Today we see which mystery box is better, the old mystery box, or the new one. Or maybe we just see which one's worse, because they both suck. What's up guys, we're back with another epic video. We have one of the most recent mystery power boxes, and then the challenger, the newest mystery box. There's only two packs in here, so he's got reinforcements. He's got three mystery gems, so they're combining forces to face off with the old mystery power box. But first we have a giveaway. Everything pulled in this opening will be part of the giveaway, so all you have to do is like this video, subscribe, turn on notifications, let me know what you think will win the newer mystery boxes, or the old new mystery box. Today we're gonna start off with the challengers because they're kind of pathetic. Let's just start off with them. Let's see if we can pull something good, because when I opened these previously, they kind of sucked. And I hope that that's not the case for good. Hopefully, you know, maybe that was just an unlucky batch. Let's see if this one will be a little better mystery gems. Will you have something besides legendary collection promos? All right, so I think the only one we don't have is Dark Magician, or haven't pulled yet. So, okay, cool, fun, not really. Let's just, let's go to another one of these. Then we'll go to the other new mystery box. These are very strange, these mystery gem boxes.  Uh, obelisk, the tormentor. So at least the God cards are cool. I mean, I guess those are cool, but I don't know. They graded a bunch of bolt cards and yeah, they put them in boxes for $10. So nice, switcher bargain, I'm proper nice as well. All right, this one, if you guys have seen my other video the other day, go check that out if you missed it. This one is a thick one. So I didn't even notice this when I picked this out to be in this video, but the thick one before had a special edition in it, so I have like four packs instead of two. Let's hope that that's the case this time. And also, these Player's Choice sleeves are nice. They're not like the crappy ones. They actually fit your cards, which is pretty cool. So that's definitely the biggest bonus of these. Let's see if we can, uh, yep, this feels like a special edition. First, let's get the packs or the sleeves out. Very nice. Those are the good ones. And then we have a pack, which is Invasion of Chaos. That's nice. And then we have Dark Neostorm. So this is the best possible showing for one of these boxes. So that's good for the battle. So obviously we got to open the European Special Edition here, which is kind of funny. If you guys have not seen when I opened every special edition, go check that video out. It's like an hour and a half, almost two hours long. So if you like long videos, that's the video for you. Can we pull Fusion Destiny? Last time in the other video, I was like, can we pull Fusion Destiny? We immediately pulled it. So let's see if we can actually do that this time. I'd be down. We got the snowman effect. We got the stand in. Dice it. These are so, like, shiny. They all look like foils. Assault mode zero. Magical, musty, croaky crown. The Solomon Great Phenic. Dino wrestler. And my Myakashi winter. The Myakashi, all right. Myakashis are cool. But that's not a very good card or at least not a great, you know, value card. Let's continue. Not great value. Like actually great value. And I can crack down. I just ruined it. Not great value like like in Walmart or something. That's what that's what I was trying to say. And I ruined the pack trick. Okay, continuing on. Let's do three from the back this time. Not four because we ruined it and got a crack down, which is actually not a bad card. We'll take that. Gokie the solid ogre. We got a dino wrestler. Loud cloud. Puzzle Amino. We got the alter guy's haunted rock. Dino wrestler. Cola slot. And extra hero with the destiny hero dominance. Very, very cool. Actually, you know what? Invasion of chaos is going after the mystery gym. We're going to go mystery gym. Then Invasion of chaos because so far I think that if we go by one dollar cards, I think so far they've scored zero. They have zero dollars. So the other mystery box has to pull one dollar worth something over one dollar. Let's see about this. I guess technically these mystery gym cards might actually be worth something on eBay. I doubt it because they're everywhere now, but maybe over a dollar for these. We did get a wing dragon raw. Okay, pretty cool. We almost got the whole seven in its life for them. Okay. Invasion of chaos. Come on. Your side needs some points. Your side needs something because so far it is pretty rough. Let's do like that for Invasion of chaos. Can we get a chaos in per dragon? Let's go. We got a dawn turtle. Tower of Babel. We got the fiend's hand mirror. Dimension distortion. Spirit of the pot of greed. Giga gaga Gigo. The ultra evolution pill and anti aircraft flower. That's not going to work. Okay. Final box. So yeah, we need to pull something for you guys because this is all the giveaway. We got to pull at least something interesting. I mean, you get the Grady cards, which is cool, I guess, but it seems like they're everywhere at this point. They're not exactly exclusive. So let's get something actually cool for you guys. The sleeves actually are probably pretty exciting for a lot of you guys. All right, let's go. Let's pull something good out of the old mystery box, which we always doubted the Figa packs. Wait, we've got a blister here. All right. We have Oh, fist of the gadgets. How awesome. Here's the thing though. There are a couple cards worth something in this set. So let's see if we can pull them. Let's see. We got to get the elephant green gadget. Oh, I messed it up. Fire Formation Tinky. That's actually one of the better cards. Think it's like a dollar. So I'll watch a look at that. It's something a dollar would probably win them this battle. So they might have just won a fist of the gadgets. Let's go in a fist of the gadgets too. Let's just get these over with. Let's get to the exciting part. We have brotherhood of the fire fist. We've got the starving venom fusion dragon. Boom. Money card right there at three or four bucks. Gadget, talk back Lancer and brotherhood of the fire fist peacock. The peacock is not that great, but we did get a starving venom fusion. That's pretty big. This battle may officially already be over. Here's the deck. What deck is it? Ooh, extra hero dread decimator. That's not bad. So a sealed deck. Well, sort of sealed. I mean, I don't know if you can call that sealed anymore, but a deck. Okay. If you want to actually play the game, which is fun. I recommend it. All right. Now let's get to the exciting part. There might be another fist of the gadgets in here. Oh, nope. No. Okay. Flames of destruction. This will be the time I pull cold buyer imperme. I guarantee it. Watch this. It's about to happen. I'm guaranteeing it. I'm predicting it. All right. Manifesting it for you guys. Crystal master. Get the waking the demon cool or the dragon. I should say watch cat. We get the middle chief for a start the watch cat. Wait again. Okay. The Nalu. Oh, this is super rare. That came up a lot earlier than I expected. Okay. That's not too exciting. Not too crazy. But we still got a couple items left in this battle. Oh, okay. We got something different out of this box. A duelist alliance. Let's go a different pack for crying out loud. Finally. Duelist alliance. Let's go. We have should all hedgehog. You could get some ultimate rears in here or a ghost shirt. If we pull a ghost share for you guys, that'd be insane. So not it's happened before a lot recently. Actually for mobile hippo artifact glancia. Another good card. Okay. The yang zing prana battle guard rage. Metaphys armed dragon. The dogu and a guy of the midnight sun. Okay. Midnight sun. All right. But so cool. Artifact glancia is a common. It's nice and we got a blister left to blisters once fight. I guarantee it. Oh, oh, it's a mystery pack. Okay. We'll save that. And finally, what's the last one? Whoa. Fist of the gadgets blister. Whoo. They're really trolling us with these fight. Good blisters. That's okay. If I get to give us a starving venom fusion dragon and a 10 key, which is not really that bad overall. What will fight a gift to us? Come on. Give us something good. We have a sign at optimization code. Talker. The raster raster Liger. There we go. Latency and finally. 5 formation 10 key again. A second 10 key. That's not that bad. Honestly, pretty good for fire packs. Not a lot of good cards in there. We pulled one in every single pack and that leaves us with the final pack. The Yu-Gi-Oh mystery pack. It includes one booster pack and one rare. What will be inside? Will it be a legacy pack or will it be some garbage pack? We're about to find out. We have a tri gate wizard it seems and and invasion of chaos. That's pretty sick. Try gate wizard. So our second invasion of chaos pack in this opening and inside we could pull CED BLS dimension not dimension of cat well dimension fusion and then dark magician of chaos. I was about to say dimension of chaos. That is not the right thing. It sounds like a Yu-Gi-Oh card though. Honestly, it probably is dimension of cat. No, wait, that's it. That's a set. Okay. I'm just confusing myself now. Okay. Everything's been made in Yu-Gi-Oh. Everything has a name at this point. We've got a begon name. That's what it's telling me. You don't know your Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Get out of here. Chaos Sork. Very nice comment. So if you guys win this one, pretty cool. DD borderline or DD borderline. Gale Lizard. Chaos end. Can we pull a chaos emperor dragon? Let's do this. Terror King Salmon. We got the chaos necromancer chain disappearance and the next card reveal if we pull the secret rare and ultra rare something amazing. Put your luck in the comments guys. Here we go. Spatial collapse. Okay. Not that great. If you guys enjoyed these mystery box openings, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this. Shout out to CCG Trust, your cards, Toe & Phone Show, Tomato Juice, Stanley, Mike, Nance, Mimic, Gekko, Dexterity, Moosa, Junior Maring, Anantita Show, JT Show, David, FJ, Josh Evans, Clayton Fitzgerald, 87, John, Nolan, and Brett Palmer. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.


Welcom y toffi TV er is the Everton News Daily. Frank Llanparth has been speaking about some of the decisions made in Saturday's Merseyside draw with Liverpool. It's like Derby's draw. We're at Nillnil with Liverpool at Gooderson Park. The Blues put in an excellent performance. It could have won it, could have lost it, but for an outstanding display by Jordan Pickford as well. Everton and Evertonians felt they were on the harsh side of some of the VAR decisions that took place at the weekend. One of them was whether or not Virgil van Dijk should have received a red card for the late challenge on Amadou Omnana with about 20 minutes to go in the game. It's been looked at over the weekend. A lot of people have had their say and this is what Frank Llanparth thought about the challenge. Some talk before this Derby and other Derby's not that long ago recently about bad tackles and again I think people are going okay. What are the players, the ref just has a job to do and I just think they got that one wrong in my opinion. Interest in the money isn't it because it's whether or not you can look at it and argue the case of was it just lazy by van Dijk? Was it intentional I guess that's the difficulty with it but obviously in isolation when you look at it and certainly when you see the stills it looks like a bad challenge on Omnana. We've seen other instances where that kind of challenge has warranted a red card so we didn't get away with that one. We also had a goldish allow Conor Cody thought he'd give Everton the lead. We all thought it in the ground as well. It took a ridiculous amount of time to come to the decision that it wasn't a goal but Frank Llanparth was a little bit more philosophical about it. Let's be honest it should have stood. Conor Cody should have scored the winner, there you go. Moving on from that obviously Everton saw Neil Mawpike make his debut at the weekend. He had a fantastic opportunity to score on his debut to give Everton the lead. Other than that I thought he had decent game. It certainly showed what it looks like when you've got a proper striker in the team. It certainly looked a lot better and then obviously the attention then saying so when Dominic Halvert-Lewin is fit again and this is what the manager has to say about Dom. Yeah and Dominic's training next week. We hope the middle of next week so at that point then we have good options up front as a number nine. A Dominic type, a Neil Mawpike type. Obviously Dominic is a big player for us here. I've been able to experience him as much as I would want but I experienced one of the best days of my life when he headed that ball in last year. So we understand what he can bring to the team so once we hopefully get him fit and firing then our forward options look stronger naturally because he's an England striker. So there you go. The manager obviously confirming that Dominic Halvert-Lewin is back in training this week. Whether or not he'll be fit enough to make the squad for Arsenal. I don't know. Waiting to say on that one. Hopefully he will. Just to have him on the bench. I think it'll be a big booster as well. Just to have that option of bringing him on. Obviously the manager had also confirmed a change gone. I wasn't in the squad at the weekend just due to the fact that he hadn't trained enough. He's missed quite a bit of training at Manchester United and he'd only had one session with the team. So I imagine he'll have a good week this week and then will be certainly in the squad to make the trip to the Emirates on Sunday for a difficult game at Arsenal. And Adelaide de Coray as well is back in full training so expect him to be in the squad as well. As I haven't started to get a few more bodies back in and to make the squad look even stronger so you go on that one. David McAllager has tried his best to explain some of the decisions today when he does his ref watch.  One in particular, he obviously backed the referees. He backed the referees on every decision regardless of what they are. He certainly backed the yellow card for Virgil van Dijk so it wasn't a red. Talked about where the foot landed on the leg which is bizarre but there you go. That's the name of Gallagher. Why is all black as well? I don't know. Is he in mourning cos he's not a ref anymore? I'm not sure. But he was trying to explain the offside goal and the fella he was doing it with him has ended up laughing at him because he's just made himself look a divvior.  Talking about the reason why it wasn't given was because James Milner doesn't try to play the ball so he says it clearly hits Milner's foot and goes to Conor Cody. Which is obviously a change because at times they give that goal if it deflects. They say you can't be offside but he's saying it was offside because you've got to be in possession of the ball or you've got to actually play the ball. And when he was asked what was Milner doing then if he wasn't playing the ball he replied well he was trying to put a block in and when the presenter asked whether he's not trying to block the ball he didn't know what to say and everyone burst out laughing. So maybe a stand-up comedian might be next for them but I don't know cos he talks absolutely wham on that. And finally Evan had a couple of players on though make the debuts at their new clubs at the weekend. Lewis Warrington came on in the first half during Fleetwood Times one month's row at home to Wickham, made his debut there. And Portugiesma feel that Andre Gomez came on as a second half substitute for Leal in their 3-1 win at Montpellier. Good luck to both of them. There you go that is the news for today. 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Lux presents Hollywood. Lux's radio theater brings you Parabran, Robert Preston, and Ralph Delamy in The Fighting 69. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. The battle flags of many regiments are celebrated in American history, but there's none more famous than the brave banner of the 69th New York, the Fighting 69th of glorious memory. In 1861, in 1898, in 1917, they marched to war. The number of the regiment is different now, but it's the same Fighting 69th in spirit as they march in 1942. Our play tonight is a story of this regiment in the First World War, a play adapted from Warner Brothers' thrilling motion picture of the Fighting 69th. Heroes of fact as well as fiction are here, men like Father Duffy and Wild Bill Donovan. Our cast, I'm sure, will do them honor, Pat O'Brien and Robert Preston and Ralph Delamy. As Father Duffy, Pat O'Brien plays the same part he did on the screen. This is a story of men, tried by fire, a story of strength and courage and adventure, a drama of some of the men who've made America great and set the example their sons follow now. We think it's a timely play that will answer many of the letters we've received, like this one from Denver, which reads, This is my annual thank you note for the Lux Radio Theatre and for Lux Flakes. We haven't missed one of your performances in more than a year. Like everyone else, we're fond of comedies these days because we all need a chance to laugh. But there's another kind of play which makes a big hit with us, the dramas that make us proud we're Americans. Please give us all the good ones of this type you can find. You'll be interested to know that the Lux Flakes consumption is going up at our house because we're trying to make many things, particularly woollen things, last as long as we can. That sounds like a patriotic job for Lux Flakes, and I'm sure the fighting 69th is the kind of play she means. So here's the curtain going up on the first act, starring Pat O'Brien as Father Duffy, Robert Preston as Jerry Plunkett and Ralph Bellamy as Wild Bill Donovan. Back in April 1917, they said it would take a year for America to raise an army. Within three months, the first contingent of American troops reached the port of San Jose. Within a year, not only had a great army been raised, but 300,000 American fighting men had been landed on the soil of France. Among these was the pride of New York, the fighting 69th. They came from the factories, from the offices of New York City, from mansions on Fifth Avenue, from tenements on the east side. They were trained at Camp Mills, and there, as each new detail of stumbling rookies arrived, they were greeted by Major Donovan, known to the men as Wild Bill Donovan. You men are about to take the oath of allegiance to your country. To a regiment that in hard battle on many fields has earned the nickname the Fighting 69th. No man has ever let the regiment down, don't forget that. Now, repeat after me. I say your name. Do solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America, that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever, that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and that the officers are pointed over me. According to the rules and articles of war. Oh, help me God. Lieutenant, Major Donovan. Kindly inform the commanding officer my battalion is now up to strength. That's all. Detail! Hey, Jerry Plunkett, do solemnly swear I will bear faith and allegiance. Hey, what does that guy think we are, the ladies' aid society? What's hating you, mister? I joined his outfit to get a crank at the fritz. How to stand around taking boy scouts. Oh, you there. Rookie, step out. You talking to me? I ain't talking to myself. What's your name? Jerry Plunkett. What's yours? Quiet! Who told you you could talk? No, buddy. I've been doing it since I was two years old.   Very funny. He certainly is. A screamer. Quiet! What's your name? Sure, Sergeant. My name's Mike Murphy. Well, don't pass it to your mark, see? Detail or... Wait a minute! What did you say your name was? Mike Murphy, your wife's name. Murphy, huh? What were you born? I was born a boy. Let's come up with that. Hey, Murphy, don't argue. Grocer schlemiel. Airwest von Gurnicht. Busreste, as the Balabos. Nice for mine, gelt. Quiet! Okay, okay. What name were you born with? Me. Yeah, you. Murphy. Mr. Maskevet. Where'd you get the Murphy? I took it. You see, I wanted to go over with the fighting 69. I see. Okay, Mike, you'll do. Thank you.  Or you'll be peeling potatoes for the rest of your stress. God, why'd you big-eck me? What did you say? I said it was a nice day. Read the chart, soldier. My eyes are okay. Can you read the top line? Now, only the letters. I don't know what it means. Read it! Sure, sure. B for Brooklyn, Y for Yonkers, Q for Queens, H for Hollam, and X marks to Bronx. Private Plunkett, two shirts, O.D. size 17. I only wear a 15. Edge rink, riches, O.D. size 42. 42? What if it falls down on me? That's your problem. Next. Think you'll better. Don't go one and two far away after chow. Major Donovan's taking the battalion out on nice tactics with full pack. What, again? That's the second time this week. Stop beeping! He's trying to make soldiers out of you. It's more than I can do. Night tactics in this weather. Boy, that fixes us. You got a cigarette, soldier. Look, don't you ever buy your own? What for? No thanks. Say, you fellas, do you know how many guys has died of exposure on night tactics in the last ten years? You got a match or something. Hey, what's the good of going out in this dark? You can't see anything anyway. Ah, quit your crabbing plunkett. It's all part of the game. Yes, some game.   Ah, listen, flannel mouth, I'll say what I please. If you don't like it, you know it.  What's your matter here? Nothing. Well, break it up. Go on, plunkett feed it. Yeah, sure, sure. I see around sometimes, soldier. Listen, Frank, keep away from that loud mouth plunkett. He's a wrong soldier, savvy. I could take care of him. Never mind that. Stay clear of him. Hey, here's Father Duffy. Oh, hello, Father. Hello, Father Duffy. He's in, Father. Hello, boys. How are you? Hello, Tom. How's the missus? Expecting again, Father. I didn't ask her condition. I asked for her health. She's fine, Father. Eating, Father. Eating, Lieutenant. How's everything going? It's filling up, Father. Fourth Alabama's came in today. Yes, I saw them. Another couple of months you'll all be making history. Maybe quicker than you think. We'll need your prayers, Father. Now, when did an Irishman ever need prayers in a fight? What are you reading there, Lieutenant? The same book, Father. Poems of Joyce Kilmer. Oh, yes. By the way, did you ever get up the courage to talk to Kilmer? I've been intending to. Do you think he's mine? Mine. Uh, Joyce. Joyce, come here. Yes, Father. Corporal Kilmer, the Lieutenant has a favor to ask of you. Yes, sir. I, uh... Well, I wonder if you'd mind autographing this book for me. It's yours. I'll be very glad to, Lieutenant. Here's a pen, Joyce. Thank you. Let me see, Joyce, what you've written there. Yours and a common cause. There you are, Lieutenant. Thank you. You're quite welcome. Well, good night. Good night, Father. Good night, Father. Hey, Buddy, you got a match? A match? Yes, I think so, here. Hey, thanks, Buddy. I don't think I've met you yet. No? I only been around here about three months. My name's Plunkett, Jerry Plunkett. Smiling Jerry, they call me on account of my disposition. What's yours? Oh, I'm Fiery Frank, Duffy for short. Oh, Irish, huh? That's right. Yeah, me too. But I don't practice it. And I don't go for these flannel mounts always singing about Molly Malone, neither. I'm afraid you're in the wrong outfit, son. You see, this regimen has certain traditions. Oh, listen, don't give me that malacca. We both signed up for the same thing, didn't we?  Big shots with the world, our Ulster. Our what? Ulsters.  How'd you leave things in Brooklyn? Oh, swell. Say, how'd you know I was from Brooklyn? That was my third guess. Oh.  You steer me wise around here, Duffy, and you and me will get places. Now, look, a pal of mine's gonna give me a hot one in a fifth at Saratoga. Now, I'll slip it to you, and we'll both clean up. What do you say? Oh, thanks. I don't play the horses. Oh, no? Oh, that's too bad. Well, a guy who ain't a sucker for the ponies usually goes for the Danes. Now, look, I got a couple of telephone numbers, two blondes. What do you say you and me go AWOL tonight, huh? Well, uh, Jerry, my boy, I think I better tell you something. Hey, what's going on over there? I'm afraid it's a fight. Come on, Jerry, help me break it up. What for? You don't get medals for that kind of fightin'? Boy, hide it out. Hey, look at those suckers go through it. All right, boys, that's enough. That's enough. Break it up. Terrence, Patty, cut it out. Brian, get out of this. Come on, now. Stop it. Stop it! Come on! Break this up! Hey, look out, boys. It's Donovan. It's Major Donovan. Break this up. Break it up! Do you hear? You men go back to your ranks. Get back! Now, who started this ballet, Bruce? Come on, who started it? It's them Alabama boys, Major Donovan. They said they shot the pants off the 69th in the Civil War. We did, sir. You all right? You did. They did, Major? At the Battle of Fredericksburg, this outfit, the Fourth Alabama's broke up the charge of the 69th and stopped us in our tracks. Then they cheered their heads off because they respected a game enemy. Those men on both sides were Americans. They fought, then rose above their hatreds and became one people again. And that's as it should be. What do you think the whole nation's out of step with you? Our two regiments are now brigaded together. Their names have been changed. The 69th New York to the 165th United States Infantry. The Fourth Alabama to the 167th. They both form part of an organization that will represent every part and section of our country. The Rainbow Division. Every day, more are going to join us. Outfits from all over the country. But they're not coming here as Southerners or Easterners, Alaskans or New Englanders. There'll be no room in the rainbow for sectional feuds because now we're all one nation, one team, and all American team pulling together and known as the United States Army. Now if you've got to fight, where do we get overseas? You'll get a belly full of it then. Now get back to your lines and behave yourselves. Nice thing, Father, fighting with the boys, eh? Well, it's worth your life to break up a pack of battling Irish men. I'll look you up tonight, Father. Fine, Bill. Say, Father, you didn't get hurt, did you? Hurt. Sergeant, who'd hurt me? Well, Jerry, it was quite a brawl, wasn't it? So it's Father, huh? A priest. I suppose I'm just patsy dump-cluck, huh? Eh, my pal, just stringing me along. It's funny how a guy can't get away from you birds even in the Army. Well, maybe it's because the saints have their eyes on you, son. Don't give me that. I can look out for myself. Yes, I suppose you can. But if you ever do need me... Now listen hard, Carla, what's in for all? I don't need any pious fe... That's enough of that. Let me go. Go on, get out of here snapping at Father like that. Now, Sergeant, don't. Let me go. You've got to mind that. Chew you up and spit you out. Now go on, beat it.  Oh, come along, smiling, Jerry. Come on, now, get up, son. We'll see about getting that mud off your smiling face. What's some swaying into it? You're not dead yet? Heads up. Yet we're just muscle-bound, flat-footed and fed up. Outside of that, we're all right. And a lot that sleep, driver, cares whether we are or not. Clip down, Plunkett. Always crabbing. Cut it out. Listen, you're in the Army now. Yeah. You're in the Army now. You're not behind the bow. You'll never get rich. Close up there, you guys.  You'll get wild built down of a team game. You'll never get rich. This is the insignia of the rainbow division. Every color and the spectrum. Don't you like it? Oh, I do indeed. I was just thinking the boys in the 69th might like it better if it were all green. These companies are all present and accounted for. These companies are all present and accounted for. Find Lieutenant Rice. That's the way it outside broaders. Yes, sir. Another march tonight, Bill. Another march. Bill, don't you think you're a bit too hard on them? With all their night hikes and force marches? After all, they're not used to such a grind. Handle the military end of it, Father. You take care of their souls. I'm sorry, Bill. No, I'm sorry, Father. War is a business I know. I've seen what's going on over there. That's why I'm so hard on these men I've got to be. They'll be able to face what's coming later. These kids of mine are going up against veterans, schooled in three years of war. They've got to be able to out-and-dure and out-fight them. Not just be led in half-trained like sheep to the slaughter. Don't you think I've wanted to let up on them? I didn't dare. Had to think of the future. Well, now the future's here. I couldn't tell you this before. This isn't just a night hike, Father. This is it. You mean we're going over tonight? Yes. Give me your blessing, Father. Benedictio Deo. Honor of Attendance. Pontus of Philius. John of Supertape. Thank you, Father. In thine infinite mercy, grant unto me thy servant the wisdom to guide my young flock through the trials of war. O Father, they're so young.  Carrying so eagerly the bright sacrifice of their youth. Their need will be greater, Lord, than I'm weak. Therefore I beseech thee in the name of thy blessed Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant me strength to keep them strong and steadfast in the faith, in decency and courage, in the glory of God, their country and their regiment, in the bad times to come. And if in battle you see fit to gather them to your own protecting arms, I will be done. But let them die like men. Valiant. We'll return in just a moment for act two of the Fighting 69. During our brief intermission, we want to tell you how you can have a lovelier garden this summer at a trifling cost. You see, out here in Hollywood, waiting for you at the Luxe Garden Club, our three gorgeous, early flowering chrysanthemum plants. Not just cuttings, and they're yours for only 10 cents, and the opening tab from a large box of Luxe Flakes. Think of it. Three first quality chrysanthemum plants. They're worth a dollar. 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Marching men, fighting men. Tough guys, quiet guys. Big guys, little guys. Singing as they move up to the front. It's Christmas Eve. In the 69th Regiment headquarters, there's a meeting of the staff. The colonel bends low over his map. Our present orders are to march to Lunevee. Starting the day after Christmas. We'll probably see our first action very quickly. Think your supply train can keep up with us, Captain? It will, sir. If my men have to buy a plane, we'll probably see our first action very quickly. I think your supply train can keep up with us, Captain. It will, sir. If my men have to pull the wagons and carry the horses. Father Duffy, what about your midnight mass tonight? Everything's set, sir. Fine, a conversion of a few heathen. Present company, non-accepted. And facilities for the non-Catholics? All taken care of, sir. The Methodist chaplain has arranged a service for the Protestant lads. My friend, Mr. Murphy, built up a pulp. I've wired GHQ to send a minister to the Alabama. Another wire to Paris about the chaplain to the Illinois. You know, if some of the folks back home knew how well all of the different faiths got along together here, it would cause a scandal to many a pious mind. Pious mind. Pious mind. Pious mind. Pious mind. Pious mind. Pious mind. Pious mind. Pious mind. Pious mind. Hey, what did you find? Uh-oh, watch it. Lay off it, Father Duffy. Hello, Father. Hello, boys. How are you, Father? Fine, fine, how are you? Oh, Father, you gotta watch yourself in this climate. Uh, he's always got something wrong with him. Now, wait, wait. Maybe he's sick. He's getting a lot of the boys. First, your arms go to sleep. Yeah. That's it. They're asleep right now.  Yeah. Then the most fatal symptom, you get a light feeling in the head. Holy smoke, I got it. And that means you need exercise. And there's nothing in the world like pumping an organ at midnight mass. It'll make a new man. He's got to pump the organ. That's right, Mac. That's right. And you're going to sweep out the church. Oh. Hello, Jerry. Jerry, I'm talking to you. What's the matter, Jerry? Don't you hear well? Yeah, I hear you. You got a match, St. Francis? Get on your feet when an officer comes in the room. On your feet, I said.  Okay. Better. All right, boys. See you later. Stay here, Jerry. Come on, then. Outside. We've got plenty of things to do around this stuff, around this camp. Outside. Don't forget midnight mass, boys. Confessions this afternoon. Well, Jerry, my boy, you know, you're getting yourself so well-liked in this army, the men had rather machine-gunned you than they would the Germans.  Yeah, well, that's one man. It's everyone's opinion.  Well, gee, that's tough. You know it. I'm going to bust right out crying. Sit down a minute. I'll begin with, Jerry. I don't think you're such a tough guy as you'd like to think. You're only kidding yourself.  Yeah? Oh, I've seen a lot of life. And men, you're just plain lonesome, Jerry. That's all that matters with you. Me? Lonesome? That's rich. Oh, sure, sure, sure. I know. The boys don't need anybody to take care of themselves. But we've got some black days ahead of us. When a man will have a need of a friend, they can depend on it. Jerry, you've made no friends. None at all. And that's where I thought I might come in. We're going on the trenches right after Christmas. Yeah? You're not kidding me, are you? I said, that's great. Well, that's what we come over here for. And as soon as a better. Jerry, how long since you've been a confessional? Oh. Yeah, I figured you'd worm around to that sooner or later. Having midnight mass tonight. And Christmas isn't a bad time for any of us to sort of take stock and check up.  Why don't you join the boys tonight? Now, look, Chaplain, get this once and for all. I'm here to soldier, not to pray. I don't go for that holy Joe stuff. And there's no use trying to convert me. I'm not trying to convert you, Jerry. I'm only asking you to come back to your religion and recognize the fact of Almighty God. Well. All right. Merry Christmas. Been on a road since Tuesday. Keep moving. I don't know if I can keep this up. No, of course you can. Here, let me carry you. Oh, no, no. I just want you to feel better soon. There we are. Oh. Thanks, buddy. Hey, you're that port fellow, aren't you? Joyce Kilmer? Yes, I am. My name's Tim. Hiya. Hiya. My shoulders are killing me. I had those glasses packed.  My shoulders ached beneath my pack. Whoa, listen to that gunner. He's getting close to the war. My shoulders ached beneath my pack. Lie easier crossed upon his back. I wish I had to throw it away in my extra shoes. Carl's done rifle, but my fingers are froze. My rifle hand is stiff and numb.  From my pierced palms, red ribbons, rubs. Close up. What's the matter with you? Don't turn on your feet. Come on. Close up. Men shout at me who may not speak. Keep going. They think so, Sergeant. They scourge thy back and smoke, don't you? Say, soldier, what's that you're muttering? Huh? Oh. Well, it may turn out to be a prayer. Maybe only a poem. Keep them moving up there, Sergeant. Take them into the trenches. Oh, Father. Where's Father? I will indeed. The reserve area's back that way. Yes, I know. I saw it on the map. Well, look, Father, you've got to go back there. Regulations. Funny, you know, with all the firing going on, I seem to have lost my hearing, Bill.  No, no, no, Bill. Supposing some of the boys met with an accident. But no, to happen, you know. You wouldn't deny them the consolation of my matchless presence now, would you? As the priest said to the bishop, I only go to the races in case one of the jockeys falls off. Well, it's near enough. Come on, Bill. Look, you guys. This here thing's a trench, and we've got a good reason for building them this way. Keep off the fire and step until you get ordered. That probably won't be until morning. And one thing more. In that box over there, there's a lot of flares and the very pistols. They're to be used only if we're attacked during the night.  What's the matter, Sarge? You getting the wind up? There's always an empty job waiting for you in Paris, you know? Or is it just them stripes talking again? Maybe you ain't heard tell, soldier. There's a war on up here. Yeah, I read it in the papers. But I ain't seen it yet. If this is all there is to it, I don't see what them frogs is doing. If I were to, I'd keep my big gap shut about the frogs till I turn to fighting men's right to talk. Well, maybe you think I won't. Oh, my hero, huh? Would you be satisfied with a distinguished service card? Well, if I don't get it, it'll be because I got a wooden one. And if you don't believe me, you got a bet. Yeah, that guy hates himself. Now, that makes it unanimous. Now, don't forget what I said, man. Hey! Hey, you guys, what do you say we match to see who watches the baby and who sleeps? Nothing doing. We all watch the baby. Uh-huh. Some excitement, huh? Hey, I wonder what it looks like out there. Out where? Out there at No Man's Land. I think I'll take a look. Hey, listen, guy. The Sarge said to say all the firing stuff.  Holy smoke! You okay? Did you get hit like a snob? I don't think so. Hey, look what it did. Look at that dent in my helmet. Better there than in your head. I hardly see me. I couldn't see him. The load's behind us, dope. Yeah? Well, I'm gonna see him. Give me one of them flares.  Get out of my way.  You light up the whole train. Look out! Don't shoot that flare. Here it goes. I'll have better to see you with, honey.  Now, I get him. Get off! Stay down, man. They spotted us. Hey, give me a hand grenade. I can see him.  That's them. They spotted you. Stay alive. Hold it up. I got the range. Stay down. Hey. Hey, Polish. I... I've been hit. I've been grabbed. Lay him down. Don't let them hit him. Head to bed. Head to bed. Sergeant told you not to touch them flares. There's another guy got it. We can thank you for this. You're murdering these guys. Hey, listen. We gotta get out of here. Hey, where you are, pumpkin? I'm not dropping them right on us. Jerry. Jerry, what's the matter? Are you wounded? No. Listen, Father. Over there in the dugout. What is it, Jerry? I just saw him. I was going in the dugout and the shell hit him. They're very alive in there. Jerry, what were you doing in the dugout? You were on duty in the front line on the trenches. Who sent you back here? Nobody, Father. I come back myself. You see, I... Yes, Jerry. I do see. Indeed I do. There'll be a lot of boys that went up there with it, Jerry. He won't come back tomorrow. You'll be alive, but I wonder if he'll be glad. There, brave young spirits, hear the bugle sing. Go to sleep. Go to sleep. Slumber will with a shell screamed and fell. Let your rifles rest on the muddy floor. You will not need them anymore. Danger has passed. Now at last, go to sleep. And up to Heaven's doorway floats in the wood called the Rouge Bouquet, a delicate cloud of bugle notes that softly say farewell. Comrade's true, born a new peace to you. Your souls shall be where the heroes are, and your memory shall shine like the morning star. Brave and dear, shield us here. I'm getting rid of Plunkett and having him transferred to another regiment. He's a bad ag, a troublemaker, unreliable on the line. He's getting himself talked about in a way that 69th doesn't relish. They'll give the lad another chance. I happen to know he had a pretty bad shock up there. Yes, well it's finished him as a soldier. I've had nothing but complaints from his company commander on down. Picking fights behind the lines and dodging patrols when he's up there.  One excuse after another whenever there's a man's job to do. I don't have a man like that in this outfit. Bill, I don't want to interfere with discipline, but it's possible he has a good side too. If he has, we'll let him develop it somewhere else. My mind's made up. Bill, you're not being fair about this. You've got to give him a chance to redeem himself and make a man of himself. Bill, I've heard you say a hundred times. The 69th makes men. Well, it makes men out of cowards and never cowards out of men. Here's one time I can prove you're right. If you trust me and let him stay, I'll take full responsibility for him. I had blarneying tongue of yours. Don't know why I didn't let him send you home to collect funds for the Knights of Columbus. Well, maybe you wanted to save me the trouble of swimming back. What do you say, Bill? Did Jerry Plunkett stay? All right. All right, but he's your guinea pig from now on. Okay, fine. Oh, one more thing, Bill. I wonder if you'd okay providing two buses to take the Jewish boys back to the services at each. I'll take care of it, Father. It's a good thing we've no Mohammedans in the division, for I'd have no time for the war. Oh, Father, the rest of the boys are on their way up to the lines at Ork River. I kept Plunkett here.  Oh, I will indeed. I'll be on my way myself tonight. Huh? Who's that? Oh, relax. Don't take it easy. It's only Father Duffy making his parish rounds. Is it on your way up? Yeah. So am I. Suppose we go along together. Hey, look, Father, leave me alone, will you? All right, sir. No, no. I didn't mean that. You know, you're like the old Irishman who'd rather be quartered than lonesome. A little jumpy, are you? Well, we all are. The men in the offices, it's not easy for any of them. The offices? Grass hats? What have they got to be jumpy about? Some general right now is sitting in an office back there, sticking pins in a map. But me, I'm on that map. I know I'm there. Ducking in his shell holes and listening to the bullets rattling around my head. Figuring any minute, some heiny I can't even see is going to crack one into me. Yeah. Yeah, it's easy for the brass hat. He ain't here. Oh. This isn't a fight, I mean, Father. Gee, I love a fight, and I've never been afraid of anything in my whole life. But this stuff made me yellow. Me, of all the guys in the outfit, yellow. Scared is the word, Jerry, not yellow, and you'll get over it. Get over it? Everywhere I go and everything I do, I see the faces of all those guys I killed up there in a trench that night. Staring at me and saying nothing. I can't fight it anymore. I tried. Goes along for a while, everything's okay, and then... Suddenly it hits until I feel like, if I don't get up and run away, I'll go nuts. Now it's not for me to say that that's all nonsense, Jerry. It isn't. But there's only one way you can lick it. And that's through faith and prayer. Can faith stop bullets?  No, but faith and prayer can help you defeat the fear that's possessing you. Oh, Jerry, it's peace and courage I'm offering you. If you'd only open up your heart and take it. Look, Father, I'm going up to the front line. I don't pray up there, I hope. I haven't got faith in anything or anybody. I'm sorry, sir, there seems to be something wrong with the carburetor. Take you along to fix it? I don't think so, sir. I'll walk around a bit. Come on, Father, let's go. Is that somebody over there? Yes, sir, it is. How far is it to Peely Headquarters, do you know? Oh, I'd say about two kilometers, a little more or less. Who is that? Is that you, Father Duffy? Yes, it is. Well, good evening, Father. Nice to see you again. Thank you. It's fine to see you. On your way up to the front? Yes, I notice you are, too. 69th has done some fine work up there. We're very proud of them. I'd like to tell them you said that, if I may. I wish you would. I only wish I could tell it to some of the other boys. The boys, it won't be kept back. They were good soldiers, Father. They fought like good soldiers. They died that way. We're not forgetting them. I think that's all the tribute they'd want. But from now on, it's up to the rest of us, Father, to make certain they didn't give their lives in vain. Ready in a minute, sir. Well, good night, Father. Good luck. Good luck to you. Well, Jerry, remember the brass hats we were talking about? That was one of them. Yeah? Mm-hmm. Chief of staff. The looks of things, he's on the map, though, isn't he? He's been there a long time, Jerry. In the trenches, standing beside his men, over the top of them, a fighting man, Jerry, one of the best. They say he can spit nickels and chase Germans, as well as any dope boy in the whole Rainbow Division. What's his name? Douglas MacArthur. All for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. After a brief intermission, Mr. DeMille presents Pat O'Brien, Robert Preston and Ralph Bellamy in Act 3 of the Fighting 69. But now, Sally says... It's easy as pie. 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That's why so many millions of us always use LUX for all our washable dresses and blouses for under things and stockings. There's nothing better than LUX flakes for cutting down on stocking runs. Right, Sally. And you save the same way when you use LUX all around the house. Yes, to save your blankets, slip covers, curtains, bedspreads, to keep them fresh and new-looking and useful longer. And to save your hands. Stick to gentle, new-quick LUX for every soap and water job you have to do. Anything safe in plain water is safe in LUX. Now, Mr. DeMille returns to the microphone. Act three of the Fighting 69th, starring Pat O'Brien, Robert Preston, and Ralph Bellamy.  They're on the march again, the Fighting 69th, moving up under fire to the frontline trenches. Look at the father. There's nobody could lick him. They're moving into a tough spot now. The toughest we've been in yet. Bill, is it true you're going to attack when they aren't gone without artillery preparation? It is. Gonna give Fritz a little surprise. Bill, bye, Father. Bye, Bill. I'll be singing up there after you get underway. Oh, by the way, Bill, were you able to do anything for Jerry? No, nothing. Not even if I could. Bill, are you sure you're being fair? Look, Father, I gave him his chance at Oak River. You know what he did? He ran away. He deserted. It wasn't the first time either. It's gonna be the last. Yes, and if I hadn't asked you to transfer him, it might never have happened. It's my fault, Bill. I told the court marshal it was my fault. The boys shouldn't be executed for something he couldn't help. Father, let's not go into this again. Never in history has a 69th man disgraced his regiment the way he's done. He's been tried and sentenced. Tomorrow morning, he's got to take what's coming to him. God have mercy on his soul. Do you want this time, Father? Oh, I was just wondering, Jerry, if there was anything I could do for you. What can you do for me? This is Kirtan's, ain't it? Well, there's still time to make your peace. I don't stand there talking like a sap.  They're gonna shoot me. Tomorrow morning, I'd get it. If you're so anxious to help me do something about that. I'll try it, Jerry. Believe me, I've tried. I've gone to the Colonel, the general headquarters. It's no use. It's not my fault I couldn't take it, is it? Jerry, you're not the only one in the regiment whoever knew fear just happened. You couldn't face it, that's all. Hey, look, maybe you can still do something. Get me out of here. Help me to escape. I'll get home some way, and after the war, they'll forget all about me. No, Jerry. But why not?  They can't do anything to you. You're forgetting I'm a soldier as well as a priest. I see. Oh, Jerry, ask me anything else. I will. I'll ask you to beat it. You don't understand. He's one of the boys. I've been asking. What's his name, Doctor? Well, he keeps saying it's Murphy. Michael Murphy. Mike Murphy. Here he is. He's pretty far gone, Father. Father Duffy. Well, Mike, how do you feel, lad? I...I got a bad text more than a 77-shell to keep a good Irishman down. Father, could you say a prayer? I've got the book here. Mike, lad. That's a Jewish book you've done. Wouldn't you be wanting someone of your own faith? No time. Read, Father. You mean you want me to help you pray? Yes, Father. Read. Oh, Lord God, I know that my life and my death are in thy hands. May it be thy will to heal me. But if thou wilst my death, may it be atonement for all my sins. Into thy hands I entrust my spirit. Thou art my redeemer, Lord God of truth. The Lord shall reign forever and ever. Here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Yisrauel, Adonoi, Elohenu, Adonoi, O God, may they not be shelling a hospital now. They went away. They left me here. Come on, I'm taking you out. Jerry, you've looked in the face of death these past few hours, death by execution and death from shell fire. I am still alive. I can't let you stay here with this. You're free, Jerry, free of everything but yourself. I can't tell you what to do. I can only point out two roads to you. One to safety for a while, perhaps to home. It's fallen on your regimen, Jerry. There are your two ways. Whichever you choose, you'll have to walk alone. What do you mean, whichever I choose?  Goodbye, Father. Move this stuff off of me. Yeah, yeah, wait, wait. Don't try to move. I'll get you out. Here. You hurt? No, no. Down a little. Father, Father Duffy. Yes, here. Father, can you come to the hospital? There's been a direct hit. The wounded are getting panicky. Come along, Jerry. I may need you. I'll see you in any minute. I need me, Jerry. No, don't do it, Father. Come on outside. Boys. Boys, boys. This is Father Duffy. I'm here. Don't leave us, Father. Well, now aren't you ashamed of yourselves? Kicking up a fuss like this over a few shells. Timmy Lad, I'm surprised. You want Almighty God to take you for gotten them? Come on now, Sean. Buck up. Buck up, all of you. Believe me, I tell you everything is going to be all right. Now get hold of yourself. No prayer. Repeat after me. Our Father who art in heaven. Our Father who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses. And forgive us our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us. As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Deliver us from evil. There, boys. That's better now, isn't it? Jerry, my boy. Did I really hear you praying? Yes, Father. I believe in you now. Thank you, Father. And if it so be that he find it. Amen, I say to you. He rejoices more for that than for the 99 which went not astray. With all that wire around us, sir, we're cooked if we don't get through. We've got to get through. Once we get into that trench, we can finish the thing off. Here's a scrap that should satisfy even the fighting Irish, eh, Sergeant? Yeah, it's a fine bit of a scrimmage, sir.  Are all those Stokes mortars out of commission? Yes, sir, and the crews are all killed. Maybe there's one we could fix up somehow. Is that it, do it? Well, there's a mortar out there about 50 yards off the flank. Maybe I could have a look, sir. All right, go ahead, Sergeant. Take five minutes. I'll go and tell, sir. It'll be quicker. Sergeant! Take some minutes. I don't need them, sir. When I get this gun going, I'll blow the lot of you to kingdom come. Now I've got it. What are you doing out here? Don't get you around the wrong way.  Now shut up and show me how to use this mortar. What for? So you can turn it on the 69th and kill off a few more good men? Ah, listen, I know what you think of me and I know what I think of you. Never mind our own private scrap.  Now shut your big Irish trap and show me how to use this mortar. If you don't, I'll shove this bayonet right through you. Show me how to use it so I can't miss it. Well, there's nothing to it. Here. Put your hand on the fuse. Pull the pin. Drop it in. Yeah, I got it. Hey, these shelves don't look like so much. No. There's enough TNT in them to blow a lane in that wire as wide as Central Park. Now I'll tell you in a second. There's a kiss for you, heinie. There, that's the boy. Right on the nose.  You might have to make it to the soldier if you live long enough. Pipe down, slug. You did a fine job, man. We swarmed all over them through the hole you made. The hole? I made it. There's the man who did it, sir. He's been hurt there. Let's see him. Come on. Look up here, soldier. You did a fight. Jerry Plunkett. Yes, sir. Put a duffie. Get put a duffie. Look for you, haven't I? Put a duffie. Major Donovan, Jerry.  I'll tell him. He tells you to be dominant. I once thought this boy was a coward. November 11th, 1918. Then the great guns were silenced at last. Out of the gloom of doubt and despair, came the shining light of victory and peace. The boys came back with a quiet pride of fighting men who have fought hard and well. They marched home again. And there were others who marched with them. Not in body, but in spirit. The lost legion of American boys were they resting on the feet of a friend. Heavenly Father, here I beseech you the prayer of this America's lost generation. They loved life too, O Lord. It was as sweet to them as to the living of today. They accepted privation, wounds, and death that an ideal might live. Don't let it be forgotten, Father. Amid turmoil and angry passions, when all worthwhile things seem swept away, let the tired eyes of a troubled world rise up and see the shining citadel of which these young lives form the imperishable stone. America, citadel of freedom. May it stand always as a stronghold of justice and liberty for all the peoples of the earth. This side back is to Christ our Lord. For the curtain falls on tonight's play. In just a moment our stars will return to the microphone. This Lux Radio Theatre performance of the Fighting 69th has come to you tonight with the good wishes of the makers of Lux's play. Now, here's Mr. DeMille with the stars of our play. The Fighting 69th will live forever in the hearts of the American people. And in this theater, we'll remember the way Pat O'Brien, Robert Preston, and Ralph Bellamy told us the story tonight. Well, it was a great honor to have a part in it, CB. When I was in New York ten days ago, Pat, I made a little pilgrimage to Times Square for a special purpose. That's a fine statue of Father Duffy there, CB. He was an inspiring figure, Ralph. I'm sure he'd have liked the way Pat O'Brien played his part tonight. Thank you, CB. Two years ago, I had the privilege of placing a wreath at the foot of Father Duffy's statue. I think the audience would be interested in that telegram you received from another man who was concerned at the night's play, CB. I'll ask Ralph Bellamy to read it, Bob. He played the part of that man. It's addressed to Cecil B. DeMille, the Lux Radio Theatre Hollywood that reads, as one who had the privilege of serving with the 69th Regiment, I'm looking forward to hearing the broadcast. I deeply regret I cannot be with you in person, kindest regard, signed William J. Donovan. I had the pleasure of seeing Colonel Donovan at dinner less than two weeks ago. And since he's now handling a highly important assignment from the President of the United States, I think we understand why he can't be here. I've learned from Washington that tonight's play is being short-waved to American forces all over the world. So perhaps it's being heard by the fighting 69th of 1942 wherever they are. And I know all of them join us tonight from wherever they are in a salute to the man who was their Chief of Staff and became their divisional commander in France. That's the Rainbow Division, Pat? Yes, Bob. And the General I'm talking about, both named it and organized it. Right now, he's somewhere in Australia. General Douglas MacArthur. One of the things we can do to help him is to buy a stack of United States savings bonds. Get them at any bank, post office, or savings and loan association. Get those United States savings stamps. Almost any store or newspaper carrier boy has them. And the whole nation ought to have them. What's your play next week, CB? It's a play that I worked, ate, and slept with for more than a year, Pat. Northwest Mounted Police. A story of some of the world's most heroic men. And heading our cast will be three of the same stars you saw in the picture. Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, and Preston Foster. Gary plays a Texas Ranger who's tracking down an outlaw in Canada. He arrives during one of the most thrilling episodes in Canadian history. The time when 50 men may have saved a nation. And we are saving a reserved seat for you next Monday night, when Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, and Preston Foster star in Northwest Mounted Police. I'll say what CB did. It's a great picture. Good night. Good night, CB. Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night. When the Lux Radio Theatre presents Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, and Preston Foster in Northwest Mounted Police. This is Cecil B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood. Pat O'Brien appeared tonight through the courtesy of Columbia Pictures and is starring currently in their production Two Yanks in Trinidad. Robert Preston is now seen on the screen in Cecil B. DeMille's Paramount Technical Production Reap the Wild Wind. Ralph Bellamy is currently working in the picture Lady in a Jam at Universal. Third in tonight's play were Jack Mather, Charles Seale, Hans Conreed, Edward Marr, Tyler McVeigh, Arthur Gilmore, Leo Cleary, Edwin Maxx, Griff Barnett, Eric Rowe, Stanley Farrar, and Warren Ash. Tune in next Monday night to hear Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, and Preston Foster in Northwest Mounted Police. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers and your announcer has been Melville Roy. It's the Columbia Broadcasting System.


It sounds a lot like sociopathy, sociopathy. I don't even know if I can say it properly. It sounds a lot like you're a sociopath. And it's a lot, behaviors can be very linked together. And a lot of Aspies can be diagnosed wrongly as sociopaths and vice versa. And especially with narcissism as well, which is an inflated ego, which seems to be wrongly diagnosed with Asperges all too commonly. And these ways of interacting with people can be refined, and they can work, they do work, and they definitely work for me. I'm not saying that I manipulated anybody in any sort of sense. It's just I needed to understand things logically. And learning about those kind of things is very helpful in order to make up for the lack of inherent social skills that we lack in everyday situations. A good example would be the eye contact. So there's something that I read a very long time ago about the importance of the amount of eye contact that you have with someone that you're interested in. So that would be like 60% eye contact and then 40% looking away, 46% in, and then depending on the levels of intimacy you can scale it up and all those kind of things. This sounds a bit weird when talking to you about it, but it was very important to make up for those differences that I had and that we have. As we get older and going to about the age of 16, 17, 18, the differences between us and other people who are artistic are very, very in your face and apparent. Maybe not to other people, because there is a tendency in teaching autistic kids to learn body language and learn certain social skills that makers pass, which is basically passing the test of someone thinking that you are not autistic. And in general it does work and is one of the things that I'm pretty good at. I wouldn't say that it was a good thing when I was younger. I do think that we should celebrate our differences a lot more than we do, but obviously that has to be worked on in the long term. As well as the issues, we do start depending on how much we've thought about it and in how much research and cognitive thought we've put into it. We do start to understand emotions. I am starting to understand my emotions a lot more. I'm learning to attach certain events with emotions that I felt a lot of the time, events and emotions for us are very detached because events, logical piece of information, emotions, not logical, parts of our brain don't seem to make the connection. So a lot of the time when we're younger we just think we're feeling bad and all of this bad stuff is happening as well. But for some reason we can't make the link between them. Especially during our teenage years we even get to a point where we believe that the thought process that we have are flawed and that we've got a disease and a disability, which is hard to deny considering most people call it it is classified as a disability despite people's thoughts about it. We may even become at the mercy of our peers and their opinions and completely conform and not have a lot of self-esteem and a lot more shy than usual or we can go the opposite and think our thoughts are the only way of thinking and everyone else is silly and my thoughts are a lot more important than everybody else's. We still find it difficult to relate to things and it can make us feel alien a lot of times especially if we're in any down, down areas of our life and social talk can feel like we are some kind of sociopath to us and it can make us feel very uncomfortable in those kind of situations because sometimes it's hard to justify to yourself whether your reactions and your emotions and your interactions with other person is fake or real. It's very difficult to tell sometimes. We do learn all of it and all those facial expressions and contexts and stuff like that they get refined and we get better we truly do. Being autistic is almost like jumping into a Sims game and playing about having a character that is you where you can do and interact based on other things around you but it still feels like a Sims game and although you understand everything it doesn't make sense to you as your being so it can feel very alien and strange to us forever I guess. Some people try to give up feeling like an ex-people or being more like an alien during their life and going to sort of social isolation mode where they observe people around them and they confuse them. I like to think there's a better way and I feel that we are very highly related to each other very, very, very similar and that's the kind of things we need to be focusing on when we're talking about building bridges and getting people to interact and realise that they're not alone even though people might be more different and maybe a bit more different than everybody else and it doesn't mean that they're not human as well. Depending on the person they will reach a stage where they logically understand a lot of the world that they need to and they decide to kind of accept all the differences that we have and try and live with them. At our age the social training will start to finalise and we're beginning to reach the point of being able to talk to other people as well as they can with each other and then I guess that is the final passing I guess. Emotional sensitivity associated people is starting to become a lot more manageable it's still a lot more difficult but our mechanisms of solving those difficulties have improved a lot and their copingisms help us slot into society unnoticed by little autistic ninjas and some of the issues in our childhood are going to be a lot easier to accept move on with and solve as an adult and that's going to remove a lot of the issues that we may have collected going on into adulthood and also first of our autism. We become a lot better with the issue of change in people and emotions and just changing general events so we accept so we learn to accept and expect and change in everything and we're a lot more comfortable with it as well. Hatred of autism doesn't always diminish it always it always may exist if people don't really know about those ideas of neurodiversity but a lot of us change our minds and we learn about all these things and learn about the differences between ourselves and others and we learn that mental health is separate to autism and we can finally be comfortable with having the diagnosis of aspergys because we are aspergys we learn that everyone is different in their own way and whilst we can't relate to specific interpretations or ways of thinking the most important thing is to have positive and happy emotions with other human being by helping others to fully understand better ways finding a bridge between autistics and non neurodistics and non autistics by helping others to understand us better finding ways to bridge our ways of thinking we can make life for other autistics just a little better so I hope you enjoyed the video it took me a long time to write and although this is a specific example of an autistic it may not be indicative of every single autistic person although I think it is quite a good accurate representation of that but if I sit on myself it just may not resonate with everybody and that's okay if you have any more views or questions or whatever just remember to stick them in the comments because that's why I'm going to find them and that's why I'm going to answer them remember autistics are three times three times more likely to be bullied than a normal kid a lot more likely to develop mental health conditions specifically anxiety so like sassy we are also more likely to be isolated more likely to not have a job and a lot more likely to take their life this can be solved with the input for the aspies and aspies supporters in a society banding together to take on this issue and hopefully we'll be able to influence politics and the world and make living as an autistic in the future a lot better thank you all for listening I'll see you in the next video it must be so sad like I am so sad that it's over but don't worry there's going to be some more videos coming out for you guys so keep your ass peeled and hopefully there will be a little new video in the corner there depending on what time you're watching this or it might just be a random video from the past who knows make sure to ding that little bell make sure to subscribe I'll see you in the next video bye