mr. Bell the rest of the time. A minute ago there wasn't enough to keep one hand busy. Now we have to have four. I don't understand it. Where'd you get four? Well, two hands on the hand and two hands on the wife. That's four. That's our card. You must have the oil changed. And before I listen to any more of your arithmetic, let's go see Mr. Bell. What sort of a farmer is Mr. Bell? Well, to begin with, he's the only one nearest. The only one who might do. And everybody in Eastbrook says that he's the best farmer in the county. His cattle win all the ribbons at State Fair. His squash is as big as elephant's ears. Really? Mm-hmm. His corn grows eight feet high. He raises artichokes and scallions and coal-rabby and green peppers. And spinach and carrots and red peppers and a few specialty vegetables like andeeve and mushrooms. What's coal-rabby, Mr. Bell? You've never had coal-rabby. Nope. Well, it's a cross between turnips and cabbage. It brings a very good price. I'll give you some next summer. Thanks. I had no idea that Connecticut soil was so good for farming. I'd always thought of it mainly as a dairy country. There's no more fertile soil anywhere if you know how to treat it. And if you don't know, I suppose you'd better stick the daring, huh? Mm-hmm. Or raising turkey. Oh, I don't want to raise anything I'd have to eat later. Then you'd better not become a farmer. Anything that can look at me in the eye, I don't want to eat later. Well, Mrs. Norton, that cuts out pigs and chickens and calves. And I guess it cuts out black-eyed peas, too. We wouldn't want them to look as handsome as Mrs. Norton from outside. I guess maybe Mrs. Norton will someday be just like any farmer's wife and she'll eat anything if she's hungry enough. Well, Mrs. Norton, you'll be happy to hear that my wife won't eat a chicken unless I can prove to her I bought it downtown. And I think she lost her taste for veal completely since, uh, a little misunderstanding we had ten years ago. You see, David, it's just what I told you. Farmers aren't really different from people at all. A good farmer is just like a good businessman. The earth is a hard mistress, but if you use your head, you can make a give-back to you as much as you put in. Now, uh, let's see what your problem is. Well, the cows wake up at five o'clock in the morning. That's a very serious problem indeed. But I assure you it's a lot worse if they won't wake up at all. Well, my wife means that we expect to buy a few cows and we'll need somebody to take care of them. I think I can solve that. Now, frankly, Mr. Norton, I've been eyeing that land you bought for a long time. Your place isn't too far from here, and I can arrange that one of our men can take care of your herd in addition to mine. I'm sure we can work out a satisfactory arrangement that will include that. That's fine. Then, of course, you'll want alfalfa. Al-hoo? What? Are you kidding? Mr. Bell said something about an al-somebody. Mr. Bell suggested, darling, that we will have to plant something like al-falfa for the cows to graze on in the summertime. Oh, I know. They eat all summer and then in the winter they... What do farmers do in the winter, Mr. Bell? Well, I guess everyone who hasn't lived on a farm would like to know the answer to that one. And in a couple of years, I'll come around and ask you the question myself. Can you really become a farmer in a couple of years, Mr. Bell? It depends on how hard you try. Now, you've got some good land there, Mr. Norton. Open enough to run my tractors on. I'll be glad to work it for you. Oh, wait a minute. Have you a silo there? What's a silo? No, we haven't got one now. I didn't think you had. Old Pucker hasn't had cattle on that land in years. What's a silo? You can learn that at your leisure. You'll only need a temporary one to begin with. I'm raising more corn than I need here, and I'll sell it to you as part of the deal. You aren't leaving very much for us to do. How can we learn to be farmers this way, Mr. Bell? Then I assume you'll want some garden crops. Probably some corn, but I'm not mistaken. You have some apple trees at the foot of the hill. And walnut trees at the west? Walnuts, eh? Well, we can forget about those. It costs too much money to take care of them, and they don't bring enough unless you have a good-sized grove. Well, my wife isn't so far off when she says there isn't much left for us to take care of. Mr. Norton, the objective to accomplish this work is efficiently as possible. The cheapest way is to handle your place as part of mine. I can see you understand that. That's why you came to me. I came to your farm just the way I handle other fields I rent. Rented fields? Well, we don't exactly think of our places just a spare plot of ground, Mr. Bell. Now, Mr. Norton, I don't like to hear you talk that way. The trouble with most farmers is that they're sentimental and try to do everything the way their great-grandmum will did it. They don't like to hear their land being called truck-garden land when they've always had tobacco on it. They don't like to hear it called good-vegetable land if they've always used it for dairying. Yes, I know, but... I've made a success of farming, I think, because I've tried to be as cold-blooded about my farm as a businessman is about his factory. That's all a farm is, Mr. Norton. A factory without a roof. You look surprised, Mr. Norton. Didn't expect to find this kind of sense in the country, did you? But all we wanted was two cows. Even one cow. Doesn't matter how big or how small your farm is, you've got to think of it in the same practical and level-headed way a businessman plans his operations. But, Mr. Bell, if we'd wanted to be merely practical and level-headed, we might have stayed in New York. I hope you're not going to turn out to be one of those people who think the country is just an excuse for incompetence and inefficiency. Oh, no, we didn't think of it that way, but... Excuse me, Mrs. Norton. I'd like to finish this train of thought. Sorry.  I'll work out the unit cost for your land and when I put it under cultivation, we'll work out our respective shares of the ultimate product. David, do you understand what Mr. Bell says? I think I do. He means that he wants to farm our land the way he wants to and he'll give us a share of what he takes out of it and we'll be living on it like a couple of squatters. David, is that what we wanted? I don't think it is. Mr. Bell, I know you've been a farmer all your life and you know how to do these things much better than we do, but I'd like to continue my train of thought, Mrs. Norton. You have a very fine piece of property there and I don't want to see it go to waste, but when you say I've been a farmer all my life, you're wrong. You haven't been?  If I were a born farmer, Mrs. Norton, this farm here might be the same run-down, old-fashioned, decrepit place it was when I took it over ten years ago. Ten years ago? Then you mean you're really not from Connecticut at all? I should say not. I'm from New York. I used to run a factory that made electric motors. I had to move to the country, but I didn't leave my brains behind. Well, Mr. Bell, we may have left ours behind, but we really didn't mean to put our whole farm under cultivation quite this way. I'm afraid it's the only way in which I'd be willing financially to undertake it. Then you couldn't just share one man with us? Not without upsetting my own procedure. Well, then, that settles it. I'm sorry we even disturbed you, Mr. Bell. David, I... But I don't suppose you know of any couple who would live with us to help us out? I'm afraid I don't, Mr. Norton. I'm afraid I can't help you. David, listen to me, please. What is it, darling? David, I... Well, I think we're enough of a couple for any farm. You mean for any farm without cows? Well, they're without cows. I'm telling you, Mr. Bell wasn't born in Connecticut. I don't see why we have to have been born in Connecticut, either. And come to think of it, I... I won't mind getting up at five o'clock. Will you? Five o'clock? Well, that's very sweet of you, darling. But to begin with, we'll be getting our milk out of a nice glass bottle. Here's a pleasant suggestion to recall in the midst of marketing. Look around, and chances are you'll find a Coca-Cola cooler in your favorite food store. Then shift your bottles to the other arm, drop a nickel in the slot of that friendly cooler, and up will come a bottle of ice-cold refreshment. You'll find, as so many women do, that things seem to go a lot smoother when you shop refreshed. Excuse me, Mr. King, what happened to those nortons? Well, I guess they hurried back to the city, Mr. Bell. They looked a little disappointed to me. Can't understand why they should be. Well, I guess they just wanted to do it themselves, didn't they? Living in a city, you get kind of tired, not doing things for yourself, even things like your own laundry. Sometimes you send it to a Chinese laundry, and when you can't talk Chinese any better than David can, you have quite a time getting it back, as David finds out tomorrow. Well, be seeing you, Mr. Bell. I'll be seeing you too, Mr. King. As I was saying, every day Monday through Friday, Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola. So listen again tomorrow at the same time, and now this is Joe King saying au revoir. And remember, whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be, when you think of refreshment, think of Coca-Cola. Or ice-cold Coca-Cola makes any pause. The pause that refreshes. This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney. And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola.