Wait, Brooke, you forgot your lunch. Oh, I never forgot something. You all be very careful around... Sure, there's cause for concern for this mother about her children's safety and traffic. But a lot of her worry has been lessened by the knowledge that bicycles are a lot safer than ever before. The major reason is the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. It tests not only bicycles, but a wide range of consumer products to bring about a margin of safety. This morning, we're going to take a look at skateboards, take a look at the hazard analysis, the economic data, the engineering data, and our resource requirements and our budgetary needs for this fiscal year. Don has the injury picture looked. Well, Bill, there were about 106,000 injuries reporting during the past year through emergency rooms, of which about half those were children between 10 and 14 years old. Generally, how serious are the injuries? About a third were fractures. Serious injuries are greatly reduced as a result of long-range work, such as studies of product injury trends, product standards, and public information programs. Our daily routines are varied in scope, but we are all committed to reducing or eliminating unreasonable risks of injury caused by unsafe consumer products. Often by working with the manufacturer and the consumer, we can eliminate the causes of injuries, thereby making recalls, bands, or mandatory standards less likely. Here, technicians are conducting a test to determine the flammability of children's sleepwear. Unfortunately, accidents do happen. When they do, we want to know as many of the details as possible. Terminals like this have been placed in selected hospital emergency rooms throughout the country. When a hospital receives an emergency room patient with an injury involving a consumer product, pertinent details about the person, the product, and the injury are entered into the terminal and fed to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. This computer network, called NICE, is our problem-detecting tool. It helps us determine which products are associated with various injuries. Close to one half million reports are tabulated annually, representing a cross-section of consumer product-related injuries created in emergency rooms. The evaluation process doesn't stop here. CPSC investigators often visit with victims and their families to find out first-hand exactly what did happen. About 7,000 cases are investigated annually by commission field and contract personnel. Their reports assist us in determining the product hazard under which conditions the injury is most likely to occur. Information gathered from all sources helps set the commission's priorities. We can then decide which problems to attack first. Testing is an essential part of the commission's work. We may have a product type that has caused many accidents. We know it is unsafe. A series of comprehensive tests are conducted to identify the exact problem. Once this is accomplished, we continue testing to find the most appropriate ways to eliminate or reduce the hazard. These technicians aren't testing the product. They are testing the test procedures. Before issuing a mandatory standard, we examine our own test standards. This particular sequence is examining bicycle brake performance. Marker guns are used to determine how long it takes to stop from a speed of 15 miles per hour. Through our information hotlines, our written materials, and media campaigns, we're helping consumers become more safety conscious. When people actively look for product safety in the things they buy, manufacturers respond by making safer products. One of the most far-reaching actions the commission can take is to issue a mandatory safety regulation, such as we've done on bicycles. Requests to set standards or ban products come about in several ways. Some we initiate ourselves. Others come in the form of petitions from groups or interested individuals. Now when a petition for a standard or ban is received, the staff researches the issue before the commission decides whether to begin to develop a rule. Once a standard is issued, all products of that type, after the effective date, must meet the specifications in the standard. Good morning. I'm Pat Jenkins. I'm an investigator with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Investigators visit retailers and manufacturers regularly. It's part of their job to examine products in the marketplace to see that they comply with the commission's regulations. So you see, if you put together all of the activity that goes on here at the commission, you get a flow. Data collection, analysis, strategy setting, product testing, development of standards, and public information. People all trying to anticipate problems and stop them before they can occur. It's a very difficult and time-consuming assignment. We think we've made a good start. And progress? Well, it's one of our most meaningful accomplishments. Thanks to the people at CPSC, thousands of product-related injuries and deaths were prevented last year. This film has been brought to you by the people of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.


Let's finish our discussion of mathematics and data science and the basic principles by looking at something called Bayes theorem. And if you're familiar with regular probability inferential testing, you could think about Bayes theorem as the flip side of the coin. You can also think of it in terms of intersections. So for instance, standard inferential tests and calculations give you the probability of the data that's our D given the hypothesis. So if you assume a null hypothesis is true, this will give you the probability of the data arising by chance. The trick is most people actually want the opposite of that they want the probability of the hypothesis given the data. And unfortunately, those two things can be very different in many circumstances. On the other hand, there's a way of dealing with it. Bayes does it. And this is our guy right here, the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an 18th century English minister and statistician. And he developed a method of getting what are called posterior probabilities that uses prior probabilities and test information or things like base rates, how common something overall, to get the posterior or after the fact probability. Here's the general recipe to how this works. You start with the probability of the data given hypothesis, which is what you get from the likelihood of the data. You also get that from a standard inferential test to that you need to add the probability of the hypothesis or the cause being true. That's called the prior or the prior probability. To that you also add the probability of D the probability of the data that's called the marginal probability. And then you combine those in a special way to get the probability of the hypothesis given the data or the posterior probability. Now if you want to write it as an equation, you can write it in words like this posterior is equal to likelihood times prior divided by marginal. You can also write it in symbols like this, probability of H given D probability of the hypothesis given the data that's the posterior probability is equal to the probability of the data given the hypothesis that's the likelihood multiplied by the probability of hypothesis and divided by the probability of the data overall. But this is a lot easier if we look at a visual version of it. So let's go to this example here. Let's say we have a square here that represents 100% of all people and we're looking at a medical condition. And what we're going to say here is that we've got this group up here that represents people who have a disease. So that's a portion of all people. And then what we say is we've got a test and people with the disease 90% of them will test positive. So they're marked in red. Now it doesn't mean that over here on the far left, we have people with the disease who test negative that's 10%. Those are our false negatives. And so if the test catches 90% of the people who have the disease, that's good, right? Well, let's look at it this way. Let me ask a basic question. If a person tests positive for disease, then what is the probability that they really have the disease? And if you want to hint, I'm going to give you one, it's not 90%. Here's how it goes. So this is the information I gave you before, and we've got 90% of the people who have the disease, that's a conditional probability, they test positive. But what about the other people, the people in the big white area below of all people? Well, we're going to need to look at them and see if any of them ever test positive, do we ever get false positives? And with any test, you are going to get false positives. And so let's say our people without the disease, and that 90% of them test negative the way they should. But that of the people who don't have the disease, 10% of them test positive, those are false positives. And so if you really want to answer the question, if you test positive, do you have the disease? Here's what you need. What you need is the number of people with the disease who test positive, divided by all people who test positive. Let's look at it this way. So here's our information. We've got 29.7% of all people are in this darker red box, those are the people who have the disease and test positive. All right, that's good. And then we have 6.7% of the entire group, that's the people without the disease who test positive. So we want to do the probability of disease. So we have what percentage have the disease and test positive, and then divide that by all people who test positive. And that bottom part's made up of two things. That's made up of the people who have the disease and test positive, and the people who don't have the disease and test positive. Now we can take our numbers and start plugging them in. Those who have the disease and test positive, that's 29.7% of the total population of everybody. We can also put that number right here. That's fine. But we also need to look at the percentage that do not have the disease and test positive of the total population, that 6.7%. So we just need to rearrange, we add those two numbers on the bottom, we get 36.4. And we do a little bit of division. And the number we get is 81.6%. Here's what that means. A positive test result still means only a probability of 81.6% of having the disease. So the test is advertised as having 90% accuracy. Well, if you test positive, there's really only an 82% chance that you have the disease. Now, that's not a really big difference. But consider this, what if the numbers change? For instance, what if the probability of the disease changes? Here's what we originally had. Let's move it around a little bit. Let's make the disease much less common. And so now what we do is we're going to have 4.5% of all people are people who have the disease and test positive. And then because there's a larger number of people who don't have the disease, we're going to have a relatively larger proportion of false positives. Again, compared to the entire population, it's going to be 9.5% of everybody. So we're going to go back to our formula here in words and start plugging in numbers. We get 4.5% right there. And right there. And then we add in our other number, the false positives, that's 9.5%. Well, we rearrange and we start adding things up, that's 14%. And when we define that, we get 32.1%. Here's what that number means. That means a positive test results. So you get a positive on the test. Now means that you have a probability of only 32.1% of having the disease. That's two thirds less than the advertised accuracy of 90%. And in case you can't tell, that's a really big difference. And that is why Bayes theorem matters, because it answers the question that people want, and the answer can be dramatically different, depending on the base rate of the thing that you're talking about. And so in sum, we can say this, Bayes theorem allows you to answer the right question, people really want to know, what's the probability that I have the disease, as opposed to what's the probability of getting a positive if I have the disease, they want to know whether they have the disease. Now to do this, and this is the big trick, you need prior probabilities, you need to know how common the disease is, you need to know how many people get positive test results overall. But if you can get that information and run them through, it can change your answers. And really the emotional significance of what you're dealing with dramatically.


To introduce our first keynote speaker, this is very exciting for me. We have Lucy Bain coming all the way from Sydney. Lucy's an engineer at Atlassian. She is also one of the organizers for the Women Who Code group in Sydney, Rails Girls, and has done a number of other community outreach programs. Could you please join me in giving a huge round of applause? Lucy Bain, everyone. I moved to Sydney three years ago, sight unseen. This is literally my first view of the city. Now I moved with my partner, but I didn't have any friends there. So when I got there, I decided to go to meetups. Lots of meetups. Now I went to these events, but I still struggled to meet people. I struggled to have interesting conversations with them. Instead, I had those circular conversations of where do you work? Where do you live? What do you do now? On to the next person, over and over. To be honest, I wasn't very open with them. I would let them do the talking and then kind of fizzle out into awkward silences. And I would leave these events feeling drained and frustrated. This all culminated about a year later with my sitting in this park crying because I didn't have any friends. I felt useless and broken. Normal people can make friends. I'd made friends in the past. What was so wrong with me? So after I got sad, I got angry. And I decided that I needed to do this a slightly different way. So my first change was to go to the events that I actually enjoyed. And at these events, I would volunteer for anything. You needed somebody to get there early and check people's names off. I was your girl. You wanted somebody to stay late and stack chairs? Sure, I could totally be there. Because I was at these events constantly and for so long, people started to recognize me and remember me. It also meant that I had time to ask them questions, something more interesting than just where do you work, but what language do you use? Why do you like that? Tell me a bit more. As I became more confident and outgoing, I was better able to make friends. Having friends made me more confident and outgoing. It was this great, positive cycle. Now, eventually, some of these groups that I was part of needed new leaders. Their leaders had moved away or burnt out. It was just time for a change. And so they asked me if I would step up. I had obviously proven that I was really interested in doing this kind of stuff, because I was there all the time. Now, I get to run these meetup events. And I love it. I hope that I help other people reach out and connect with one another, which is what I'm here to ask you today. What's holding you back from connecting with others? Now, this comes in three levels for the purposes of this talk, at least. First, there's this base level. These are these one-on-one connections, those conversations you have with individuals at meetup groups or these friendship groups that you have. This is where you need to start reaching out beyond yourself. For me, at this level, I was being held back by shyness. So that's what we'll talk about here. Then, there's this community level. Now, I'm going to be talking mostly about programming communities, because it's what I have the most experience with and what we have in common. But if you're part of other communities or school groups, hopefully these lessons will apply as well. At this level, most people are intimidated by showing up at all. We talked about how it was difficult to go and meet these roomful of strangers. And I definitely get that. People who are there are often intimidated to give talks. So that's what we'll be talking about both of those in this section. Then, there's leaders. Now, I think of leaders as really just the most active members of the community. I don't think that they're particularly special. But the connections that the leaderships have is a little bit different. It's not so much about connecting more with your members as about facilitating your members connecting with one another. And on this level, most people feel that they don't know how to start. Or if they do have an idea about how they want to start, they lack the confidence to do so. So we're covering both of those as well. I've done it all. It has been a long journey for me, for being shy, to being able to stand here in front of you today. I've worked hard to move past these barriers that I've had for myself.  Being part of these communities has been a fantastic experience for me as I hope it has been for you too. I encourage you to push your boundaries when connecting with one another, to become more active and friendly members of your communities, and, if you're willing, to play a leading role for them as well. So let's start on that base level, those one-on-one connections that really lay the foundation. So in year four, I was introduced to my fellow student as shy. And at the time, I was really indignant about this. I wasn't shy. What's this teacher talking about? I just never talked to people I didn't know because they were scary. And I always had a book in my backpack ready to go for a quiet moment, or so I could just ignore the people who were trying to talk to me. And during recess, I wrote short stories about cats. But I wasn't shy. She was crazy. Looking back, my teacher was totally right. I was absolutely shy. Now before we get too involved with my awkward adolescent years, let's get a few things straight. I'm going to be talking about four main personality traits, shy, introvert, outgoing, and extrovert. Now while some of these are often used interchangeably, they're actually different. And it's important that we note those differences now. So shy is being reserved or tibboned around others, whereas outgoing is being friendly or socially confident with others. An introvert is somebody who gets their energy from being alone, whereas an extrovert is someone who gets their energy from being with others. Now these definitions are definitely simplified. If you'd like to talk more in depth about that, I'd love to chat with you after. But they'll be good enough for us for this talk. Now it's possible to fall into any one of these four quadrants, and I know people in all of them. And while I've drawn it with really hard lines like this, it's actually more of a sliding scale. You can kind of fall anywhere in this area. Now fun fact, if you don't quite identify as an extrovert or an introvert, you might be what's called an ambivert, which is somebody who falls right in the middle. So in 1967, the University of London did a study where they took a bunch of babies and they put a little bit of lemon juice on their tongue and they measured the baby's response rate. So did they really freak out about things or were they kind of like, no, that's annoying, but whatever. Then when these babies grew up, they gave the kids a personality test to find out if they were introverts or extroverts. So, hands up if you have heard of this study before. Oh, that's pretty good, sweet. Hands up, if you think the babies who freaked out were extroverts, cool. And now, hands up if you think the babies who freaked out were introverts. All right, pretty split, that's good for me.  Even as babies, they experienced the world more strongly than their extroverted counterparts. This is one of the reasons that introversion and extroversion is so common on personality traits. It's because it's extremely consistent throughout your life. On the flip side, being shy and outgoing is much more variable. In fact, most people experience profound shyness in their toddler years, where they're cowering behind their parents' legs. Or maybe you were really outgoing, experienced an emotional trauma, and now you're much more reserved than you were. This can even be situational. Some people are really comfortable talking with their coworkers, but really nervous about talking to a sales clerk. Or maybe you feel more comfortable giving your speech to a roomful of strangers than a handful of your good friends. Now these four traits can have a big impact on how you connect. We'll take a moment though. If you don't feel held back by your shyness, that's fantastic. I am not here to tell you that you have to change. I'm here to offer my experience and see if it's something that maybe you can benefit from. So, back to my story. As a child, I didn't feel particularly held back by my shyness. I had one good friend a year, but I wasn't jealous of my classmates' better social abilities. To be honest, I probably wasn't aware of my classmates' better social abilities. I was pretty awkward, and it was working for me. I was okay with that. Until I wasn't. I was in high school when I had this moment of realization. It was a very American high school. We literally had the red lockers and red and white tile floors, but I suddenly realized that I was feeling really isolated. I looked around this hallway and I saw all my other classmates chatting amongst themselves, laughing, having conversations, and I realized that I had held myself back from those connections. I'm not sure why I realized it so distinctly in that moment, but that's the moment that I really remember, that I decided that I wanted to change. Now, I had been shy my whole life and I knew I wasn't gonna just suddenly be outgoing, so I decided to start small. Really small. I started with smiling. And yes, it probably was about that awkward because I would forget that I needed to smile sometimes and I kind of go into my thing and then, oh, I'm so sweet smiling now, ah! And I would just do my normal thing of looking at the floors, I'm walking along, and remember that I need to be smiling, so I'd just be standing there smiling at the floor. Okay, well that got a bit weird, so I knew I needed to start looking up when I was smiling. Well now I'm looking up, making eye contact with my classmates as I walk down the hall and they started to greet me. So I'd say, hi, Lucy. I'd be like, hey, person. And that was awkward too. So I had to start learning their names. This smiling thing had way more of a snowball effect than I expected it to and that really worked for me.  I needed to ask more questions in class even if those questions felt stupid or I needed to strike up a conversation with a classmate even though I didn't know that much about them. These little things built up and I made it a point early on to celebrate any little win I had. If I remembered to smile, that was a win. If I asked a question in class when I normally wouldn't, that was a win.  At the time, I talked to some of my friends about this project of mine and while they could see that it was something I was interested in, they asked if I was doing it for the right reasons. Was I faking this outgoing self of mine? And if that's how you feel it's understandable, I can see where you're coming from. The way that I view it though is that nobody's ever 100% themselves to everyone they meet all of the time. I show a different facet of myself to my mom than I do when I'm doing a code review with my coworkers. Everybody has all of these different little versions and they're no less me than any other version I would show. This outgoing self, I had been too afraid to show her previously but I was pushing myself to do that. I wanted to connect with other people and so I pushed these boundaries. All of this work that I had done to be more outgoing meant that I can do the community work that I do now. This confidence that I was gaining by celebrating those wins and being more and more outgoing meant that I could show up. I could start giving talks and I could eventually start leading these communities. I generally don't feel as held back by shyness although it does still get me sometimes but this means that I'm now better able to participate. Now just like being shy, you don't have to start suddenly being involved just because I'm here telling you that I think it's a great thing. But if you feel that you're being held back from participating, if you feel like you want to join in but that you just don't really know how to get started, I think that's a problem and I'm here to talk to you if that's how you feel. So participating can be scary.  I have been there, I totally, totally get that. I moved to San Francisco after university and there are all these great tech meetups there. Like I should go to those, right? Except I was pretty convinced that any of those meetups was gonna be full of Stanford grads or Googlers or elite hackers like I wasn't and then I was gonna show up and it was gonna be super awkward. I didn't feel that I was gonna belong that I would be good enough to be there. Looking back though, I wish I had gone. When I moved to Sydney, I did start joining in those communities and I found them to be so supportive, so welcoming of me. I wish that I had taken that first step and shown up to those community events in San Francisco and just given them a shot. So if that showing up step for you is difficult, please take one little leap of faith and show up and see how it goes for you. Now that doesn't mean you have to show up at really big events. You can go to whatever events work for you. Maybe you can go to a smaller group and take a friend with you or you can go to those small groups often and make friends there and take them with you to the bigger events. Wherever it is that you are, find something that works for you. If you're feeling settled in your community, start being welcoming. Remember the first time that you attended and how difficult that was for you or if you are just naturally more outgoing and it wasn't difficult for you, think about how difficult it was for me and reach out to people. Look around for people who are standing alone and invite them into your conversations.  They probably want to join in. Some groups are really good at this and they make an effort to reach out to people. You can actually see the difference in your groups. Those little clusters of people, are they staying the same for the whole night or are they ebbing and flowing because people are joining and dropping out and coming into different conversations? And those people who are standing at the edge of the room staring into their drink, are they there for the whole night or are they there just for a few minutes until they're brought in? Think about the communities that you're from and how welcoming they are. What can you do to change this? Now you can definitely still talk with your friends. When you go to these events, I'm not saying you now can only ever talk to the new people. One of the big reasons that I go to community events is so I can catch up with the people I've met there. But if you need to duck out or have that one-on-one chat with somebody, make a really quick introduction. It doesn't take long, but I've met a lot of fantastic people through this and I'm grateful for everybody who's taken those few moments to introduce me to someone else. All right, so you're showing up at your community events, you're getting more active, you're feeling comfortable there. Your next step is to start giving talks. So one of the things that holds people back from giving talks is that, like me, you might believe that everyone already knows what I know. I know this makes no sense at all, but it's definitely something that I tend to believe that if I've learned this new concept like yesterday, suddenly the whole world learned that new topic with me as well. And in fact, this is pretty common. A lot of people tend to feel this way, that you maybe don't have anything to offer. But the thing is, at some point in your life, you probably learn something, right? Hopefully. Whatever it is that you've spent time to learn, you can pass that on to somebody else. When I'm trying to think of a talk or a blog post idea, I ask myself, what would Lucy of three years ago wanted to know? How could I have helped her get to where I am now just a little bit faster? Or maybe if I've been struggling with a topic and just trying to figure this new thing out, I can ask myself, what would Lucy of yesterday wanted to have known? What's the talk or blog post that she could have gone through and saved herself all that time and struggle? Because the thing is, you're probably not a snowflake. Sorry. At some point, you've struggled with something. You've put time and effort into learning it. And chances are, somebody else is struggling with that same thing. So you can share what you've learned and save them some time. My example for this was when I was learning Git. Now, I was in uni when I learned Git. I got through that one assignment that one time and kind of just hoped that I was never gonna use it ever again. Yeah. That's pretty much how that went down. Eventually, I did actually need to know it from my job and I had a pretty bad time of learning it. Their commits and branches and all these different things that I was supposed to be knowing and there were some reset hards just to check if things were working, they did. But I learned more and more about Git and it turned out that I actually really enjoy it. And so I wrote a talk about it. Learning for me was so difficult at first that I wanted to save somebody else some of that pain. Now, this talk that I wrote is aimed at people with zero experience.  But if you're new, it's actually pretty helpful. I've given this talk to probably 10 groups who are at the right level and it's always been really amazing to me to see how they understand things better after. It's particularly enjoyable when I get to do the workshop afterwards and can see them using these new topics right away. So you can find relevant topics because whatever it is that you're interested in is probably relevant for other people. I recently did a survey to find people who used to attend community events but hadn't gone in a while and I asked them why they weren't attending anymore. One of the most common reasons was that they didn't feel that the talks were relevant or pitched at the right level for them. Now, this kind of blows my mind because it's almost always the members who give the talks. So if you wanna have a talk on a particular topic, you can give that talk and it'll be super relevant for you and pitched at just the right level. By doing this, you can slowly change the kind of talks that are expected for this group and the level that is expected as well. Because if you're interested in something, chances are so are the other people in your community. So, ready for the next step? This is about leadership. Last year, I ran a JavaScript study group and I made exactly the group that I wanted. We met once a week so that we would have this accountability and I wouldn't just not do my homework. We had demo time so we could show off the work we had done and I couldn't just say that I had done my homework and hadn't really done it. We had question time in case we had had difficulty with any of the things that we were supposed to be getting through and I was even able to get some tutors to come in from the community. People who probably wouldn't have been willing to give up their Monday nights to help just me. This group worked for me and so it worked for other people as well. I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm involved in the community because I'm actually pretty selfish. I run events for my own benefit. This study group was because I wanted to learn JavaScript. I want these groups to exist for me. I'm pretty selfish and that's made me much more generous with my time. I think selfishness can be a good thing. When you're leading, that means that you are in control with how the group goes. You get to decide on the topic and on the structure. Now I talked about picking topics before and how you're probably not a snowflake so if you're interested, other people are too. But how does that structure work? I've attended or organized a lot of events and so I've gotten a bit opinionated about what I like. For example, I don't particularly like book clubs because I find that they get off topic a lot and tend to waffle and I do like the forced interaction. I'm looking forward to these dinners that are coming up because it makes you connect with people and it helps me overcome my shyness. So think through what event structures do you like? Do you like the free flow of conversation that maybe gets a bit more off topic but encourages discussion? Or maybe do you like the efficiency of knowledge sharing that lectures can provide? Do you need more time to reflect so you can really absorb what you're learning? Where do you fit on things? As a leader, you are in control and you can choose what structure works best for you. So take a minute to think about some past community events you've been to and what kind of events did you prefer? Okay, so hands up if you prefer small groups over large groups and hands up if you prefer seminars or lectures over workshops. Yep, hands up if you want homework versus no homework. Okay, a few hands, more than I was expecting. Any of these has their merits, right? There's pros and cons to each of them and as the leader you get to pick exactly which merits you are the most interested in. Some people say that they feel guilty making these choices and making these selfish decisions. They ask, should they be talking with their members to see which topics their members are interested in or which format they most prefer? These people are held back by their uncertainties and this guilt of feeling selfish. I tend not to have this problem as much because I just admit that I'm really selfish and move forward but I understand where people are coming from and I have two answers for this. One is that planning takes time and so you and your members make a trade-off. You put in more time on the organizing side of things and you make an event that fits you a little bit better. They put in less time and they can show up and maybe the event doesn't fit them quite so well but the thing is if everybody has the choice to lead they are always making that trade-off and if they didn't feel that the event fit them well enough well they could lead and make the choice that way so I don't think it's that bad. The other way to look at it is that if you have chosen to lead you have to step up and lead. You can check in with your members I'm not saying it's like a dictatorship and I certainly run a lot of surveys just to kind of get the pulse but you can keep moving going forward. You don't have to verify every little thing. Because who is the best person to give a talk to run an event or do any of it? You are. If you've offered to do it, if you've stepped up then you are the best person to do this. Sure, there might be somebody in the room who is actually better qualified than you but if they're not stepping up that makes you the best person. So if you can internalize this it is a massive confidence-based. You don't need to check in about every little thing. You don't need to ask permission to change the food for the night. You don't need to feel bad about these selfish decisions that you're making. Because if anyone can lead and you're doing it that means you are the best person for that job. So after that nice little confidence trip you're getting past that imposter syndrome you're ready to start leading. How do you start? Well first off I recommend that you don't start with a conference, right? This is a lot of work. I am really glad that I have not been doing all of this work. Thank you very much. You can start small. I actually think that small events can be particularly helpful for introverts. Makes it a little bit easier I think for them to open up a bit. And when we raised our hands earlier a lot of people said that they liked small events as well. And as we previously talked about going to large meetups can be intimidating for a lot of people. So these small groups make it a bit more accessible. I was really overwhelmed and intimidated when I joined Atlassian. There are like 600 people in the Sydney office alone when I joined. The biggest company I'd ever worked for before was like 30 people. This was a big change for me. There were 30 people on my team. It's just a bit crazy. I knew that I needed a smaller community within Atlassian that I could really connect with. So I was selfish and I made the group that I wanted. It took a bit of trial and error but what I ended up with was coffee dates. So for coffee dates people would opt in and you get paired up randomly with one other person from the group and you're asked to take 30 minutes out of your week and go and get coffee with that person. This takes extraordinarily little organizing. You've got a list of people, you've got a randomizer and you send out one email a week and that's it. It's great, it's fantastic. Definitely recommend. And I've met a lot of interesting people this way. It means that I've connected with people who I wouldn't necessarily have met in my normal working life and who weren't necessarily on my team. Atlassian feels a lot smaller to me now even though we've grown because I've made these connections around the office. Now the other way to look at it is that I wanted to connect and I made coffee dates but other people wanted to connect as well. They signed up. HR wasn't telling them that they really should do this because you're meeting people and you need to and I wasn't harassing them, saying please, please, I need friends like sign up. I made the list available and if they wanted to sign up, they signed up. My needs were not unique. I wasn't a snowflake, I made this community happen and other people wanted it too. These tiny events, events with just two people can still be useful. All right, well let's go a little bit bigger than just two people. We'll start with small groups. Things like the dinner groups for tonight that are sort of eight to 10 people. I think those are a little bit smaller. At Atlassian, I was lucky enough to be part of mentoring rings. I didn't run them but I was one of the members and I really enjoyed my time there. For our mentoring rings, we met every two weeks for about an hour and we discussed whatever we as a group were interested in. We have a short presentation and the mostly discussion after that. We had talks on things like assertiveness or working in teams, negotiating pay rises, things that we had said we were interested in. Now for a group like this, you don't need to be a bouncy and exciting emcee. It's a small group and the group works because it's small. We could have really open and honest conversations with each other. Really honest conversations. We had this deep trust with one another and this facilitated our relationships. We still meet for lunch about once a month even though the group's been finished for probably about a year now. This small group was able to do big things because of these connections we've had with one another. All right, tiny events, small events, slightly larger events. It's getting a little bit more intimidating though and that is pretty reasonable. Most people when I talk to them about maybe trying to run something, feel intimidated. They feel under qualified. They tell me, well, other people run events. Not me, but other people. And somehow it seems like nobody ever expects to do their first event. Everybody just jumps into doing their fifth event. I'm not sure how they get there, but by magic you never really need to do the first one. When I moved to San Francisco, I wanted to do a Python programming course through Udacity online. And I knew that most people don't finish these courses. I thought it was a shame that Udacity didn't put together some kind of groups for us. They didn't have accountability partners maybe or somebody who would check in on us. I felt like they should organize this. Not me, but them. But as I said, I ended up running that JavaScript study group and I realized that actually I could do this. Even as a student, even as somebody wanting to attend the group, I could organize it. And this study group meant that I actually stuck with that program and I didn't drop out of it like I did out of the other course. And I learned a lot. I actually have a job as a front-end developer now because of things that I learned in this course. So you don't need to be special to run events. I was just some person who wanted this thing to exist and I made that happen. It's not that I had special knowledge about JavaScript or really any of it, I just went for it. Anyone can get started because you're probably the best in the room. If you're willing to do it, you definitely are the best in the room for it. You don't have to start big, but you can start wherever you are. You even don't need to have all of the skills. You can always work with other people who have the skills that you're missing. When I started running events, I didn't like being the emcee. I didn't like standing up in front of everybody and telling them what to do. So instead, I worked with an outgoing friend of mine. I would plan the event and then he would bring the energy. We worked together as a team to make good events from the both of us. As leaders, you don't need to have all of the skills. We worked together to make great events or just passable events. To be honest, I have never run a perfect event. I opt for agile organizing. I learned from my mistakes and I take on the feedback that I get from other people as well. Slowly and slowly, I hope that my events get a little bit better each time because you don't need to run a perfect event for it to be effective. You just need to run something. Leading has been some of the most fulfilling community work that I've experienced and I have been surprised with how impactful it has been. I've helped with Rails Girls events which is day and a half long workshops for women who are new to programming. I've seen some of these attendees come back as mentors which is really nice and I've seen them come back as full-time programmers because they've gone on to pursue their learning in programming. I encourage everybody to run events that fit their needs to try more, to try to lead. So it's taken me a long time to be as outgoing as I am now. I've connected with a lot of people along that journey and I've learned from all of them as I've gone. I am proud of how much time I invested in myself. I'm more comfortable with who I am now today than I was before. I know that connecting can be challenging. I really, really get that. A lot of people feel held back by their insecurities or fear or shyness. But the thing is, this is changeable. You can overcome your shyness and I know that it's difficult but I really believe that it's worth it. As we learn not to hold back from one another, we can be more open. We can tell silly stories of staring at the floor and hope that it helps someone else. Then there's participating in your communities and by showing up, you help to change the community. And I know that just show up is difficult. I've been there, it's daunting. But I also have found that these communities can be incredibly supportive. And I'm grateful for all of the good experiences that I've had. So I encourage you to take that leap of faith and show up just once to some event and see how it goes for you. If you're already a community, part of a community, remember what it was like when you first showed up. Remember how scary that can be for people. Remember standing at the side of the room, not knowing where to go. And welcome these new people into your group. Help them join into your conversations because community is a group effort. And if you are a more active member, you can share your ideas by giving talks. Talk, shift how the group works. Talk, shift what is expected from this community. So pick topics that you are interested in because chances are other people will be interested as well. And if you're ready for that challenge, try leading. No matter where you start, even as that shy fourth grader, you can eventually get there and you can lead. If you don't think that you can come up with a topic, remember that you can be your own target audience. Run events for you, run whatever you're interested in because you're probably not a snowflake either. You can choose to lead because that makes you the best person for the job. If you're willing to step up, you get to make decisions, so go for it. And you can start small. You can even start with those tiny two-person groups, those coffee dates. You don't need to organize tons of people to run a useful event. I've learned a lot from my experiences with leading. I've learned from my fellow organizers and from my attendees. I've enjoyed all of these experiences, watching the community grow and seeing other people connect as well. I really encourage you to give leadership a try. As we break up for morning tea, please take a moment to connect with someone you haven't met before. You've got three days of networking, chatting, and learning ahead of you. How can you make the most from this time? And when you leave on Sunday, buzzing with these new ideas, consider how you can take them back to the communities where you come from. Through small leaps and pushing your boundaries, you can move past what held you back before. So connect, participate, and lead. Thank you.


While Mariah Carey has long owned a glamorous penthouse in Manhattan and rented a mega mansion at Bedford, New York during the pandemic, word is that she's bought herself some new real estate. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, Mariah's latest acquisition is a southern colonial style mansion spending 13,000 square feet of space that once was leased by Dwayne The Rock Johnson. With all of its luxury features including a massive white marble kitchen, movie theater and much more, it's fit for a queen like Mimi. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Mariah Carey is a singer, songwriter, record producer and actress who is best known for her five octave vocal range, unique singing style and signature use of the whistle register. Not to mention, she ranks as the best-selling female artist of all time with over 200 million albums sold. Her net worth is currently pegged at an estimated $320 million, a fortune which allows her to live in some exceptionally stunning paths, whether they're purchased or rented. Hey guys, it's Kara The Vampire Slayer back with another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment and this one, looking at Mariah Carey's new mansion and more. Don't forget to like, subscribe and hit me up on Instagram to chat and now let's get into this video. In May 2022, it was reported that Mariah had been spending Easter at her newly purchased home in Atlanta, Georgia, where it is that the songsters purchased the home for $5.65 million in an off-market deal in late 2021 and it has some other celebrity history. It was leased by Dwayne The Rock Johnson a couple of years back. Not to mention during his stay, he single-handedly ripped the mansion's massive raw iron driveway gates right off their brick pillars after the power went out and he was trapped on the property while cast and crew waited for him on set. Anyways, the Southern Colonial Style Mansion is located in the posh and exclusive neighborhood of Sandy Springs in Atlanta, situated on 4.2 acres of land with rolling lawns and trees for privacy. It also appears those front gates have been put back in place. Past the Hulking Gates, the grand property is fronted by an impressive driveway, stairs and stately pillars before you walk in the door. Interiors offer over 12,500 square feet of space along with 9 bedrooms, 8 full baths and 5 half baths. As you might expect, Mariah didn't move in without making some touches of her own and sprinkling her signature glitter about. She got rid of a ton of the over-the-top traditional wallpaper for a fresher look and added a pink and cream rug and glitzy pink chandelier in the double height entry way. Not to mention Mimi decked her master suite out with a tufted velvet headboard. Like the home being built in 1992, photos show that it's been transformed into a more contemporary space with a lot of bright white walls including in the main living room and the kitchen. The spacious living area offers high white ceilings, hardwood flooring, a fireplace and a mounted TV along with sets of French doors out to the mansion's grounds. The massive kitchen is another highlight of Mariah's mansion with its white marble theme including a massive marble center island offering up bar-style seats for about 10 guests. Here, there's also top-of-the-line appliances and a couple of prep areas. Other features in her Sandy Springs mansion include a premium home movie theater and mirror-walled gym. Aside from her velvet headboard, Mimi's master suite also boasts a separate sitting area, fireplace, and French doors while the attached bathroom is spacious enough to include a vanity area, separate shower and tub. Outside on the grounds, you'll find a swimming pool and pool house set in a private area amongst the trees as well as a roomy guest department with fireplace and elsewhere a children's playground. The grassy and rolling lawns in her property also have mature trees and greenery bordering all of it for extra seclusion. Of course, when Mariah is craving the hustle and bustle of the city, she can head over to her longtime Manhattan penthouse. She acquired this New York City property in 2000 for an unrecorded amount and it was done up to the 9s by decorator Mardov Wada before it was featured in Architectural Digest. Mariah purchased her lavish penthouse triplex in the Franklin Tower, a 17-story condo redevelopment that used to be a bank back in the 30s. Mariah lives in the famed Tribeca neighborhood and apparently the main penthouse alone cost her 5.5 million dollars. Then she went on to purchase the unit just below to combine them. While we don't know the exact amounts, it likely cost her about 10 million dollars not including the renovations. And let's not forget, she bought these years ago. Mariah's mansion-sized penthouse boasts nearly 13,000 square feet of space for beds and 4.5 baths right in the heart of Manhattan. When the place was custom designed, there were influences of art deco which the building's architecture also reflected. There are bronze limestone floors throughout and an opulent chandelier in the entry way, while the living room doors are decked out in silver leaf. Back in the day, Mariah showed off her apartment for MTV Cribs but she's definitely freshened things up since then. We also know that the singer loves her kitchen as she likes to entertain and cook. When she's not cooking up her signature pasta sauce, Mimi can retreat to her master's suite which has stunning city views and one of the most amazing closets ever. Her massive custom walk-in closet has room for any shoe, special outfit, or bag that you could imagine, and Mariah loves to put it all on display. Other features of Mariah's penthouse include a home movie theater with an aquarium on one of the walls and an under-the-sea vibe as well as a spacious rooftop terrace that would have any New Yorker jealous. There's an entire seating area outside as well as a hot tub overlooking city lights. Even when Mariah isn't purchasing homes, she even rents the most glamorous places. Take for instance during the pandemic when she rented out a crib for herself, her kids and her staff, located just about an hour outside of Manhattan in Bedford, New York. Located in an upscale gated enclave called Bedford Corners, this mansion last sold in 2021 for $4.8 million to a former Wall Street executive who spent a fortune turning the mansion into a high-tech heaven for the Uber wealthy. So we know the price tag to rent it would have been substantial. The home sat on over 5 acres of landscaped grounds with interiors boasting 10,500 square feet, six bedrooms, seven baths, four powder rooms and an elevator. Built in 2006, the stone accented manner was decked out recently with all the state of the art technology you could imagine, including a home automation system and a security system with over 20 cameras and a biometric keyless entry. Some of the grand living spaces here included the entryway with curving staircase, formal dining room and living room with shiny black marble fireplace and nook of windows. There was also a wood paneled library with light up bookcases and fireplace with carved line heads as well as a large sunny family room and gourmet kitchen. An extra basement level boasted a games room, media lounge with 900 gallon saltwater fish tank, light filled home gym and of course a theater with a web bar. Aside from the glamorous and epic bedrooms, especially the master suite, the impressive feature is continued outside. There were heated stone terraces, an outdoor shower, fire pit, sports court, gardens and much more. No doubt though, the main attraction back here was the one of a kind pool. The 90 foot long, a violin shaped swimming pool cost reported 1 million dollars to build containing 50,000 gallons of water and covered in about half a million glass tiles with light up fiber optic strands. The attached spa was part of the violin as the chin rests and the bow was made up of two koi ponds. Great to say Mimi and her crew enjoyed their time living here. Well, now we've checked out the homes of Mariah Carey including her latest real estate purchase, her new home in Sandy Springs, Georgia. After seeing a few of her homes past and present, which was your favorite? Be sure to let me know down in the comments. Thanks for tuning in! Don't forget to hit that subscribe button if you haven't, follow me on Instagram to chat and I'll see you all in another video. Bye!


Personal notice. Stanges my stock and trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you got a job for me, George Valentine. Write full details. It's time to batten down the hatches again, because here comes George Valentine. You must know George by now. He's the fella who makes trouble to keep you out of it. Now, perhaps that doesn't make too much sense, but after all, what does in this day and time? So I just want you to be content with the fact that this has let George do it and let the chips fall where they may. Dear Mr. Valentine, it's one thing to be the keeper of your brother, it's quite another to be the keeper of your brother-in-law, particularly one that you haven't met, that you don't want to meet, that you wish would stay in South America where he belongs and that shouldn't have married your sister in the first place. When my sister wrote that she was meeting a husband's ship here in town naturally, I insisted that they be my guests. But, Mr. Valentine, the price of hospitality seems to run high. No sooner had I put the welcome mat out than the word must have got round. The X must be on my doorstep, because now my house is being watched. I am being watched. Well, Mr. Valentine, I am not an excavation and I have no intention of letting brotherly love dig me into any sort of premature grave. Sincerely, Franklin J. Scott. Sit down, sit down. This is a lovely place, Mr. Scott. Thank you, Miss Brooks. It's been in the Scott family for years. Yes, I've heard of your family. Certainly not on the financial page. But you know, that was the difficulty when my sister married Sid Forrest. The social thing, I mean. Now, please understand, I'm not a snob. But she certainly made a peculiar choice. You see, she was back east the time. Yes, I think you mentioned that. Look, I'd really rather hear about your house being watched. No, no, no, wait. This comes first, Sid Forrest. Mary and Matt him in Saratoga, I think. He'd won a racehorse and a poker game and they spent their honeymoon watching it lose from then on. That will give you the general idea about him. It will. Oh, I've done my best to be sympathetic. Sent Mary and money every once in a while. I stood up against some of the other members of the family for them and I really had hopes of being justified when Sid went to Guiena. French Guiena. Little town called Jean-Cache it was. When was this? You mean he left your sister? No such luck. He left a couple of years ago to make something of himself in mining. Well, I don't think he did so well on money, but at least it's a try. And Mary and assures me he's coming back quite a different man. But you're not so sure that he's as reformed as she claims. This house watching before he gets here. Exactly. Mary and herself is arriving later on tonight. And you called me instead of the police because if your brother-in-law is mixed up in something irregular again you don't want publicity or the law around, huh? Now I know I hired the right man. Well, don't be too sure yet. You still haven't said a word about who's watching you. Why are you so afraid? Oh, here. That part's the easiest. Why? The man who watches. He's out there every night. At least the past three nights. Quiet now, I'll turn out the lights. Oh, I'll get them. Thank you. Who he is, that's your job. I tried to speak to him once, but he just walked past me. What's this? Side porch patio? Out this way. No, no, no, no, wait, wait. There. Where? Under the streetlight. Oh, yeah, yeah. There is a man there, all right. Well, he's not doing anything. Oh, no, he never does. The first night I'd gone out for a moment and left the house open. When I came back I saw him running away from the porch, but not a thing. It'd been tough. He's moving around in front. Come on. Mr. Scott, how do you know there's any connection between that man and your brother-in-law? Well, I know it seems far-fetched, but people in this climate don't usually wear some suits like that, do they? But down in French Vienna... There, wait a minute. Coming down the walk now. Well, Mr. Valentine, what do you think? I don't think anything.  I'm just a guy who likes to ask questions. George, be careful. Excuse me, friends. You got a light? What? Light. Here, have a cigarette. Oh, no, no, thank you. Hey, wait a minute. I'm sorry. Slow down, bustard. Get away from me. Not tonight. That's better. Didn't do anything. Did you get him? Now, hang on to him. Take it easy now. He's not going any place. Who are you? I... I'm sorry. Oh, like that, huh? Please, let me go. The lady asked you a question. I'm sorry, I said. Why? You said yourself you didn't do anything. No, no, let me go. What are you doing here, watching this house? I don't know. I haven't been. Oh, busty, you're wasting our time. No, get away from me. Please don't. Come on, come on. Empty the pockets. Yes, Scott, grab that. I've got it. There's nothing in his coat. Just a scrap of paper. Uh-huh. And a calling card. An old beat-up calling card. Yeah, the paper has your address printed on it, Mr. Scott. Huh? Let me see. Address, and that's all. Oh, you're hurting my arm. I won't try to get away. Okay, now you're getting smart. What's on the calling card, Mr. Scott? Um, uh, Mr. Jack McDonnell, Rue, Dalvasole, Jean-Cache, French, Vienna. All right, is that you, Jack McDonnell? No. No, please, I... Don't know. Buster, you said that once too many times. George, wait. Look at him. He looks sick. Okay, now for the last time, who are you? I'm sorry, I... I just don't know. Now, I wonder what's the matter with Junior.  Well, whatever's the cause, we'll find out in just a moment. Now let's get back to George Valentine and the boy who lost his memory. Loss of memory? I don't believe it. Take it easy, take it easy. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Oh, any luck with the cable brand, Brooksy? No, not yet, but a man at Western Union looked up the address for me. He says something called McDonald Brothers Limited practically owns the town of Jean-Cache, so we'll get the answer all right. French, Vienna, have you ever heard of it? No, no, I don't think so. Just what do you remember, friend? That address in my pocket, it seemed to mean something. Where did you get it? I remember walking up here from the waterfront. Waterfront? I mean three days ago. I remember the past three days, all right. There was something about a fight, I think. But I don't know, I don't know. All right, relax, relax. We're just trying to help you. So maybe you got in a fight and got knocked on the head, huh? Maybe, yes. For instance, you've got a suit on, but just a t-shirt underneath. What do you mean, Valentine? Greasy hands, George. Yeah, all cracked and bruised. I'm sorry, sorry. So maybe you work around the waterfront. Is that check? Well, well, sure. Only this kind of suit. Oh, John Cash, Don Genner. The waterfront is John Cash. Or he works aboard a ship with a... Yeah, hold on. I'll get it, George. Hello. I'm causing a lot of trouble. Oh, yes. Stay here. What do you want? Western Union Angel. Any luck? Wait a minute, George. All right, thanks very much. That's one lead gone down the drain. What do you mean? He's not the man whose card he had, the big shot, Don and Genner. Jack McDonald. Why not? Mr. McDonald committed suicide over six weeks ago. George, anything new? Oh, I'm doing about as well as you did, Angel. Well, what's that? A friend of mine on a newspaper is checking ship arrivals. Our mental laps here says he never heard of your brother-in-law, Sid Forrest. Well, I don't know that I haven't. But maybe Sid will remember him, check. Oh, you mean just keep this man until Sid gets here and... But wait, Valentine. I don't even know the name of Sid's ship. I know. I just asked your sister. Right? Yes, Marion should be calling from the airport. But... What'd you say? She's out on the hall right now. That's what I came to tell you. Brooks, you stay here with Mr. Rex, will you? Sure, George. Marion, here for heaven's sakes. Why didn't you call? What in the name of him? Franklin, darling. Hello, Marion.  Oh, don't be so stuffy. Where did I slide out from under this hat? There. Mr. Ambler met me and dropped me off here.  Now, stop it. Ambler? Who's Ambler? A friend of mine. He's handled some of my business things. Can't your little sister have a few friends if she... Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Valentine. You've got somebody waiting on the phone, haven't you? Yes, if you don't mind. Oh, my purse. I wrote that name down somewhere. I sent Sidney your address by radio, Franklin, just a few days ago. A golden something, I know. A freighter. Hello, John Stiller. Try the list of freighters. A golden something, rather. I thought I had it, but... Franklin, what's going on? Who's Mr. Valentine? No, no, no. Nothing to worry about. Just checking when Sidney will be in. That's all. Oh, they never seem to know, I guess. He warned me about freighter schedules. Golden Drake. Is that the one? Yes. Yes, that's right. Golden Drake. Yeah. Okay, thanks, John. What? What's the matter? When did you hear from your husband, Mrs. Forrest? Well, he sent me an airmail a couple of weeks ago. What are you driving at, Valentine? Well, that's the right ship, all right. I only wanted to touch a John Cash the past month. Only the Golden Drake is already in. It docked here three days ago. What? I don't understand. Sidney wrote... Where is he? Franklin, hasn't Sidney gotten in touch with you? Just a minute, please. Mr. Scott, you told me you'd never met your brother-in-law, right? Well, yes. Or seen him, or seen his picture? Please, both of you. No, no, no. I haven't. Just a moment. What's happened? A man in suit has been a John Cash.  Oh, for heaven's sakes, of course. It's obvious. For the last time, what are you talking about? Come on, Mrs. Forrest. Isn't that ridiculous? It never even occurred to me. Sidney, of course, right in here, Marion. Sidney's already here. He's... He's... Where? Hello, ma'am. Isn't that man... Him? Don't be silly. I've never seen him before in my life. Mr. Valentine, where is Sidney? Will you please tell me what's happened to him? I don't know, Mrs. Forrest. I wish I did. Your husband seems to have disappeared. You are listening to Let George Do It. Our adventure will continue in just a minute. Back to George Valentine. You're hired because Mr. Scott is worried about a man watching his house, a man who doesn't know who he is or why he is there. He's carrying the card of Jack McDonald's, but Mr. McDonald committed suicide in South America nearly two months ago. Is he Mr. Scott's brother-in-law, Sidney Forrest? Well, now Mrs. Forrest is here, and she should know, and she says he isn't. So if your name is George Valentine, you decide the only way to solve this problem is to find Sid Forrest. And so you first tried the ship that supposedly brought him in three days ago. Golden Drake. It's not much, is it? Looks more like a tin duck. Yeah, come on, let's go aboard. What kind of a flag is that? Hurry up, Rooksy, before they swing that boom again. Flag? I don't know, a Panama, I think, something like that. Valentine. Lieutenant Johnson. What are you doing here? All right, all right, one at a time. My friends, you stand aboard a pirate ship. What did you say? An illegal, irregular, should have been sunk scowl. Oh, no, is that nice, Lieutenant?  Come on, Johnson, what's it all about? My friends meet Bluebeard himself. Captain Task, folks. Lieutenant, here's a little sore.  Wear off? Oh, no, it won't. Your ship's been in port three days, and he waits until half an hour to go to report a man overboard. I told you I had a cargo to worry about. I've been tied up by you birds before, and when you've got perishables aboard, you can't sit around waiting for ready. Hold it, hold it, please, please. What man overboard? Oh, passenger, that's all. I had a passenger this trip. A man named Sidney Forrest. Sid Forrest? There's nothing to raise the blow about. Committed suicide. That's all overboard. Suicide. You see, this is my own ship. I get my cargo ashore fast enough. Maybe I can barely pay off the bank. My guy's already dead. You can't help nothing by speeding up matters. Who says you're qualified to decide his death was a suicide? God was suicide, all right. Only now, with this stuff, you'll tell me about an amnesia case. Okay, then let's start from the beginning. What happened? Task barely saw Forrest, apparently. He stayed in his cabin all the time, right? Yeah, just about. All the way from Jean Cache, that's where he came aboard. Yes, we know. Well, Forrest and the ocean didn't get along too well, so he locked himself in. But he was a sick-looking guy to start out with. I wasn't really too surprised when I saw the note. Note what note? Wait a minute. Don't get ahead of yourself. There was a storm a couple of nights before they hit port. Yeah, that's right. I was on the bridge. Deck watch gave a yell. Said he saw a splash. I could see a man in the water. Got the ship turned. Got out the lights, but we couldn't find him again. Too rough to drop a boat, so that was it. All right, go on. Jose, the steward, he'd seen this thing, too. He was slipping a radiogram under Mr. Forrest's door a little later. I was down checking the crew to see who was missing. Anyway, Jose couldn't get an answer to a knock, so I broke in Forrest's cabin and found out he was missing. Come on in here, I'll show you. Is this his cabin? Yeah. I didn't touch anything. As soon as I got in port, I locked her up tight in a drum. Yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, this is the radiogram. His wife mentioned it, remember, Brooks? Yes. One giving her brother's address, Mr. Scott's. Here. This is a note you want to see. To whom it may concern, huh? Sitting just like that on the desk, it was. Same place. I knew better than to even open that before I got into port and had witness. Oh, you're the soul of cooperation, all right. Yeah. Typical suicide note, all right. His health, he said. Like I told you, the guy was kind of... Sure, sure, sure. Nothing wrong with a note. Only it's two suicides in only a couple of months. Yeah. And who says Sidney Forrest wrote that note? And Captain, I want to know how many members of your crew are ashore on what they look like. Huh? Well, none of them yet. Deck hands, at least. From the engine room? Oh, sure, engine crew's been ashore three days now. Engine crew. Remember his hands, George? Yeah, that's right. Captain, you're going with this Brooks to try and identify him. Hey, wait a minute, Valentine. Where are you going? Ambler. I think that was his name. A financial friend of Forrest's wife. Yeah, Johnson, I think it's about time we started checking everybody's story. Yes, I met her at the plane. Oh, good heavens, there's nothing wrong with that, is there? Okay, Mr. Ambler. I have known Mrs. Forrest for some time, helped with her investments. In fact, that's what I'm doing now. She asked me to. I have to run down to that boat, too. Uh-huh. Well, I checked with the government authorities.  That's right. Mail things on ahead. But there are papers with his personal baggage to be gone over. On the ship, yeah. Yeah. Well, shall we be going then? You know, I'm supposed to be in Seattle. I know this is very upsetting for Mrs. Forrest, but I can't let my own business slide. Oh, wait a minute, Mr. Ambler. These securities, bonds, property deeds. Did you know Mr. Forrest was supposed to be a failure? Who told you that? His brother-in-law, Mr. Scott. But Sid Forrest really did all right for himself down on John Cash, didn't he? Well, I don't really know the amount. It'll take me several months to dispose of everything for his wife, but, well, yes, he apparently struck it pretty rich. Uh-huh.  I've got something else to do. John Doe, John Doe. Is that any kind of a name? No, Lord. I don't know. I'm sorry. But you worked on the ship under that name. The captain definitely identified him, George. He signed on as an oiler at the last minute at John Cash. The chief engineer gave me that name. It happens all the time. Well, what's the matter with that? Where's your amnesia, friend? Well, I meant... Oh, skip it.  I don't know. You don't know. First, you prowl around watching a man's house. That's trespass, vagrancy, and a few other things. Then you sucker people into thinking that... Take it easy, Johnson. Take it easy. Yeah. You cable a full description and query to John Cash, didn't you? So we wait for an answer, that's all. Well, in the meantime, let's see. Sid Forrest locked himself in his cabin. Now, why luck? I don't know what you're talking about. To avoid somebody who was on the same ship? That'll be one obvious answer. Of course, George. Well, maybe he didn't avoid him, huh? The suicide note's genuine. It checks with Forrest's letters and things. You know, I'm interested in Sid Forrest's money. Forrest wasn't a very nice guy. And as I remember it, the town of John Cash was supposed to be owned by the McDonald outfit. What are you driving at, George? No, no, no. The cable will tell us. You remember about Jack McDonald? Oh, Johnson, guy who committed suicide down there? Yeah, that's right. Why don't you leave me alone? Jack McDonald, who had all the money in John Cash. McDonald Brothers, limited. That was the name of the company, wasn't it? I haven't done anything. Okay, never mind. There's the answer right now. Yeah, hello? Right, Sergeant. Let's have it. Yeah. All right, all right. My name is McDonald, but what of it? He was my brother, Jack McDonald. Sid Forrest swindled him out of the company. Was that why your brother committed suicide? Because of Forrest? Of course. Why else do you think of him? So you came after Forrest to kill him, didn't you? How do you expect me to answer a thing like... Okay, Sergeant, thanks. All right, McDonald. Johnson will have the answer. Johnson will what? That wasn't any cable. It was a Sergeant down on the ship. He found a thousand bucks. A thousand dollars? What? Underneath the rug in the captain's cabin. And incidentally, Jose the steward remembers not only saying the limp form of a man hit the water, but also admits it was somebody else standing at the rail who ducked out of sight. Just in case you're interested. So Forrest was murdered. This thing is a vicious circle. And now, what was our friend here saying about following Forrest for the purpose of avenging his brother? Now, wait a minute, Johnson. McDonald here was still looking for Forrest after he was dead. He couldn't have been the one. Motive and no motive. Okay, back to the ship we go. This case is upside down, I tell you. The further we get, the more complicated it is. I told Valentine, said Forrest wasn't any good lieutenant. Doesn't surprise me that a man would be after him for the sake of revenge. Never mind, Mr. Scott, please. So they got that steward in here, Johnson? He's down below. The Sergeant didn't want the captain to murder him for shooting his mouth off. I just wondered if this cabin was empty, that's all. Sure, sure, why? Well, let's put McDonald in here.  Good idea. Go on, go on, get in there. All right.  I didn't bring my slide rule. Well, it's always simpler to bet on a hunch than to get wound up figuring systems, isn't it? Tony, you don't win so often. Do if you've got a few clues in your pocket. George, whoever murdered Forrest had to be someone on this ship, right? Is that what you mean by adding it up? Of course, that's obvious. It certainly couldn't have been anybody ashore, could it? It could have been paid for by somebody ashore. What? Well, one task will do anything for money, and somebody's been paying them at least a thousand bucks worth. Well, you don't even know that this steward's testimony is true. Hold on a second. Hello there, Valentine. Say, your name's Ambler, isn't it? That's right. I got a few questions about money I'd like to ask you. Oh, wait, please, Johnson. What's the matter? Something new? Mr. Ambler, would you wait inside a minute in this cabin? Well, yes, of course. But don't make it too long. Well, Valentine? I was going to say that Mr. Forrest's money gives a motive to his wife.   Keep your eye on the clues, Johnson, and you don't have to get complicated at all. Huh?  It's all over. No. Who even says there's been a murder? George! Look out there. Put that down. Unless you don't get out of the way fast enough. McDonald! Hey, what's going on in here? Put that down. What in the name of the crazy fool? Cut it out, McDonald. All right, you ask for it?  That man's insane.  Meet Mr. Ambler. Sure, your brother-in-law. Only, I guess, his real name's Sidney Forrest. And he's still very much alive. Can he be Mr. Forrest? McDonald confirms it, doesn't he, Angel? So will Mrs. Forrest when we pin it down. But there was a murder or a suicide or... Well, there were witnesses. Not if everybody's alive and accounted for. Don't you get it, Angel? The captain was paid to help stage a man overboard disappearance, right? Sure, somebody saw something. Probably a bundler of clothes hitting the water, that's all. And who threw them? Probably Forrest himself. Oh. Then the captain hit him out in a different cabin and later on smuggled him ashore. All those other shenanigans have just been one frantic man's attempt to escape from another. In complications, don't worry. You because you've got a crystal ball. I'm telling you, I've got a clue. Stick around a minute, Angel. It's simple. Back to the conclusion of our Let George Do It adventure in just a minute. I guess McDonald is over it now, Mr. Scott. But he probably would have killed your brother-in-law if he hadn't called George and interfered. Hmm. Wouldn't have been much loss. Well, I guess Forrest thought he had McDonald off his trail when he stages his own disappearance from the ship. Then somehow he found out about McDonald watching your house, waiting for him. If Forrest thought if he confirmed it as a suicide, then McDonald would believe he was dead and go back to South America. That's the idea. And that was the clue. The suicide note was in his own handwriting, but it was written after his supposed death. How do you know that? Well, a radiogram from your sister was delivered to Forrest's cabin afterwards, remember? It told him the address of your house. How do you think McDonald learned about you or that address unless he broke into that cabin sometime later and saw that radiogram? Yes, that makes sense. And yet the suicide note was supposedly found sitting in plain sight and left there until today sealed. Well, if McDonald pried into the radiogram, why didn't he open the suicide note too? See what I mean? Therefore, the note wasn't there or probably even written until later. But Valentine, at least you'll admit it, was luck that Forrest turned out so conveniently to be posing as Mr. Ambler. Sure, I'll grant you. But if I were going to take on another identity in order to escape someone, I think I'd pose as somebody who could legitimately handle my own money, don't you? With your money, it wouldn't be a job worth having. All right, then, Angel, come on. You buy dinner for the three of us. Wait a minute, wait a minute. About my sister. Well, what about her? She wasn't really in on it. Her husband gave her a phony story. Oh, after he met her at the airport, she went along with calling him Mr. Ambler once. But no worry, when she finds out everything he did, that she'll be through with him. And this time for good. Sure, sure, I'll give you another reason. From now on, Sid Forrest is going to be so busy digging himself out of trouble with Johnson and the government of French Guiana and McDonald and his lawyers and all the other things. Yes, yes, of course. Thank you. Come on, I guess I'll buy the dinner. You have just heard the man from French Guiana, another Let George do an adventure. Robert Bailey has starred as George Valentine with Virginia Greg as Bruxy. David Victor and Jackson Gillis wrote the story with music by Eddie Dunstetter. Now this is yours truly inviting you to another visit with Valentine when you will again hear what happens when you Let George do it.


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Guys, today merch is out now. Very exciting. I will have the link in the description below for you guys to shop. Thank you, yay. Good morning, guys. Welcome to potentially a weekend in my life vlog. Guys, it is so backlit right now, but welcome to another vlog. I'm currently walking to meet Kit. She don't work out this morning. I'm going to her Pilates place that she loves, which is exciting. I have the weekend off, so I'm just hanging out with friends and I'm very, very excited. If you guys are new here, be sure to subscribe. I'll have merch linked down below that came out yesterday. So, guys, this is my wild Saturday night in New York. I was so exhausted. I'm staying home or in my hotel. Have the fireplace on. I just stored out to eat a leaf and that's the plan tonight. I feel really lame and I kept going back and forth on if I'm gonna regret staying in, but I come to New York often enough. But I am just absolutely so exhausted at me going out tonight and stuff when I plan to start at 9 a.m. It just, there's just no chance. I just need to stay in. I've had a really good day by myself, which is really what I needed, especially after recording that many episodes. It's just a lot. Anyways, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow, but it's a very chill little weekend in New York. Also, it's just really nice kind of being in a hotel by yourself for a while. Today's just been really, like, chill and cozy, so. Sunday, guys, welcome back to the vlog. Sorry I didn't really vlog much yesterday, like I said. Honestly, it was a good learning experience for me. We listened to my podcast episode that was last week I looped before with Paul Fishpin. We talked a lot about self-love and versus self-care and things like that. We also talked about shooting yourself, which I know Lauren Alyssa talks about too. He's a self-love coach, though. I was just so exhausted and I'm also way more introverted than I realized growing up. Janielle, Brooke, and I talked about this in the podcast because we all feel that way, I think, because I'm really outgoing and I can be loud, I was an expert. Anyways, with that being said, I just felt really guilty that I was in New York and all I wanted to do was just take the afternoon at night to just lay in bed in my hotel room, order room service, watch movies, just really chill and relax. And I felt really guilty, obviously, because I'm in New York. But one, obviously I'm paying for all of this. And two, I do come to New York really frequently, especially now, I've been coming here all the time. And I've always wanted a day where I'm in a hotel, like, ordering room service, and watching movies and stuff. I actually watched, he's all that with Alyssa Ray, I thought it was really cute. I just need to know who did the wardrobe in that movie. Also, practically speaking, I need to know how much money they made off grand endorsements in that because I swear to God that for the first five minutes, I had bought it like 17. Anyways, it's one of those cute, cheesy movies, you know? And then I was thinking, like, I don't wanna hate myself for being lame when I could see my friends and I'm not with all the time, even though I'm gonna see a lot of them in three weeks. But I just knew that I was so wiped that I needed to just stay in. I also think it is equally as important to be able to, like, spend time by yourself and actually love traveling alone for that reason. And my bare minerals, complexion, rescue, Keaton posted about this and I bought it. Speaking of, it's Keaton's birthday right now. I'm birthday Keaton. This is like the one thing I applied with my hands, like, is that bad? I was just shitting myself and making myself feel really guilty when I was just listening to my body. That's what I was doing. You're not late for doing what you feel like you should do and no one's thinking that of you. And honestly, it was a really good time. I'm really over-explaining that. Today, it's a pretty chill Sunday. This is a really chill weekend in New York. Normally, when I'm here, it's just like go, go, go and see everybody. But now that I come more often, now that I come, like, a lot more often too, I don't really feel that way anymore. Some of my friends from college actually, they're actually married to each other. Are from New York and they just happened to be here for a few weeks right now. So they're actually about to come and pick me up and then we're gonna go after this. The only thing I have planned today is I know I'm getting dinner with the year of ours team tonight because they're also in New York, so I'm just meeting up with, at least I know it's Eleanor. There's just something about a more relaxed weekend in New York, though, that I'm really loving. Loving that for me, really learning so much about myself, guys. Don't get me wrong, like if I need to go, go, go and have like a really crazy, packed whatever, I can do it. I mean, I did it this week. I can do that for sure, but like something about a slow weekend in New York, where you don't really have that many obligations, which is what I wanted, is just incredible, guys. All right, guys, so I just left seeing my friends in college. Catching up with my friends, which is great. It's like my airplanes are falling out. At literally all times, I'm shopping in Soho. I think I'm actually gonna go see Danny and Ryan in like an hour or so. I really actually think I might walk over to Bleecker because I really wanna go to the last line and I haven't been to the New York store. So I think that's my plan. I'm also listening to Maddie's Book Club podcast episode on O-Case This. As I walk and shop, I mean, this is the dream. Guys, I love the daily edit. We're going in. I haven't ever been into a store, I've seen stuff in stores, but this is exciting. Guys, we're finally here. I'm so excited. Like the stuff is just literally perfect. The branding is fun. Just walking through the streets of New York, like this is actually magical. Guys, if I move here for like a short period of time, even just a month, what month should I do it? Preferably, obviously not the holidays, even though that's a beautiful time, but like snow and family, you know?  So beautiful. I wish I was a multi, multi, multi millionaire and owned one of these, but you know, here we are. Okay, I'm still walking around. This is definitely my favorite area of New York, but I'm gonna go over to Janny's in probably like 20 minutes because Ryan is here and I can finally meet him. I can't believe I haven't met him, but they weren't dating when I visited her college and then it's been COVID. So, haven't met him, very exciting. And then we're just gonna chill for a little bit. We're all really tired and don't really wanna do anything. I think I might pick up like a smoothie or a juice or something. What's the name of the country? I'm sitting outside and I'm drinking my Joan the juice. I got the Pick Me Up, which I normally get the green tonic, but this one's actually really good. It's easier to drink than the green one. If you need like a good juice from here that isn't green and looks gross, this is good. It's very well done. Okay guys, here we are with the end on Ryan. I, no, I felt the same way. I asked, okay, like when do you think the cost had died? And it was literally like the 70s or the 80s. It feels like the 15th century. Like I just, something about that feels wrong. Like BC, like 80s. Ryan like knew the answer, but it's fine. Yeah. I mean, it's fine. 19 century, 1900s. Yeah. Years for me, I've never been good at that. Like even like- It just won off. Yeah. I know that, but sometimes like, I don't even know how to. I just think cost out old. And that is cool. Old. Old. Yeah, it's crazy. Wow, go cost out, it's amazing. Well as you saw, okay, my Uber is currently five minutes away. I just called a car and I came back here. I changed. I spent the whole day around New York. I'm wearing this from Princess Polly and then just some sneakers, some lip gloss and throw my hair back. Thank God these came back because I genuinely like don't know what I would do. Today was such a good Sunday. I got breakfast as you saw. I like brunch with some friends from college. I'm just gonna, you know, hope for the best with this. No mirror, it's fine. Then I just shopped around Soho myself and then I just walked down Bleecker and like I am so obsessed with that area. Actually, I think I'm just obsessed with West Village. Then I went and stopped by Danielle's. So anyways, I hung out with Danielle and Ryan and what a guy. I love him. I will say like my friends are dating like really incredible guys right now. They love Brandon as we know. I'm putting lip gloss on to put that mask on. I'm thinking after being with all my friends and my boyfriends this week, like maybe I'll go back to dating. As we know, I was taking a break and I keep extending it but I think like maybe I should do that. Jackie told me that I should be on hinge. I don't know. I mean, I can tell I'm not serious about it though because if I was taught if I'm talking about it in a vlog I'm not serious about it because I'm like way more whatever we thought stuff. Anyways, I'm going to dinner right now with Eleanor from U of R which is like my favorite athlete or athletic wear brand. As you guys know, I wear it all the time. I have my mask, here's my outfit. Here we are. I think the U of R's team is here. I don't know. Like they're here for the weekend. I don't know. She was told me to meet her at this restaurant. So we're off. I want a nice little drink and some food. I'm stressed. It's Monday. It is my last blue bottle of the week which is really sad. I just packed all my stuff. I'm importing some footage and everything so I can start editing on my flight. The first vlog of vlogging went up. This is what I'm currently wearing. This crew neck that I think is so cute is from, I think it's sister and seeker. It's where the blazer is from. I really, really like their clothes. I made an order a few weeks ago. I just think it's so cute. Just have some beige sweats on. My Yeezy's, my mask. I'm actually listening to ArmTracks right now. Jess's favorite Formula One racer because she's really getting me into it. I'm gonna watch an epic series. We're gonna go to Austin. It's gonna be very exciting. That's in October. Anyways, I'm off. I think I might get the waffle of blue bottle. All right, so they didn't have oat milk this morning. They were all out. So I got the New Orleans with almond milk. Like I'm not kidding. I've been to blue bottle probably a hundred times and I always get New Orleans with oat milk. So that's my normal order. They don't have like waffles or like real food at this location. So I just got a little pound cake. I'll probably have to unfortunately get something at the airport. Having my morning coffee. I'm gonna leave my hotel at 11, so about an hour. It is so humid out right now. Like I will show you a clip really quick. Like that's what my camera was at first. Normally, whenever I leave any sort of trip and I normally don't do trips over like five days and this one was like six nights, I'm always ready to go and ready to back to Texas, ready. I really miss my dogs. That's why I really, really wanna go. I am actually like sad to be leaving and I normally, it doesn't matter how much I love the city. I normally am like really excited to get back and get home. And maybe it's the fact that next week is Labor Day weekend and we don't have plans and it's gonna take another underwhelming holiday weekend. It's not even that I don't wanna leave that bad. It's just that I wanna leave here the least. You know, I really do want to do like a month in New York. Probably in like a spring time because I wouldn't wanna do it during the holidays. But, oh wow. It's actually really good with all the though. Anyways, I travel here a lot. That's what I'm saying, but I am sad to be leaving and maybe that's just because Danielle just moved here. I don't know, it is sad and I miss my friends. But we're going back to Texas and I'm done with the dogs today which I really, really miss them. So anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this vlog week. Thank you so much for watching. Let me know if you guys like vlog weeks, if you'd rather just have a week in my life vlog. Oh my God, I'm losing my voice. I'm actually surprised that it was my voice this week. But anyways, hope you guys enjoyed. Be sure to subscribe. I'll see you soon. I was thinking about this on the way here. I know that everyone has to know all the colors. I would never in a million years be able to memorize all those names in different colors. I actually was thinking that wasn't leachy. I think that's smoke. No, that is leachy. Is it brand new? Did you just get it?